miow, a Durable alternative for small businesses
miow builds and hosts small-business websites, and moves a Durable site's pages across.
What is a good alternative to Durable?
miow is one, for a business that wants a model to write its website from a description in its own words, or to bring across the pages of the site it has now. Like Durable, miow builds the site for you; it then lets you change any page in a sentence, edit it yourself, or hand it to an AI agent.
How is miow different from Durable?
Durable's figures are from its pricing page and help centre in October 2026, in US dollars.
| miow | Durable | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Building costs nothing, and so does hosting unless miow sets a monthly price for the site, shown under Money in its Settings before anything is taken | A free preview on a durable.site address with Durable's badge; Launch at US$22 a month paid yearly or US$25 paid monthly, and Grow from US$41 a month |
| Taking payments | On any site, into its own Stripe account; miow takes nothing from a sale | Paid bookings and invoices through Stripe on the paid plans, with no fee added by Durable |
| Your own domain | On any site, with a domain you already own | From the Launch plan |
| AI agents | Any agent that connects to MCP servers, such as Claude, can build and change the site through miow.me/mcp | Durable's own assistant writes blog posts, social posts and replies to leads |
| Signing in | A passkey your phone keeps; no password and no email sign-in | A Durable account |
| Leaving | One zip of the site as data, every page as markdown, and every picture | Its help centre describes exporting customers as a CSV file, not the site; a domain bought from Durable transfers once the plan has run three months |
Can I move my Durable site to miow?
Yes, if the site publishes a list of its pages at its address followed by /sitemap.xml; Durable makes one for every site. Give miow the address, and up to 40 of its pages come across at the same addresses, each laid out by a model under a rule to keep every word, with its pictures copied into miow's own storage.
Forms, newsletter sign-ups and anything that runs as a script stay behind; where a form was the way to get in touch, the page keeps the email address or phone number it gives. Links to the old site keep working once its domain points at miow.
What does miow leave out?
miow takes no bookings, sends no newsletters and sells no domains. Each product is one item at one price, marked sold once it is paid for, which suits one-off pieces more than stock in sizes and colours.
A business that relies on bookings or a newsletter keeps that service where it is and links to it from its miow site.
How does miow compare with other website builders?
miow compared with other website builders lists every comparison.