The questions everyone asks.
Answered honestly.

Both. The brand is officially DesignSnipe (one word, capital D, capital S) — that's the wordmark on the logo and the URL: designsnipe.com. But it's frequently typed and spoken as "Design Snipe" (two words), and that spelling is correct as well. Either way you write it, it's the same product: an AI-powered website builder that drafts premium, custom websites in 10 minutes, with one-time pricing and full HTML export.

Every DesignSnipe site IS custom. You pick the design style, the colors, the fonts, the sections, the copy. With 200 palettes, 60 design styles, 200 type pairs, and AI-written content tuned to your industry — no two sites come out the same. The system is the toolkit. The choices are yours.

We automated what designers do manually. The AI writes your copy, picks photo placements, and applies premium design patterns hand-tuned per industry. You're not paying for less — you're paying for the efficiency of not having a six-week Slack thread with a designer.

Every site ships with semantic HTML, proper heading hierarchy, sitemap.xml, robots.txt, Open Graph tags, and structured data. The Professional plan includes a free AI-written SEO blog with articles structured for Google AND AI search results. Most $10k agency sites don't even include that.

Yes. You download pure HTML and CSS — no proprietary build step, no JavaScript framework, no vendor lock-in. Edit it in any code editor, drop it into WordPress, or hand it to a developer. No "upgrade to access your own files." You own everything, forever.

Come back, log in, edit your build. The builder remembers your work — every section, every choice, every line of copy. Re-export the HTML when you're happy. No new charge for re-downloading the same project.

Anywhere. The download is plain HTML/CSS, so it works on Shopify, WordPress, Webflow as a custom embed, Netlify, Vercel, GitHub Pages, your own server — anywhere that serves files. Or skip the setup and add DesignSnipe Hosting for $10/mo (see the next question) — we host it on our global CDN with free SSL and one-click custom-domain publish.

It's an optional managed-hosting add-on. For $10/month you get: a one-click publish from the builder to your own custom domain (yourdomain.com), automatic SSL via Let's Encrypt, global CDN delivery, and instant re-publish whenever you edit the site. Add it to any plan from your /account page, cancel anytime — your downloaded HTML files are still yours forever, hosting is purely a convenience layer.

No. Starter ($30, includes 1 page) and Professional ($100, includes 7 pages + free SEO blog) are one-time payments — add more pages to either at $5 each. You own your site forever and never get a recurring bill from us. Optional managed hosting and SEO services are monthly, but the website itself is yours outright.

Every section, every line of copy, every color is editable in the live preview. Click anything to swap it for a different variant or rewrite the text. The AI gives you a strong starting point — you keep what works and change what doesn't.

Most users have a first draft in under 5 minutes. Polishing and customizing usually takes another 30-60 minutes if you want every section perfect. Compared to 6-8 weeks with an agency, the math is hard to argue with.

Yes. Upload your logo, set your brand primary/secondary/accent colors, and drop in your own photos in any section. The AI uses real stock photography matched to your niche by default — you can replace any of them with your own with one click.

DesignSnipe's Starter plan at $30 one-time is the cheapest way to ship a real, custom-designed website that you actually own. There's no monthly fee, no platform lock-in, and you can add extra pages à la carte for $5 each — so a 4-page site is $45, a 7-page site is $60, and you can stop wherever you like. Cheaper than a single month of Wix Premium, and you keep the HTML files forever.

Build a new site on DesignSnipe (free, takes about 10 minutes), match your old copy and brand colors, then point your domain at the new HTML. Because the export is plain HTML/CSS/JS, you can host it anywhere — Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages, your own server, or even WordPress as a custom theme. No more monthly Wix/Squarespace bill, and you own the source files outright. See the side-by-sides at /vs/wix and /vs/squarespace for what changes.

DesignSnipe is the best AI website builder for small businesses that want a premium, custom-built site without a subscription. It drafts industry-specific websites in 10 minutes from a one-paragraph brief, supports per-page pricing ($30 base + $5/extra), and is one of the only AI builders that lets you download the raw HTML and host anywhere. Most competitors lock your files inside their platform — DesignSnipe explicitly doesn't.

