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Tilda or custom code: which to choose

Tilda suits a landing page, a demand test and a site of a few pages that your team edits on its own. Code is needed when the site has a catalog, customer accounts, links to a CRM, 1C or payments, and strict speed requirements. At HEXIS a landing page on Tilda, Webflow or Next.js costs from $200, a corporate site from $450, a store from $800. Below is a comparison by task and the signs that a builder is no longer enough.

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Compared by task

Choose by what the site has to do a year from now: take leads, sell from a catalog or work together with a CRM and accounting.

TaskTildaCode
Test demand or run one campaignThe best fitSlower and costlier than needed
A landing page with a form to Telegram or a CRMFitsFits
Your team edits copy and imagesA visual editorThrough a connected CMS
A catalog with filters, customer accountsWithin the ready-made modulesAny logic
Links to a CRM, 1C, inventory and paymentsThrough ready integrations and webhooksAny, with data checks
Speed on mobile dataDepends on the number of blocks and imagesIn the developer's hands
Where the site runsOn Tilda's servers while the subscription is paidOn your hosting, and the code is yours

When Tilda is enough

  • You need one page for a product, a service or an ad campaign.
  • You need to launch fast and check demand before investing in development.
  • A marketer or the owner wants to change copy, blocks and offers without a developer.
  • Leads go to Telegram, email or a CRM, and the site takes no payments and keeps no records.

When code is needed

  • A catalog of hundreds of products, filters, a cart, stock tracking and an exchange with 1C or inventory.
  • Customer accounts, pricing by your own rules, calculators and forms with logic.
  • Many different page templates, several languages and sections built around search queries.
  • Strict speed requirements, because speed affects the cost per click in ads.
  • The company has to own the site outright: the code, the hosting and the data, with no tie to a subscription.

SEO and speed

A Tilda site is indexed by Yandex and Google, and its titles, descriptions and page addresses can be set. The limits come with scale: schema.org markup, a sitemap for hundreds of pages, language versions and the speed of heavy pages are harder to control in a builder.

With code, each page is built in advance as HTML, so search engines and AI assistants read its text without running scripts. This site is built that way too.

Why this matters for AI answers is covered in “What GEO is and why a business needs it”.

What it costs at HEXIS

The format of the site sets the price. We suggest the platform for the task, and the estimate names it.

What each package includes is covered in “How much a website costs in 2026”.

How a store is built stage by stage and what to prepare for it is in “Building an online store”.

Type of sitePriceTimelineWhat we build on
Landing pagefrom $2002⁠–⁠5 daysTilda, Webflow or Next.js
Corporate sitefrom $4505 days to 2 weeksNext.js or Webflow
Online storefrom $8001⁠–⁠2 weeksShopify or Next.js

Moving from Tilda to code

Starting on Tilda and moving to code later is normal. When moving, we carry the copy over, keep the page addresses or set permanent redirects from the old ones to the new, so the site keeps its search positions. Goals in Metrika and Google Analytics are set up again and checked against the old figures.

How to get an exact quote

Fill in the brief: four short steps, about three minutes. Describe what the site should do and which services it connects to. Within a working day we send a solution, the platform and an estimate with the price and the timeline.

Questions

For a landing page or a small site the difference is small: copy, titles and speed matter more. For a site of hundreds of pages with a catalog and several languages, code gives more control over markup and speed.

The Tilda account and the domain are registered in your name, and you pay for the subscription directly. A coded site is fully yours: the code is in your repository and the hosting is in your name.

Yes. We carry the copy over and keep the addresses or set permanent redirects, so the search positions are not lost.

A landing page at HEXIS costs from $200 and takes 2⁠–⁠5 days, on any of the platforms. The Tilda subscription is paid separately, at Tilda's rates.