As of 29 Oct 2026, the panel rates Jimdo 3/5 and Wix 3.5/5 in Website Builders. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 0 of the 6 judges pick Jimdo and 6 pick Wix. Jimdo scores higher on 2 of 7 criteria (Pricing transparency and Imprint, privacy & cookie compliance). Wix scores higher on 5 of 7 criteria (Editor, templates & design control, Hosting, domains & portability, SEO, analytics & visibility, plus 2 more). Provenance — Jimdo: EU-Made; Wix: Rest of world. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
Jimdo and Wix split the six-judge panel by criterion. Wix leads the build side: six judges lean Wix on editor and design (8.8 vs 5.2), SEO and marketing (8.8 vs 6.7) and hosting and portability (6.5 vs 4.0); forms and business draws five Wix leans and one tie (8.3 vs 7.2). Jimdo leads the commercial side: six judges lean Jimdo on pricing transparency (7.2 vs 4.8) and legal compliance (6.0 vs 4.7) — five published plans, Free €0 to Unlimited €50 per month, VAT included, against Wix's discounted subscriptions auto-renewing without notice at the full then-current fee. Sovereignty sits close (3.7 vs 4.2, two lean Wix, four tie): Jimdo's data residency attribute reads "eu only" versus Wix's "us default", and both carry US Cloud Act subprocessor exposure. The four computed weighted totals lean Wix, closest 5.5 vs 5.8 for the data protection officer.
Choose Jimdo if
You need published prices before signing: Jimdo lists five plans, Free €0 to Unlimited €50 per month, VAT included, and emails the exact renewal cost six weeks before renewal — pricing transparency leans Jimdo six to zero, 7.2 vs 4.8.
You run a German-market business and need generated legal texts: the legal-text generator with Trusted Shops liability draws bench praise, and legal compliance leans Jimdo six to zero, 6.0 vs 4.7.
Your compliance review requires EU data residency: Jimdo's data residency attribute reads eu only, while Wix's reads us default.
You document payment processors before committing: Stripe is the only processor Jimdo discloses, and it is required for online payments.
Choose Wix if
You need pixel-precise drag-and-drop editing with a separate mobile view: editor and design leans Wix six to zero, 8.8 vs 5.2.
You are migrating a site and need bulk 301 redirects of up to 500 URLs: SEO and marketing leans Wix six to zero, 8.8 vs 6.7.
You take payments, bookings and run a CRM from your forms: forms and business draws five Wix leans with one tie, 8.3 vs 7.2.
Hosting and portability weigh into your decision: that criterion leans Wix six to zero, 6.5 vs 4.0.
You are a freelance designer or a marketing lead: those judges' weighted totals lean Wix, 7.1 vs 5.7 and 7.3 vs 5.9.
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Freelance Web Designer
Builds about twenty sites a year for doctors, restaurants and consultants, and looks after them afterwards. Wants real control over layout, mobile breakpoints and type, reusable sections across client sites, a client login that cannot break the design, backups that restore in one click, and a way to take the site and its content elsewhere if the client or the tool changes.
Jimdo
Wix
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Editor, templates & design control
Jimdo
The block-by-block browser editor, over 100 template variations and a template list covering doctors, restaurants, photographers and more get a client site up fast, the AI drafts the structure and copy, and the Creator product's coding function covers my custom work. But I found no public information on separate mobile or breakpoint editing, reusable sections, collaborator or client roles, or version history and restore — the controls I need before handing a site to a client.
Wix
This is professional-grade control I recognise from daily work: pixel-level drag and drop on a fluid canvas, a separate mobile editor whose changes leave the desktop version untouched with mobile-only elements, thousands of templates and free components, a CMS with collections and dynamic pages, multilingual sites, custom code, contributor roles with per-plan collaborator seats, and a site history you can restore. It stays short of the top score because I found no public information on custom breakpoints, staging before publishing, or a design system with variables.
Hosting, domains & portability
Jimdo
Hosting is included with HTTPS on every plan, a free domain for the first contract term, storage stated per plan from 5 GB to 500 GB, and domains can be transferred to Jimdo free of charge. I found no public information on backups or a restore function, speed measures, uptime commitments, or any export of pages and content — the first things I check before moving a client's site in.
Wix
Hosting is described with real numbers — 99.98 percent uptime, per-plan storage from 2 GB to unlimited, multi-cloud hosting, free SSL, images compressed to WebP, Core Web Vitals improvements, domains registered, transferred in or connected, Google Workspace mailboxes on the own domain, and site history you can restore. For a tool I use for twenty clients a year the leaving story is thin, though: the terms tell me to independently back up my own content, account deletion is irreversible, and I found no public information on exporting pages, content and media when a client moves on.
SEO, analytics & visibility
Jimdo
Site structure, meta data and schema markup are set up automatically with everything adjustable, the site is instantly indexable, built-in statistics come with Google Search Console and Analytics, and the Google Business Profile listing via Jimdo Local plus content structured for AI citation are a genuine win for my restaurant and practice clients. I found no public information on redirects, canonical or robots control, or multilingual SEO on the captured pages.
