ChaiBuilder ships with Payload CMS wired into a visual builder, runs on your own database, and stays a plain Next.js + Payload app you fully control.
Build your first branded client site in the trial.
Real code you control - not a walled garden.
A Payload CMS website builder is a visual page-building layer on top of Payload CMS, so you get structured content management and visual site building together.
With ChaiBuilder, Payload is wired in out of the box. The builder and the CMS understand each other's structure, so you don't assemble the integration yourself. Structured content (blogs and collections) lives in Payload; visual pages live in the builder.
Payload is the out-of-the-box CMS for structured content such as blogs, set up for you by the ChaiBuilder CLI.
The visual builder handles pages; Payload handles structured content; the two are wired together.
The concrete workflow Payload devs are searching for.
Bind Payload content and data into page elements in the builder.
Plug your own collections and logic into Payload - it's purely Payload CMS - and surface them in the builder.
There is no coupling between Payload's tables and ChaiBuilder's page tables. Payload is the default, not a requirement - if you ever want a different CMS, you can swap it without unwinding anything.
Developers build it. Editors run it.
Override pages and routing. Plug in your own Payload collections. Extend the builder with custom blocks and panels. Anything the visual builder can't do, you build — by design, not as a workaround.
Build and publish pages with no code. Role-based access control keeps the right people editing the right things — no developer bottleneck, no risky changes.
An in-builder chat panel that edits content, creates and edits sections, and helps with SEO and theming — all in plain language.
Bring your own database - Postgres, SQLite, or any supported storage. All website content, registered users, and actions live in your database. ChaiBuilder has no access to any of it.
ChaiBuilder is delivered as code you deploy on your own stack. You host it, you run it - there is no vendor-hosted runtime for your site.
Every license unlocks the entire product. Plans differ by domains and branding, never by features. There are no feature flags and nothing to upgrade into.
Ownership isn't a plan tier or an add-on here - it's the architecture.
Multi-tenant, managed or self-hostable.
Embedded in your app, with source-code access.
30-day trial - no credit card, no email.
Licenses are perpetual within a version window - valid through the end of your year and eligible for any chaipro version released in that window. Renew to stay current.
In your own database - SQLite or Postgres. All website content, registered users, and actions live there. ChaiBuilder has no access to any of it.
You do. ChaiBuilder is delivered as code you self-host; there is no vendor-hosted runtime for your site.
Yes. A deployed site is a plain Next.js + Payload app on your own database and hosting, so there is no vendor lock-in to unwind.
Deploy the starter in minutes. No credit card, no email. When you're ready, pick a plan that fits.
The Visual Website Builder
You Actually Own. React + Next.js, low-code, self-hosted. Your data, your infrastructure, every feature included.
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