Pick GoDaddy if you want to describe your business and have its Airo AI build a new site you edit yourself, starting free, or if you want its designers to build one for a $499.99 one-time fee plus annual hosting. Pick Think Bright Sites if you already have a site and want it rebuilt from its address with your content kept, reviewed by a person before it goes live.
What each one gives you, who does the work, and what it costs to start.
| GoDaddy | Think Bright Sites | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | GoDaddy Website Builder with Airo, unlimited websites or apps on the free start. Also Website Design Services and managed WordPress hosting. | Your existing site rebuilt on the Think Bright System, our own catalog of rows, page by page. You see the match before anything changes. |
| Who does the work | You, with Airo. Or GoDaddy's designers, through Website Design Services. | HANS, our AI, does the build. A person reviews it. You approve the match and every change. |
| Starting price | Website Builder: start free; paid from $9.99/mo with an annual term. Website Design Services: $499.99 one-time, plus an annual hosting fee. | Landing page $19.95/mo. Sites self-serve $49.95/mo (in development). With our help: $499 setup. Services, managed marketing, from $750/mo. |
| Build time | — | The automated rebuild runs in minutes. A person then reviews it before it goes live, so go-live is not instant. |
| Editing | Describe what you want and Airo builds it. No coding needed. | Click into the text on your page and edit it in place, or leave a voice note. No AI credit meter. |
| Hosting | Included. A free domain comes with annual plans. | Included, on a Think Bright address (yourname.thinkbrightsites.com). Connecting your own domain is on our roadmap. |
| Exit and export | — | Pages are static HTML, and every build carries a README of what runs where. A packaged export you download yourself is on our roadmap. |
| AI involvement | Airo builds the site from your description. The free start includes 50 AI credits. | HANS reads your live site and rebuilds each row with your own words and photos. Nothing is invented. |
| Human review | With Website Design Services, GoDaddy's designers build the site for you. | A person reviews every row before go-live. |
A dash means the GoDaddy pages we read did not say.
Landing page: one focused page for your offer, hosted on thinkbrightsites.com.
Sites, self-serve: your site rebuilt, and you make the changes with our editor.
One or two interview meetings, a final presentation, then edits by email.
Services: HANS does the work every month and a person approves every change.
Every plan: HANS does the work, and a person reviews before go-live. Pricing details →
GoDaddy Website Builder starts free, with paid plans from $9.99 a month on an annual term. Its Website Design Services are $499.99 one-time plus annual hosting. Our landing page is $19.95/mo, and with our help a site's setup is $499.
Both have people involved. GoDaddy's designers build a site from what you tell them. We start from your live site: HANS rebuilds it from its address, and a person reviews every row before go-live.
No. Your domain stays with your registrar. Today a Think Bright site goes live on a Think Bright address; connecting your own domain is on our roadmap.
Sources, read 14 October 2026: godaddy.com/pricing (Websites) · GoDaddy Help: compare plans. Our prices and features: Think Bright Sites, as of the same date.
Paste your URL. HANS rebuilds your site and shows you the match before anything changes. A person reviews it before it goes live.