Looking for an AI-powered website builder? Here's your best option in 2025

natrot/Getty Generative AI and web development seem tailor-made for each other. Web design combines coding, creative text, graphics, and overall design. These are all tasks that AI performs quite well. So when I set out to find the best AI-based website builders, I expected to see all of these capabilities wrapped around hosting dashboards. What I found was nothing close. Also: The best web hosting services: Expert tested and reviewed This article is the result of a six-month, 70-hour research project. Much of that time was spent wrangling hosting providers who claimed to offer AI, sending and replying to 236 emails, setting up test accounts, and trying to find evidence of AI capabilities in their services. I also built test sites using each of the services. To ensure each site faced an equal challenge, I decided to model them on a business called "Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective." There were design notes drawn from the Sherlock concept: consulting and private detective the ... Read full article.