Competing product, so discount accordingly. Pixpa is a lot of value for the money and I'd rather be straight about that than pretend otherwise.

What Pixpa gives you

Plans at the time of writing, billed annually: Basic $5/mo, Creator $9/mo, Professional $19/mo, Advanced $39/mo. Monthly billing is higher across the board. There's a 15-day trial with no card required, and all four plans include a free domain for the first year.

The limits scale the way you'd expect. Basic caps you at 10 pages, 1 blog, 3 products and 3 client gallery links, with 3 GB of storage. Creator opens pages up and moves you to 10 products and 10 galleries. Professional goes to 100 products and 25 galleries with 25 GB. Advanced is unlimited with 100 GB and adds inventory and abandoned cart features. Pixpa takes no commission on sales.

That is a genuinely good deal, and it's cheaper than we are. Say your priority is a store plus client proofing plus a blog for under ten dollars a month. Pixpa wins. Go use Pixpa.

The thing Pixpa can't sell you

A site that looks like you designed it, because you did.

Pixpa is template-driven. You choose from their library and configure it, and reviewers consistently note that gallery pages in particular give you limited layout control. For a photographer who just wants clean galleries and a working shop, that's fine. For a designer or an art director whose portfolio is the argument for hiring them, a template is a weird place to make that argument.

There's a workflow cost too. Designers usually mock the site up properly first, then rebuild it inside the builder as closely as the template allows. Now there are two versions of the site, the one you designed and the one that's live, and they drift from the first edit onward.

Stay on Pixpa if

You sell prints or digital downloads and want that built in. We have no store.

Stay if client proofing galleries are part of how you work, since that's a real feature we don't have. Stay if you need a blog, because we have no CMS. Stay if the budget is genuinely tight, because $5 to $9 a month is hard to argue with.

And stay if you don't work in Figma. Figment is a Figma plugin. Without the file there's nothing to publish.

What Figment does

You design the site in Figma, frame by frame, with nothing between your layout and the result. The plugin publishes those frames as a live website on your domain in under a minute. Editing later is editing the same Figma file and publishing again.

No template library, no configuring somebody else's grid, no second copy of the design to keep aligned.

What you get that Pixpa doesn't offer

You own the Figma file outright, so the design is portable the day you want to leave. Zero drift between the design and what's live, since they're the same thing. Updates are design edits rather than editor work. Publishing takes under a minute. The canvas stays in a form AI can operate on directly. And the product has been running since 2021, with 31,402 sites built and 20,048 published.

On price, we're $29/mo Pro and $89/mo Team after a 30-day trial, with a free tier that publishes to a subdomain with a "Built with Figment.so" badge. That's more than Pixpa. You're paying for design control and for owning the file, and if neither matters to your project then we're not worth the difference.

Worth noting on AI: Pixpa offers AI help with writing site copy, not site generation from a prompt. Different thing from what we're building.

Getting off Pixpa

Nothing imports into Figma, so plan a rebuild. Screenshot every page at full height, pull your images down at full resolution, and copy your text into a doc. Then build the frames in Figma, desktop and mobile per page.

If you mocked the site up in Figma before building it in Pixpa, go find that file first. It'll save you the whole afternoon.

Install the Figment plugin, publish, review the live URL, then move your domain. Cancel Pixpa once the new site is answering.

AI, stated plainly

We're building an AI website builder that operates on your open Figma canvas instead of inside a closed editor. It's in early access, not generally available. To see Figment and get on the early access list, request a demo.

Not sure it's a fit? Ask on Discord and I'll tell you if Pixpa suits you better.