Best AI Website Builder for 2026? Lovable vs Base44 vs Hostinger Horizons vs Sticklight

Why It Matters

Choosing the right AI website builder can slash development costs and accelerate launch, especially when integrated domain and email features eliminate the need for third‑party services.

Key Takeaways

• Hosting Horizons offers cheapest plan with free domain and email.
• Lovable consumes most credits per project, limiting free usage.
• All tools support multilingual prompts, but interface language varies.
• Base44 and Sticklight require external services for custom email setup.
• Visual editors differ; Hosting Horizons provides most intuitive editing experience.

Summary

The video pits four AI‑driven website builders—Lovable, Base44, Hostinger Horizons, and Sticklight—against each other, walking viewers through sign‑up, prompt entry, and the resulting site layouts. It highlights how the same prompt yields distinct designs, from ad sidebars to savings calculators, and then drills into each platform’s credit consumption, pricing tiers, and ancillary services. Key data points include credit usage per project (Lovable 5 credits, Base44 3.1, Horizons 2, Sticklight 2.3) and monthly costs (Lovable $25, Base44 $16, Horizons $16 for a single‑project starter, Sticklight $25). Horizons stands out with a free custom domain and bundled email, while Lovable and Base44 rely on third‑party domain providers and require external email hosting. All four accept multilingual prompts, yet only Horizons and Sticklight offer interface language switches. The reviewer demonstrates real‑world tasks: editing content via visual editors, switching languages, publishing subdomains, and integrating Stripe for e‑book sales. Notably, only Horizons successfully sent a test email without extra configuration, and its editor allowed the quickest content edits. Pricing screenshots and coupon code usage illustrate the practical cost of scaling beyond the daily five‑credit free allowance. For businesses, the comparison underscores that Horizons delivers the most complete out‑of‑the‑box solution at the lowest price, while the other tools may appeal to users comfortable stitching together external services. As AI page‑builders evolve toward drag‑and‑drop interfaces, early adopters should weigh credit efficiency, built‑in domain/email, and editor usability when selecting a platform.

Original Description

AI website builders are evolving incredibly fast, and a new trend called vibe coding is changing how people build websites and web apps. Instead of writing code, you simply describe what you want, and AI builds it for you.

In this video, I compare four powerful AI website builders to see which one performs best:

• Lovable https://ferdy.com/lovable

• Base44 https://ferdy.com/base44

• Hostinger Horizons https://ferdy.com/horizons

• Sticklight https://ferdy.com/sticklight

I test them using the exact same prompt to see how each tool performs in real-world scenarios. You'll see how they handle building a web app, editing the design, connecting domains, sending emails, and even selling digital products.

The goal is simple: Which AI builder gives you the best result with the least effort?

What You’ll Learn

In this comparison we test several important factors:

• How good the generated website/app looks

• How many AI credits each platform uses

• Pricing and subscription plans

• Visual editing experience

• Language support and prompting in different languages

• Custom domains and subdomains

• Email accounts and built-in email functionality

• Selling digital products with Stripe

• Overall ease of use

To make this comparison fair, I created one prompt and used it in all four tools. This allowed me to compare how each platform interprets the same request and what kind of design and functionality it produces.

You’ll see that even with the same prompt, the results can be very different.

The AI Website Builders Compared

Lovable

Lovable is one of the most popular vibe coding tools right now. It allows you to create web apps simply by describing what you want. It uses a credit-based system where each generation costs credits.

Base44

Base44 is another fast-growing AI builder focused on creating web applications quickly with minimal setup. It is one of the cheapest tools in this comparison, making it interesting for beginners.

Hostinger Horizons

Hostinger Horizons is an AI web app builder created by the hosting company Hostinger. One big advantage is that it includes hosting, domains, and email in the same ecosystem.

Sticklight

Sticklight is created by the makers of Elementor, one of the most popular website builders in the world. It focuses on combining AI generation with visual editing.

What Makes This Comparison Interesting

During this test we discovered several important differences:

Some platforms generate more polished designs, while others focus more on functionality.

Some tools are much cheaper in credits, meaning you can build more apps before running out.

And some platforms make it much easier to:

• connect your own domain

• create email accounts

• sell digital products

• edit content visually

One of the biggest surprises was how different the editing experience can be between these platforms.

Why Vibe Coding Is The Future

Instead of learning complicated programming languages, tools like these allow you to simply describe what you want.

For example you could say:

"Create a mortgage payoff calculator that shows how much interest someone saves when they make extra payments."

And the AI will generate the entire application.

This means entrepreneurs, creators, and marketers can build web apps, SaaS tools, and monetized websites without needing to code.

You can monetize these apps using:

• ads

• affiliate links

• digital products

• subscriptions

• lead generation

My Personal Conclusion

All four tools are impressive and evolving extremely fast.

However, each platform has its own strengths depending on what you want to build.

Some are better for simple AI web apps, while others are better if you want domains, hosting, and email built-in.

The most important thing to realize is that this technology is improving every single month, and within a short time these tools will likely evolve into full AI page builders where you can generate a website with AI and then customize everything visually.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

01:02 First Results

02:03 Credit Use

02:27 Pricings

04:21 Visual Editor

06:02 Other Languages

07:20 Subdomains

08:05 Custom Domains

09:14 Email Account

11:16 eCommerce Features?

00:12:13 Thanks

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