Comparison
kwaku vs Google Sites.
Google Sites costs nothing, and it's honest about it — the templates read as an internal company wiki or a school project, not a real business or personal site. Kwaku costs $30, once, and looks like it was actually designed.
The honest read
If the bar is "get any page live for free," Google Sites clears it. It's free forever, it integrates cleanly with Google Workspace if you're already in that ecosystem, and for a purely internal page — a shared team resource, event details for people who already know you — it's genuinely fine.
Where it falls short is anywhere the site represents you to strangers: a business someone's deciding whether to trust, a portfolio meant to make a first impression. Google Sites' templates are functional, not designed — plain blocks, default typography, nothing that signals "this is a real, established thing." Kwaku writes a site with an actual design language chosen for what you described, real photography if you need it, and copy that reads like a real business wrote it, not a form fill-in.
If the page is genuinely internal-only and free is the only requirement, Google Sites does that job. Once the site needs to convince anyone of anything, the free look becomes the cost.
Side by side
| kwaku | Google Sites | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | $30 once for a pack of 200 edits. | Free, forever. |
| Design quality | A real design language picked for what you described — looks professionally made. | Plain, functional blocks. Reads as an internal page, not a public-facing one. |
| How you build | Describe the site in chat. The AI writes it and ships it live. | Drag simple blocks — text, images, embeds — onto a page. |
| Custom domain | Yes, free TLS, included in the pack. | Yes, if you own one through Google Domains or another registrar. |
| Best for | A real business, portfolio, or personal site meant to be seen by strangers. | An internal team page or something only people who already know you will see. |
Where each one wins
Pick Google Sites when the page is genuinely internal, cost has to be zero, and looking designed doesn't matter.
Pick kwaku when the site represents you to people who don't already know you, and looking like a real, professional thing actually matters — for one $30 payment.