AI site builder
Siteshare vs Bolt
Bolt builds sites and apps from a prompt, with visual edits and hosting on bolt.host. Siteshare gives the client a site is handed over to an editor of their own, and leaves the hosting to you.
| Question | Siteshare | Bolt |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | An editor at the client's own site, /edit, on the site you built | An AI builder for sites and apps, with hosting |
| How a client edits | Chat, select or draw on the real site; double-click to type | Shared as an Editor: chat, or visual edits with Select |
| Whose AI budget | The team's monthly budget; typing on the page is free | Prompts use tokens from the account of the person prompting |
| Before it goes live | A draft, a build check on a clean copy, then one commit on main | Changes are live after someone clicks Update |
| Where the site lives | Your GitHub repository and your own host | Bolt Cloud (bolt.host), or Netlify, or a download; GitHub sync by the owner |
| Limits per client | Four levels per client; changes above wait for approval | Viewer, Editor (prompt, edit code, publish) and Co-owner |
| Price | Free for 1 site, then $9 a site a month, down to $4 as you grow (5 sites $36, 20 sites $126); clients and builders unlimited | Free (1M tokens a month), Pro $18, Teams $27 per member a month, billed annually |
Made for building, or for handing over
Bolt gives a collaborator the builder itself: as an Editor they can prompt, edit code and publish, using tokens from their own account. That suits a co-builder; for a client who wants to change a price, it’s more power and more to learn than they need.
Siteshare gives the client their own site, at /edit, and nothing else. By default they change text and images; anything beyond waits for your approval. Every publish is built on a clean copy first and lands as one commit on your main branch, so a change that doesn’t build never goes live.
Keep your host
Bolt hosts on bolt.host, with Netlify or a download as alternatives. Siteshare doesn’t host: your site stays where you put it, and whatever deploys your main branch keeps doing so.
When Bolt is the better choice
- You're still building and want building, hosting and sharing in one place.
- The site doesn't need to live in your own GitHub or on your own host.
- The people editing are comfortable with a builder that can also change code.
Questions
Can I use Siteshare on a site built with Bolt?
Yes, if the project is in a GitHub repository and runs on Node or is plain HTML. Your host deploys the main branch, and Siteshare's publishes arrive there as commits.
Does a client need a Bolt account?
For Siteshare, no: clients sign in at their own site with a code from their email. To edit in Bolt, collaborators need a Bolt account.
Hand it over. Get your evenings back.
Free for one site, forever. No card needed.