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How to pick a landing page builder for your campaigns

A landing page is a single page built for one campaign and one action, such as signing up, booking a call or buying. You can build it with a website builder, with the page tools inside a marketing automation platform, or with a plugin or app on the site platform you already use. The right choice depends on where your site already lives and where the leads from the page need to go.

How to build landing pages, step by step

The software this job takes

What to look for

Common mistakes to avoid

What to settle before you buy

Frequently asked questions

Is there a free landing page builder?

Of the 3 website builder tools we track, Wix and WordPress list a free plan or free tier (limits are in the table above); Squarespace does not. Of the 5 marketing automation tools we track, HubSpot, Klaviyo and Mailchimp list a free plan or free tier (limits are in the table above); ActiveCampaign and Keap do not. Free plans often limit pages, visitors or custom domains, so check those limits against your campaign before you rely on one.

Should I use a WordPress or Shopify landing page builder or a separate tool?

If your site already runs on a platform like WordPress or Shopify, building pages there keeps them on your domain and avoids another bill. A separate builder can make sense if marketing needs to publish pages without touching the main site. Decide based on who edits pages and where leads need to go.

What is an AI landing page builder?

It is a builder that drafts a page layout and copy from a short description. It can speed up a first draft, but you still need to check every claim, price and offer on the page before it goes live.

How much does a landing page builder cost?

It depends on the tool and how many pages, visitors and contacts you need. The table above shows each tool's verified entry price and billing unit.

How we built this page

We start from the job, not the product. The phrasings people search for this job (for example “landing page builder”) come from our research into how small and mid-size teams describe it. Which software categories the job takes is our editorial judgment. Every tool, entry price, billing unit and date comes from HelpCompare’s open dataset, recorded from each vendor’s own pricing page; nothing is estimated, and where a vendor publishes no price we say so. We take no affiliate commissions and publish no scores of our own. See our methodology or download the data from Open Data.

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Bill Belcamino

Founder and author, HelpCompare

Bill has worked in software and digital marketing for more than 20 years. He spent nine years as an engineer at HP, served as COO scaling a platform past 200,000 users, and ran Google’s $70M/year search syndication partnership at Alot.com. He has bought, trialled, integrated and cancelled more SaaS tools than he can count, and started HelpCompare because the real cost of switching tools is the part nobody covers.

“I’ve sat on both sides of the table: the agency recommending the tool and the client paying for it.”

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