Wix
Nearly the full package for a local doctor or restaurant: editable titles and descriptions, an automatic sitemap that resubmits itself, 301 redirects with bulk import of 500 URLs, structured data, canonical tags and robots.txt, server-side rendering, a Google Business Profile managed from the dashboard, Semrush keyword research inside an SEO setup checklist, a learning hub, Google Analytics connections, and an AI visibility tool tracking mentions in ChatGPT and Gemini. I hold back only because the captured pages say nothing on noindex control, hreflang for multilingual SEO or A/B testing.
Forms, bookings & business features
Jimdo
This is a joined-up small-business stack: AI-drafted Smart Forms whose responses land in a GDPR-flagged customer database, unlimited bookings with automatic confirmations, enforced cancellation rules and payment at booking, payment links shared anywhere with credit card and Klarna, and invoices generated automatically with XML, XRechnung and ZUGFeRD formats. I found no public information on conditional fields, file uploads, member areas or named CRM integrations, and Google Calendar sync is stated as coming soon.
Wix
The business side is covered in depth for my kind of clients: forms with conditional rules and multi-page flows, spam filters, real-time submissions in the dashboard, payments and donations on forms with product, fixed, custom or donation pricing, bookings with Google and iCal sync plus Zoom, a members area, events, invoices, a built-in CRM, health waivers and an app market with hundreds of third-party apps. The gaps are narrow — I found no public information on file uploads and confirmation emails on forms, or on consent and retention settings per form.
Imprint, privacy & cookie compliance
Jimdo
The legal-text side is unusually strong: GDPR-compliant imprint, privacy policy, withdrawal notice and terms are generated, auto-updated and placed on the right pages, with Trusted Shops taking over liability and a claim that none of over 500,000 legal texts has been successfully challenged. What I found no public information on is a cookie consent banner that blocks scripts, a data processing agreement, or accessibility features.
Wix
There is a public, binding data processing agreement between Wix and its users covering visitors' data and deletion on termination, a Privacy Center with GDPR compliance tools, a cookie alert, and German-language help confirming the agreement. What a German client actually gets audited on is thinner: the captured pages do not describe a consent banner that blocks scripts until consent, and I found no public information on imprint or legal-text templates, fonts or maps served without third-country transfers, or accessibility under the European Accessibility Act.
European sovereignty
Jimdo
The vendor is Jimdo GmbH in Hamburg and the captured homepage states servers are hosted in Europe, with customer data excluded from AI training and GDPR-compliant domain registration. Beyond Stripe being required for online payments, no hosting, storage, email or support subprocessors are disclosed, the included Google Analytics and Google Workspace integrations run through a US provider, and I found no public information on a data processing agreement or security certifications.
Wix
The contracting party is Wix.com Ltd. in Tel Aviv under the Commission's adequacy decision for Israel, with an Article 27 representative in Dublin, and the sub-processor list is genuinely detailed with locations — AWS and Fastly in the United States, Google Ireland for infrastructure, and Twilio, SendGrid and Microsoft Dynamics all US-based under standard contractual clauses. For my German clients that means a non-EU vendor whose chain runs largely through US providers; I found no public information on where sites and form entries are actually hosted, on the ownership structure, or on ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certifications.
Pricing transparency
Jimdo
Every plan is priced publicly — Free at €0, Start at €12 per month, Grow at €20, Grow Legal at €29, Unlimited at €50 — with a default 12-month term, monthly or 24-month options, renewal at the regular price flagged 6 weeks ahead, VAT included, a free domain for the first term and 24 € per year after renewal; Jimdo states it never charges transaction fees while standard Stripe fees apply for online payments. What holds me back: prices for other contract terms are stated only as 'may vary', and I found no public information on setup fees, cancellation notice or what happens to the site after cancellation.
Wix
The plans page names four tiers with their storage, collaborator seats, marketing and ecommerce levels, a free domain for a year on annual plans and a 14-day money-back guarantee, and the terms are candid that discounted subscriptions auto-renew without notice at the full then-current fee and that fees can change at any time. But the pieces a client needs for a two-year budget are not on the captured pages — I found no public information on renewal price figures, domain renewal cost, mailbox prices, transaction fees or VAT treatment, so the real long-run cost is not computable.
Sovereignty, side by side
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Legal entity
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Hosting location
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Hosting options
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Open source
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Data processing agreement
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Transfer impact assessment
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Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
As of 29 Oct 2026, the panel rates Wix higher: 3.5/5 against 3/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 0 of the 6 judges pick Jimdo and 6 pick Wix. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is Jimdo or Wix European?
Jimdo is European (EU-Made). Wix is not European by provenance (Rest of world). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.
Do Jimdo and Wix have a free plan?
As of 29 Oct 2026, both vendors’ own pages state a free plan. Each product page links the pricing page it was read from.