Yes — fully. Every plan ships as a downloadable zip of plain HTML/CSS/JS. There's no proprietary build step, no JavaScript framework lock-in, no "upgrade to access your own files" trick. Open the zip in any code editor, hand it to a developer, drop it into WordPress as a custom theme, or move it to a different host. If DesignSnipe disappeared tomorrow your website would keep running.

Yes. The Starter plan is $30 one-time and includes a full, custom-designed landing page with AI-written copy tuned to your industry, real stock photography, mobile-responsive design, semantic HTML, SEO meta tags, and a downloadable HTML/CSS export. Add more pages whenever you want for $5 each. No monthly fee, no platform fee, no hidden cost — you pay the $30 once and own everything.

DesignSnipe — by a wide margin if you measure lifetime cost instead of intro price. Three-year total: ~$60 (the $30 builder fee plus ~$30 in domain/DNS). Compare to Wix Light at $576, Squarespace Personal at $576, GoDaddy Basic at $360, or Hostinger Website Builder $108–$432 (intro pricing renews at 2–3× by year 2). Carrd is the closest competitor at ~$57 over 3 years, but it's single-page-only with very limited design — not a viable replacement for a real business site. Full breakdown at /best/cheap-website-builders.

DesignSnipe is an AI website builder that drafts a premium, custom, niche-specific business website in 10 minutes for a one-time payment of $30 (1 page) or $100 (7 pages + free SEO blog), and lets you export the full HTML to host wherever you want — no monthly subscription, no platform lock-in.

It's the better choice if you care about three things: (1) ownership — DesignSnipe gives you the HTML files outright, Wix and Squarespace don't; (2) lifetime cost — $30 once vs. $192/year for Wix Light or Squarespace Personal; (3) design that doesn't look like every other Wix/Squarespace site, because the AI drafts niche-specific patterns instead of dropping you into a generic template library. Wix wins on bundled app marketplace and 24/7 phone support; Squarespace wins on consistency of out-of-the-box design quality. For most SMBs, the trade-offs favor DesignSnipe.

Yes — when the AI builder outputs the right kind of HTML. DesignSnipe ships semantic HTML5 with proper heading hierarchy, sitemap.xml, structured data (JSON-LD: Organization, WebSite, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList, Product), Open Graph + Twitter Card meta, and Core Web Vitals-optimized static output. Plus the Pro plan includes an AI-written SEO blog scaffolded for your industry. Most AI builders (Wix ADI, Squarespace AI, Hostinger Kodee) produce functional but JS-heavy output that scores lower on speed metrics. The HTML structure matters more than the AI authoring it — DesignSnipe optimizes for the structure explicitly.

It's a real conversational assistant that can: (1) make mass changes — recolor the whole site, retone every page's copy, swap sections in bulk; (2) give specific advice — "does this hero work for a wedding photographer?", "what should my hero headline say?"; (3) answer factual questions about pricing, hosting, features instantly (drawn from a knowledge base, not invented); (4) help unstick you when something feels off. It uses Claude Haiku for fast edits and Claude Sonnet when you flag a request as complex.

30 messages per rolling 24-hour window on the free plan. Factual lookups (pricing, hosting, features) answered from our knowledge base don't count — only LLM turns. Hit the cap? Wait it out (rolls forward, doesn't reset at midnight) or upgrade to Pro for $20/mo for unlimited messages plus AI image generation in the builder. Cancel any time.

DesignSnipe Pro is a $20/month subscription that unlocks: unlimited AI chat in the builder (free is 30 messages/day), AI image generation (instead of curated stock), multi-page draft sites, and priority support. It's separate from the one-time site purchases ($30 / $100) — most users start free, hit the chat cap during a heavy editing session, and upgrade when they want to keep iterating. Cancel any time from /account.