Mixo Review: How the AI Website Builder Works, Whether It's Free and What It Costs

Mixo is an AI website builder for small businesses: you describe your business in a sentence or two, and it drafts a website with text, images and a contact form that you then edit and publish. And yes, you can use Mixo for free. The Free plan costs $0, needs no credit card and publishes your site on a Mixo web address, with a Mixo badge on it. Your own domain, more than one page and no Mixo branding start with the Business plan at $20 a month, or $16 a month if you pay for the year.

One quick note so we're talking about the same thing: this is Mixo the website builder, not MIXO, the cloud library app for DJs. Same name, nothing in common.

What Mixo is today

Mixo started out as a tool for launching startup ideas: a quick launch page with a waitlist, to find out whether anyone cared before you built the thing. Its own videos from 2022 still say exactly that. Today the pitch has moved to small businesses that need customers to find them and get in touch: a landscaper, a law firm, a home repair company. The word you'll see everywhere on Mixo's site is "enquiries", and, according to Mixo, the product is built around them: contact forms, a place to manage the messages that come in, and a way to keep customer details in one place and export them.

What hasn't changed is the trick. You don't design anything. You describe the business, the AI writes the copy and chooses the images and colors, and then you adjust the result in an editor. If your customers don't speak English, you can pick the site's language on the first screen or simply write your description in that language.

Mixo's own video below shows a site being built at speed, with a pizza place as the guinea pig.

From one description to a website

The first screen asks for one thing: describe your business. For my test I wrote a made-up one, a mobile bike repair service in Austin, Texas, that comes to your home or office to fix flat tires, tune gears and brakes, and service e-bikes. In the corner of the box there's a language selector, and if you're stuck, a link shows you an example prompt. No account is needed to get this far.

According to Mixo's help center, this is what happens next:

1. Mixo may ask what the site is for, such as selling products or promoting a service, and which language you want.
2. The AI builds a preview of your site. Mixo says this usually takes about a minute.
3. If you like the preview, you save it to your account. That's when Mixo may ask you to sign up or log in.
4. You open the editor: a menu of your site's sections on the left and a live preview on the right. You change text, swap images, upload your logo and set your colors.
5. You press Publish. Saving and publishing are separate steps, so you can work on changes without touching the live site.

What you can actually build with it

The core is a business website: a home page that explains what you do, with a contact form so people can reach you. On top of that, Mixo's help center and its videos describe a few more things the editor can do:

• Forms. You can add pages with a contact form, a registration form for events, a survey or a quiz, and Mixo's AI sets up the fields from a short description, which you can then edit.
• A blog. You can add a blog or a section for past projects, guides or a portfolio, and have the AI write the articles. On the free plan, you get one free run that drafts 5 short articles for a site, and you can publish up to 3 articles; Business gets 3 runs a month and Premium unlimited. Mixo updates your sitemap when you publish, so Google can find the new pages.
• The usual extras. A way to take payments, a map with your location, more fonts, a dark mode, and SEO titles and descriptions. On the paid plans, also embedded videos and Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager.

Mixo also says its sites are "SEO-optimized from day one" and come with an automatic llms.txt file, a small file meant to help AI assistants understand your site. I'd take that as the basics done for you, not as a promise of customers. A one-page site on a Mixo subdomain is a nice digital business card, and in search it will behave like one. If you want people to find you on Google, your own domain and a few useful pages about what you do will matter more than any file.

What it costs

Mixo has three plans. On the monthly toggle, Business is $20 and Premium $40, and paying yearly takes 20% off:

A few details that matter more than the headline price. The free domain on Business and Premium is for the first year only; after that you pay the standard renewal, and Mixo values that domain at $30. The 30-day money-back guarantee, according to Mixo's terms, applies to your first plan purchase and only once. And the pricing page doesn't say whether the prices include tax.

My take on the plans: Free is enough to see whether you like what Mixo's AI makes for your business, and to have a link you can share while you sort the rest out. The moment you want your own domain and no badge, which is the moment you start putting the site on your business cards, it's Business. Premium is for when you have a team, or a lot of inquiries to track and tools to connect.

Who it's for, and who should look elsewhere

Mixo makes the most sense for someone who runs a service business, has no website or an embarrassing one, and wants something professional-looking this week without learning a website builder. A mobile bike mechanic, a cleaning company, a therapist, a small law office. You describe what you do, check what the AI wrote, and you're online. If you just want to test an idea with a page and a signup form, which is what Mixo was originally made for, it still does that too.

It's the wrong tool if you need your site to do something: calculate a quote, book appointments with your own logic, run a small app. For that, you want an AI app builder.

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Lovable is the one I'd try first for that: you describe the app in a chat and it builds it, with free daily credits to see whether it suits you. v0, from Vercel, works the same way and publishes to a Vercel address, and Replit has an agent that builds apps and sites in the browser. For a straightforward business website with a contact form, though, they're more than you need, and Mixo is built for exactly that.

Written by Miguel Ángel, with help from an LLM to verify facts.