- Free-form drag-and-drop page building with your own code components.
- Built-in A/B testing and personalization.
- AI generation from designs and prompts tied to your design system.
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Leiho vs Builder.io
SaaS visual development platform: a drag-and-drop visual CMS plus an AI visual IDE working with your own components. Leiho takes another route: your content stays in WordPress, and editors click the real page of your own front end to change it.
LeihoBuilder.io
Hosting Your own WordPress, on any PHP host. Your front end stays wherever it is. SaaS only (content and editor hosted by Builder; your site runs on your own hosting).
Open source Yes, GPL-2.0-or-later (plugin and bridge). Proprietary platform (framework SDKs are open source; exact license not confirmed).
Pricing Free. No seats, no usage limits. Free plan: yes (1 user, 60 credits/month). Entry paid plan: Pro, $24 per user/month.
Visual editing Yes: editors click text and images on the real front end, inside wp-admin, and it updates as they type. Yes: drag-and-drop Visual Editor renders pages with your registered front-end components (React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, Qwik and more).
Content model Leiho Collections (schema builder or leiho.schema.json), or your existing ACF fields. Both (models in the UI; custom components registered in code).
AI Writing with your brand context on every text field, through WordPress’s own AI connectors (WordPress 7.0+). Credit-based AI agents for generating pages/code from prompts and designs, plus review agents.
MCP server Yes, through the official WordPress MCP Adapter: agents read content and write drafts only. Yes, several official servers, e.g. CMS server.
Localization Built in, field by field: one entry holds every language, fields are translatable or shared, and AI or agents (MCP) translate what is missing. Yes, built-in field-level and entry-level localization.
SEO and AI search Built in: each collection maps its fields to schema.org, description and FAQ. Leiho serves JSON-LD, llms.txt and every page as Markdown, in every language. The default page model has title and description; Open Graph image, noindex and canonical are fields you add. No JSON-LD, llms.txt or Markdown output in the docs.
Checked on 5 November 2026 from each vendor’s site. Prices and plans change: follow the sources below.
Where Builder.io shines
Where Leiho differs
- Your content stays in a WordPress you host, not in a vendor’s cloud.
- Free and GPL for every site: no seats, plans or usage limits to watch.
- Editors keep WordPress: their login, roles, media library and plugins.
- Publishing follows your deployment, from a build hook to GitHub Actions or a self-hosted Coolify.
Choose Builder.io if…
Product and marketing teams that want drag-and-drop page building and AI code generation on top of an existing component library.
Choose Leiho if…
Your team or your clients already know WordPress, you want them to edit the real page of a Next.js, Astro, Nuxt or SvelteKit site, and you’d rather not pay per seat or move content to a vendor’s cloud.
Can I move from Builder.io to Leiho?
There is no automatic importer from Builder.io. Leiho entries are WordPress posts, so content can be brought in with WordPress import tools or a script using Leiho’s PHP API. Your front-end components usually stay the same: only the data source and the annotations change.
Do I need WordPress?
Yes. Leiho is a WordPress plugin: WordPress stores the content and runs the back office. Any PHP host works, and your front end stays separate.
Edit the real site.
Free and open source. Try it on a real WordPress, in your browser.