Plasmic
99 · HealthyVisual builder for React pages and apps that plugs into your own codebase and components.
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WordPress
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TinaCMS
83 · HealthyGit-backed headless CMS with visual editing for Markdown and MDX content.
Silex
75 · StableVisual builder for static websites that can pull in dynamic data and publish anywhere.
Keystone
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Webstudio
66 · StableVisual website builder with full CSS control that connects to any headless CMS.
Instatic
64 · StableVisual website builder and CMS that publishes clean static pages, with users, roles, plugins and AI-assisted editing.
Onlook
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Silex
Visual builder for static websites that can pull in dynamic data and publish anywhere.
Will it still be around?
Stable
Score 75/100
Can a business use it freely?
Free, share hosted changes
AGPL-3.0 · open source (copyleft)
Flat Rate Deploy
If you pay $29 a month for Wix, Silex on OpenTools costs $15 a month, setup included, so you save $14 a month, about $504 over three years.
Monthly cost
- Silex on OpenTools
- $15
- Wix
$29
You save each month
$14/mo
48% less than today
Saving from month one
You save
- Over 3 years
- $504
- In year one
- $168
List price checked 9 Oct 2026 · Source · Disclaimer
Health score: 75/100
Stable · activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness, from GitHub
Score v2 · How it works
Activity
45% weight100/100
- Last commit yesterday (100/100).
- 955 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- 23 releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor
30% weight24/100
- Top contributor wrote 82% of the last 100 commits (past 12 months).
- 10 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness
25% weight92/100
- 96% of all issues are closed (53 open, 1177 closed) (100/100).
- 26 of 30 recent issues got a reply or were closed (87/100).
License
Free, share hosted changes
AGPL-3.0 · Open source (copyleft)
What you need to do
Free for any use, commercial included. If you change the code and people outside your company use it over the network, you must publish your changes under the same license.
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 · Open source (copyleft). OSI-approved license that requires sharing changes under the same license when you distribute (AGPL: also when you offer it over a network).
Detected by GitHub as AGPL-3.0.
GitHub activity
- Stars
- 3.0k
- Forks
- 685
- Commits, 12 mo
- 955
- last yesterday
- Releases, 12 mo
- 23
- last 3 months ago
- Contributors
- 38
- 10 in last 100 commits
- Open issues
- 53
- 1.2k closed
Snapshot from 2026-10-09 · Funding: open collective
Top contributors
Points for pull requests merged into Silex and reviews of them since 18 June 2026 (older history is still loading). Building something another user asked for earns more. 11 people have points on Silex in all.
