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Now with advanced Tailwind support

The Tailwind CSS website builder your editors can actually use.

Design tokens and a theme system keep every page consistent: developers define the system, editors work inside it, no CSS required. Self-hosted, every feature included.

For platforms and agencies running many sites. Building one or two? The open-source core is free.

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Built on
React
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
Payload CMS

Real code you control, not a walled garden.

A standard Next.js app on your own database and hosting, with real Tailwind classes throughout. No lock-in, no proprietary formats, no compromises.

What is a Tailwind CSS website builder?

A visual builder for producing utility-styled, consistently designed pages without hand-writing CSS for every element. You design with pre-built utility classes that control spacing, color, typography, and layout directly in your markup.

ChaiBuilder takes this further by centering on a design system you encode once. Instead of rebuilding for every re-skin, you define:

  • Design tokens for spacing, color, and typography that propagate everywhere
  • A theme system for site-wide presentation that keeps every page consistent

The result? A re-skin isn't a rebuild. Change your tokens, and the entire site updates cohesively.

System Architecture

Design tokens: style once and reuse everywhere

Custom design classes for consistent, reusable styling across your entire site. Build faster with a unified system that eliminates manual tweaks and visual inconsistency.

Change your tokens, change your site

Update a single token and watch every page, every component, and every section refresh instantly. No rebuilds required. One change, everywhere.

Spacing tokens

Maintain perfect rhythm with consistent padding, margins, and gaps across all components.

Color tokens

A semantic color system that adapts automatically to different themes and brand requirements.

Typography tokens

Define font families, sizes, and weights once to ensure readable, professional type everywhere.

Component tokens

Pre-built styles for buttons, inputs, and cards that stay perfectly in sync across your site.

On-brand by default

Editors stay on-brand by default

Guardrails built in

Editors work visually inside the design system with role-based access control - on-brand without policing.

AI helps with theming

The in-builder AI assistant adjusts theme and styling on request - no CSS.

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Reuse across projects

One system, many sites

Encode a design system once and re-skin it per project instead of rebuilding. Especially valuable for agencies shipping many client sites, one token set powers every brand without starting from scratch.

For agencies
Single source
Design system & tokens
Feature grid

The rest of the builder comes with it

Design tokens

Reusable design classes across the site.

Theme system

Site-wide, themeable presentation.

Visual builder

Pages built on a visual canvas, no deploys for content.

Custom blocks & panels

Developers extend the builder with their own components.

Media manager & image editor

Assets managed and edited in the builder.

Multilingual

Content in multiple languages.

Multi-user editing

Page locking keeps parallel editors safe.

One-click publish

Changes live in a single action.

Preview mode

Review before it goes live.

Revisions & restore

Any page, back to any version.

Every feature ships in every license - no feature flags.

Pricing

Two ways to run ChaiBuilder.

Open source

FreeBSD-3-Clause license

The chaicore visual builder for your Next.js app. For individuals, teams and single agencies.

  • Visual builder, page storage and rendering
  • Build sites for yourself or your clients
  • Self-host it anywhere
Start with open source

Platform

For many sites
One yearly licenseunlimited sites

chaipro for agencies and platforms that run many websites, plus build services to get you live. One fee for your whole platform, quoted to your scale. No per-site fees.

  • Multi-tenancy, with your brand inside the builder
  • The MCP server for AI agents, included
  • Roles, revisions, multilingual and every other feature
  • Build services: integration, custom blocks, migration, rollout
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Delivered as a White Label Solution (multi-tenant, managed or self-hosted) or a Custom Integration (embedded in your own app). Pricing is quoted on the call.

Every Platform deployment includes the entire feature set and the MCP server. One yearly license for your whole platform: no per-site fees, no per-seat pricing, no AI credits, no feature tiers.

Developers can evaluate chaipro with a 30-day trial from the get-started page. No credit card, no email.

Dual Audience Power

Developers build it.
Editors run it.

A unified workflow that bridges the gap between engineering control and content velocity.

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For Developers

It is a developer-first plugin in your Next.js app. Override pages and routing, add custom blocks and panels, and connect your own CMS and data. Payload CMS is optional. You get full flexibility with no closed black boxes.

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For Editors

Whoever runs a site, your team or your customers, gets role-based visual editing. Build, refine and publish pages with no reliance on engineering, while staying inside your design system.

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Ownership by design

Own everything you build

Hosted builders rent you a website on their platform. ChaiBuilder runs inside your own app, so the data, the servers and the full feature set stay with you.

01

Own your data

Bring your own database: SQLite or Postgres. All website content, registered users and actions live in your database. ChaiBuilder has no access to any of it.

ChaiBuilder: your content is stored in your own database
02

Own your infrastructure

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.

ChaiBuilder: deployed on your own infrastructure
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No feature tiers

A Platform license unlocks the entire product, the MCP server included. No feature flags, no per-seat pricing, nothing to upgrade into.

ChaiBuilder: every feature included in every license

Ownership isn't a plan tier or an add-on here. It's the architecture.

Own the websites your platform runs.

See ChaiBuilder running multi-tenant inside your own product, with sites kept current by your team, your members and their agents. Or start with the open-source core.

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