The all-new Zoho Sites: An AI website builder for modern businesses

For decades, building a website was a manual process. Everyone started with the same blank canvas, which later evolved into picking a template, and editing, arranging sections, writing content, and evolving with your needs.

But this is changing, fast.

Presenting the all-new Zoho Sites, a website-building experience where AI is central to the process of creation, customisation, and extension. This is our biggest update yet.

With the all-new Zoho Sites, you start with an idea instead of a blank page, describe what you want to build in natural language, and AI generates a complete website with structure, pages, layouts, content, images, and styling. From there, you can refine the site visually in the Site Builder or continue your conversation with AI. In other words, you're in charge.

Other big updates include the way content is structured, dynamic pages, developer extensions, and website management with MCP.

Start with a prompt  

Zoho Sites now takes care of the entire website-building process, right from the start. You define the pages you need, how they should be organised, how your homepage should look, and what kind of content you want on each page. Then let the AI take over.

Describe everything in natural language, and provide details such as your preferred style or intended audience. Zoho Sites uses that context to generate a website, which includes:

• Website structure and navigation

• Relevant pages

• Section layouts

• Headings and content

• Images and visual elements

• Theme and styling

Next, you can just begin editing it in the Site Builder and customise every part of it using the visual editor. Or continue with the built-in AI chat to make changes.

You decide where to take it.

Keep up with content  

A website can start small, but just like a new business, it rarely stays that way.

Product catalogs grow, team directories change, and services evolve. After a point, creating individual pages for every new piece of content starts to feel wasteful.

We're addressing this with Collections and Dynamic Pages, giving websites a structured foundation for managing content at scale.

Collections let you organize information in one place. You can create a collection for products, team members, events, testimonials, services, properties, FAQs, and other types of content, then define every data field for each item.

Dynamic Pages build on that foundation.

Instead of designing every page individually, Zoho Sites creates one reusable page layout and connects it to a collection. Each collection item can then generate its own webpage using that layout, without your intervention.

So, for example, a real estate website could maintain property information in a collection and use one Dynamic Page layout for every listing. When the underlying content changes, the corresponding pages reflect those updates without requiring you to redesign each page.

By separating content management from webpages, Zoho Sites makes it easy to build websites that scale. Add new content, update existing information, or reorganize your data, and your website stays consistent without the repetitive work.

Designed around the way you work  

AI can accelerate the starting point, but website owners still need control over the final experience.

That's why we've redesigned the Site Builder from the ground up.

The new visual workspace brings website creation and management together. Arrange sections and elements, customize their appearance, add animations, manage navigation, adjust themes, preview responsive layouts, and publish changes all from one place.

The builder includes prebuilt sections and elements for common website needs, along with tools for managing page structure through the Layers panel. You can also save frequently used components as reusable elements and use them across your website.

And when you want AI to help with those changes, it's right there in the builder. With Ask Zia, you can use natural language to make site and page level changes, update content and styles, and even modify your site's theme and settings. You can also choose the AI model that best fits your needs or connect supported models using your own API key.

MCP  

With Zoho Sites MCP, you can connect Zoho Sites to supported AI platforms such as Claude and Cursor and work with your website through prompts.

You can then use AI to create and edit websites and pages, manage collections, work with forms and elements, update website content, and publish changes.

This creates another way to work with your website: describe the action you want to take, and the connected AI platform can translate that instruction into website actions.

The result is a website workflow that can move from generation to customization to ongoing management with AI involved throughout the process.

Extend more

Developers can now build Custom Elements using MCP and create reusable components for specialized website requirements. These React-based components can extend Zoho Sites with custom functionality and experiences beyond what's available out of the box.

That opens the door to more than just extending an individual website. Developers can create reusable components that can be used across projects and implementations, giving them more flexibility to build tailored website experiences.

As the developer ecosystem grows, the upcoming Zoho Sites Marketplace will provide a space to discover and share reusable components, applications, and website designs.

Developers and partners can build once, reuse across implementations, and, over time, make those extensions available to more Zoho Sites users.

Plans designed to scale with your ambition

A modern website builder requires a pricing model that reflects how modern businesses grow. Rather than rigid one-size-fits-all tiers, the new Zoho Sites offers four tailored plans:

• Lite ($1/month): Perfect for launchpads, link-in-bio pages, and minimalist single-page sites.

• Basic ($8/month): Ideal for small businesses needing up to 5 core pages.

• Plus ($15/month): Unlocks larger page limits (up to 25 pages), Collections, and increased file storage.

• Advanced ($40/month): Built for power users with up to 100 pages, 10k monthly form submissions, and enterprise bandwidth.
   

Welcome to the all-new Zoho Sites  

In summary:

• Use AI to generate the initial structure, content, imagery, and styling, and refine further with the Site Builder or continue working with AI.

• Organize content through Collections and use Dynamic Pages to turn that content into consistent webpages.

• With MCP, you can work with your website through supported AI platforms beyond the builder itself.

• Developers can extend the experience with Custom Elements.

The all-new Zoho Sites is built for the new reality: helping you go from an idea to a live website faster, giving you complete creative control, and providing the tools to build, manage, and scale your online presence as it grows.

What this means for existing websites  

The all-new Zoho Sites is more than a redesign. It is built on a completely new technology stack created from the ground up to support modern AI website generation, real-time dynamic content, and extensible developer tools.

Existing websites will continue running uninterrupted on your current plan and platform. Meanwhile, every new website you create today will leverage the new architecture, giving you instant access to the AI-driven builder, Dynamic Pages, and MCP integrations from day one.

The future of website building starts with a conversation. Try the new experience today.