An honest comparison, including where they win
Spanli vs Durable: an AI website builder that iterates until it's yours
Both of us build your site with AI — that part is a tie. Durable is built for speed: a full first draft in well under a minute, plus small-business extras like a CRM and invoicing. Spanli is built for iteration: describe, refine by asking, and keep refining until the site is specifically yours. Both are real trade-offs. Here’s the whole picture, including the parts where they’re better.
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You type “A freelance product designer in Dublin working with small teams, two projects at a time” - and Spanli assembles the site in front of you: opening, how i work, recent work, enquiries. The changes receipt reads: Added: 4 sections - opening, how i work, recent work, enquiries.
The table
Side by side, checked 21 August 2026
| Spanli | Durable | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $19/month (or $190/year) | Priced by plan tier and term — see durable.co/pricing |
| Speed to a first draft | A few minutes — it reads your description and builds to it | Famously fast — a complete draft in well under a minute |
| Getting to YOUR site | Describe, then refine by asking — as specific as you care to be | Regenerate and swap sections, or edit them yourself in their editor |
| How you change it later | Type a sentence. Forever. | Their editor and section regeneration |
| Vocabulary it expects | Plain English | Plain English too — with an editor for the details |
| Published site | Static files on a CDN | Their platform |
| What else is in the box | The site. Forms and content collections are built in. | Small-business extras: CRM, invoicing, marketing tools |
| Ads or badges on your site | None | None on paid plans |
| Track record | New. Judge ours by building one. | One of the best-known instant AI builders |
Durable pricing varies by region, term length and current offers, so we don’t print their numbers here — check durable.co/pricing directly before deciding. The product comparisons above reflect Durable as publicly documented on 21 August 2026. Ours are in full at /pricing.
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Where Durable is genuinely better
Three reasons to choose them instead
Nothing is faster to a first draft
Durable's pitch is a site in about thirty seconds, and it delivers a credible one. If today's job is to exist online by lunch, that speed is real and it counts.
Business tools ride along
A simple CRM, invoicing, marketing helpers — for a one-person service business that wants one login for the whole back office, those extras do real work.
It asks very little of you
Answer a couple of questions and it's done. If you actively don't want to be involved in what the site says or how it looks, Durable's hands-off default is the point.
Where we're different
Three reasons to try this instead
Iteration is the product
An instant draft is generic by construction — it hasn't heard enough of you yet to be anything else. Spanli reads your description, builds to it, and then takes direction: “warmer voice, lead with the guarantee, add the three real projects” — until the site is specifically yours.
Precision without an editor
When an instant builder's draft isn't right, your options are regenerate or open the editor and drive. Here specificity doesn't move you into a tool: the more precisely you say it, the more precisely it's built — in the same conversation.
Every page, checked
Each build runs design and accessibility audits — contrast, mobile layout, tap targets — before the site ships. Speed matters; we spend a few extra minutes so the fast version is also a checked one.
Make it yours
“New. Judge ours by building one.” — here's the range.
- Quietly exceptionalElegant & refined
- The story, up frontBold & editorial
- Take a breathSoft & calm
- Built for the nightSleek & dark
- An evening to rememberGlamorous & vintage
- The season, consideredFashion magazine
Who should pick which
The straight version
Pick Durable if you need to exist online today with minimal involvement, or if the bundled CRM and invoicing would genuinely replace tools you'd otherwise pay for.
Pick Spanli if you want the site to end up unmistakably yours — refined by asking, as specific as you care to get — and checked before it ships, even if that takes minutes instead of seconds.
Build one and see
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