visual page builder / headless CMS
Builder.io is a visual development/headless CMS platform whose open-source repo provides SDKs and plugins to connect React, Vue, Svelte, Qwik and other codebases so pages can be created and edited visually with drag-and-drop or Figma-to-code.
Same problem, same approach. Swapping one for another is a config change, not a rewrite.
Choose it when you want a comparable code-connected visual builder/headless CMS with an open-source core and strong React integration, without relying on Builder.io's platform.
Visual builder for React. Build apps, websites, and content. Integrate with your codebase.
Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.
Choose it when you want a fully open-source, embeddable HTML page-builder library under your own control instead of Builder.io's hosted SaaS/SDK workflow.
Free and Open source Web Builder Framework. Next generation tool for building templates without coding
Choose it when you want a JSX/React page builder embedded directly in your repository and do not need a cloud CMS or multi-framework SDKs.
A JSX-based page builder for creating beautiful websites without writing code
Choose it when you want a self-hosted MIT React visual editor with its own content model instead of pulling content through Builder.io.
The visual editor for React.
An earlier or more limited way to do the job. Still the right call when you need something small, proven, or CPU-only.
Choose it when you need a zero-build vanilla-JS drag-and-drop editor for a small site; it lacks Builder's multi-framework SDKs and headless CMS.
Drag and drop page builder library written in vanilla javascript without dependencies or build tools.
Choose it if you are building your own low-code visual designer and need an open-source schema/editor engine rather than an out-of-the-box CMS platform.
🧩 Make everything designable 🧩
Choose it for an existing Laravel app that needs a simple server-rendered drag-drop page manager; it is framework-specific and now quiet.
A drag and drop pagebuilder to manage pages in any Laravel project
Choose it for a lightweight PHP project that needs a no-framework drag-drop page editor; it is narrower than Builder's multi-stack SDKs.
A drag and drop page builder to manage pages in any PHP project
Choose it if you want a self-hosted low-code React drag-drop builder and can accept a project with no pushes for about 2.8 years.
低代码框架，支持流式布局与自由布局拖拽编排，可视化拖拽、随意嵌套组合、实时渲染、实时辅助线展示、自由布局支持辅助对齐、支持自动吸附、实时组件间距展示、实时拖拽排序、状态域管理，可视化属性配置、可视化样式配置、多设备适配展示，支持逻辑渲染、模板字符变量、表达式、自定义方法、自定义状态
Choose it for a code-driven low-code builder on your own codebase if you accept a project with no pushes for about 2 years.
A code driven low-code builder, develop low-code app on your codebase.
Choose it for a lightweight drag-drop website editor inside a Next.js app when you only target Next.js; it is narrower than Builder's multi-stack SDKs.
Framely: The open-source, lightweight, multi-tenant drag-and-drop website editor for modern web applications, powered by Next.js
Does the same job, but ships as an app. Useful to a person, not swappable into a codebase.
Choose it when you want a standalone self-hosted visual CMS with users, roles and static-site output, not an SDK added to an existing app.
The open-source alternative to Webflow, Framer and WordPress. Agentic self-hosted visual CMS outputting clean static pages. Users, roles, plugins, content, database, it's all there.
Choose it when you are building a WordPress site and want a GUI page builder plugin; it cannot be used outside WordPress.
The most advanced frontend drag & drop page builder. Create high-end, pixel perfect websites at record speeds. Any theme, any page, any design.
Choose it when you want a complete self-hosted PHP CMS/e-commerce product with a visual page editor instead of Builder's front-end SDK integration.
Drag and Drop Website Builder and CMS with E-commerce
Choose it when you want a standalone open-source visual editor that generates static sites rather than integrating page building into an existing app.
Silex is an online tool for visually creating static sites with dynamic data. With the free/libre spirit of internet, together.
Choose it when you want a standalone open-source Webflow-style visual website builder rather than plugging Builder SDKs into an existing codebase.
Open source website builder and Webflow alternative. Webstudio is an advanced visual builder that connects to any headless CMS, supports all CSS properties, and can be hosted anywhere, including with us.
Choose it when you want a standalone visual website builder tied to the Frappe ecosystem instead of a code-level CMS/SDK platform.
Craft beautiful websites effortlessly with an intuitive visual builder and publish them instantly
Choose it when you want an AI-first desktop tool that visually edits your React source code instead of using Builder's CMS/SDK publishing model.
The Developer Tool for Designers • An Open-Source AI-First Design tool • Visually build, style, and edit your code with AI • World's best, top-most agent recommended #1 Developer tool for Designers to design with Real Code.
These projects were analysed and named builder among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how builder rates them is a separate judgement, made when builder is analysed in its own right.
calls builder “choose it when your stack spans React, Vue, Svelte, or Qwik and you want visual editing plus headless CMS features.”
Open source website builder and Webflow alternative. Webstudio is an advanced visual builder that connects to any headless CMS, supports all CSS properties, and can be hosted anywhere, including with us.
calls builder “Choose if you want a visual CMS/page builder with framework SDKs, but it is more content-oriented and hosted, not a self-contained JSON admin renderer.”
前端低代码框架，通过 JSON 配置就能生成各种页面。
calls builder “Choose it when you need a visual/headless CMS across multiple frameworks with a hosted editing service instead of an embedded component.”
The visual editor for React.
calls builder “component-level visual development platform for React/Vue/Svelte apps; choose it when you need visual editing inside an existing codebase rather than a standalone static-site server”
The open-source alternative to Webflow, Framer and WordPress. Agentic self-hosted visual CMS outputting clean static pages. Users, roles, plugins, content, database, it's all there.
calls builder “Choose when you want a framework-agnostic visual development layer for a JavaScript app with headless content.”
The most advanced frontend drag & drop page builder. Create high-end, pixel perfect websites at record speeds. Any theme, any page, any design.
calls builder “Choose Builder.io when you want visual development across React, Vue, Svelte, or Qwik with a hosted/cloud-backed editing platform.”
Visual builder for React. Build apps, websites, and content. Integrate with your codebase.
calls builder “choose it if you want a managed, hosted visual CMS/builder with cross-framework SDKs and accept depending on Builder.io's cloud service rather than running a local editor library.”
Free and Open source Web Builder Framework. Next generation tool for building templates without coding
calls builder “hosted visual CMS/editor with SDKs, for teams that want a managed editor instead of embedding a framework”
🚀 A React Framework for building extensible drag and drop page editors
calls builder “Choose when you want a managed visual CMS/headless development platform across frameworks; it requires adopting the Builder service rather than swapping in a local library.”
Drag and drop page builder library written in vanilla javascript without dependencies or build tools.