miow, a GoDaddy alternative for small businesses
miow builds and hosts small-business websites, and moves a GoDaddy site's pages across.
What is a good alternative to GoDaddy?
miow is one, for a business that wants its website written from a description in its own words, or moved across from the site it has now, and then changed in a sentence. GoDaddy's website builder, now called Airo AI Builder, also writes a site from a description.
How is miow different from GoDaddy?
GoDaddy's figures are from its Airo AI Builder page and help centre in October 2026, in pounds as the page showed them in the UK.
| miow | GoDaddy | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 plan that builds previews but publishes nothing; Starter £7.49 to Ultimate £74.99 a month paid yearly, or £14.99 to £149.99 paid monthly |
| Taking payments | On any site, into its own Stripe account; miow takes nothing from a sale | Payment links from Starter; online payments, a product catalogue and bookings from Professional |
| Your own domain | On any site, with a domain you already own | On a paid plan |
| Signing in | A passkey your phone keeps; no password and no email sign-in | A GoDaddy account |
| Leaving | One zip of the site as data, every page as markdown, and every picture | A zip of the site's files and code on the paid plans |
Can I move my GoDaddy site to miow?
Yes, if the site publishes a list of its pages at its address followed by /sitemap.xml; GoDaddy's builder makes one for every published 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.