We are testing AI website builders with the same fictional local cleaning business brief. This page is the public test log: early evidence, blockers, and what a nontechnical business owner should check before trusting a generated site.
The first completed private-draft run was fast, but it also invented business details. That is the exact failure mode small-business owners need to catch before putting an AI-generated website in front of customers.
Current best evidence: Hostinger Website Builder produced an inspectable private draft without payment, domain connection, or public publishing. It scored 2.55 / 5 in our first run because it was editable and quick, but materially inaccurate.
Our synthetic business is Danube Home Cleaning, a local cleaning service with defined service areas, pricing ranges, booking requirements, and must-not-invent constraints. We score tools against the brief rather than judging the prettiest homepage.
Status: Private draft generated and scored
Setup: ~4 min
Score: 2.55 / 5
Fast editor access and easy first inspection, but the generated draft changed the business name, invented a discount and contact details, and missed important booking-form requirements.
Status: Signup stalled before draft
Setup: Reached account gate
Score: Not scored
No payment, custom-domain, CAPTCHA, or publish prompt appeared before the account-creation submit action stopped advancing in the scheduled test browser.
Status: Human-verification blocked signup
Setup: ~2 min to blocker
Score: Not scored
The free account path reached a Cloudflare “verify you are human” challenge before any account, draft, payment, domain, or publishing step existed.
Status: reCAPTCHA blocked signup
Setup: ~3 min to blocker
Score: Not scored
The free account path reached Google reCAPTCHA before any account, draft, payment, domain, or publishing step existed.
Status: Availability checked only
Setup: Pending
Score: Not scored
Public docs show a 7-day trial, but the payment-method and Site Lock paid-feature boundary needs verification before a fair hands-on run.
Status: Availability checked only
Setup: Pending
Score: Not scored
The free plan is relevant for staging, but export/self-hosting docs need follow-up before this can be recommended for a small-business owner worried about portability.
Status: Availability checked only
Setup: Pending
Score: Not scored
Free staging exists, but code export is paid-gated and excludes or breaks key dynamic features such as forms, CMS, search, ecommerce, and password protection.
Hostinger gave us an inspectable first draft quickly, but the draft renamed the fictional business to Čistuma, invented a 10% first-booking discount, and created cistuma.sk contact details that were not in the brief. It also missed several requested booking-form fields.
That does not mean the tool is useless. It means the safe workflow is: generate privately, check every claim against your real business details, remove invented promises, and only then consider publishing.
No affiliate links are used on this page. No payment method, personal owner account, custom domain, or public generated test site was used for these runs. Scores remain blank for tools where we did not obtain a generated output.
Last updated: May 27, 2026. Next evidence goal: continue no-payment/private-draft tests where signup verification is accessible, and publish only scores that have raw output, screenshot, timing, and run-sheet evidence.