SiteSeeker vs SiteDrop AI: Which Is Better for Selling Websites?

SiteSeeker and SiteDrop AI are built for the same person: someone who finds local businesses without a website, builds them one with AI and sells it. Both tools find leads, generate sites and host them. The real differences are in how many leads you get for your money, how you choose which ones to call, and how the client ends up paying you.

Disclosure: the SiteSeeker team wrote this comparison, so we make one of the two products. We tried to be fair. Every SiteDrop fact below comes from SiteDrop's own public pages, checked on September 26 and 27, 2026, and is linked. Prices and features change. If something here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will correct it.

Quick verdict

SiteSeeker is the pick if you sell websites to local businesses for a living. It gives you far more lead searches for the money, scores every lead from 0 to 100, and lets clients pay, and keep paying for maintenance, through a Stripe checkout. SiteDrop AI costs less to start, returns email and social contacts with its leads, and takes no cut because it sends invoices instead of running the payment.

SiteSeekerOur pick

Best for designers who prospect several niches and towns every month and want clients to pay through a checkout, with maintenance billed automatically.

SiteDrop AI

Best for testing the idea at the lowest monthly price, with PDF invoices, no platform fee and email addresses on its leads.

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SiteSeeker vs SiteDrop AI at a glance

Twenty rows, grouped by the job you are doing. SiteDrop wins some of them, and we marked those plainly.

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SiteSeeker and SiteDrop AI compared

Feature	Our pickSiteSeeker	SiteDrop AI
Finding clients
Finds businesses with no website listed	Included: Google Maps listings	Included: Google Business data
Lead searches a month, entry plan1	200 search credits	5 searches
Several niches and cities in one search	Included: up to 20 niche x city pairs	Not shown
Lead quality score with review recency	Included: 0 to 100	Not shown
Contact data on each lead	Phone number	Phone, email and social signals
CRM pipeline2	Included: 8 stages, notes, activity log	Not shown
AI cold-call scripts	Included	Not shown
Building sites
AI site built from a saved lead's listing3	Included: name, address, hours and reviews	Included
Edit by chat	Included	Included
Version history and rollback	Included	Not shown
Code export	Included: ZIP and GitHub sync	Not shown
Selling and billing
How the client pays	Stripe checkout with payouts to you	PDF invoice, paid to you directly
Recurring maintenance billing4	Included	Not shown
Platform fee on client payments5	2% one-time, 1% maintenance	None
Preview view and click tracking6	Partial: ZIP and GitHub deploys only	Not shown
Hosting and domains
Host sites built elsewhere	Included: ZIP, GitHub and SSR projects	Not shown
Buy a domain in the app	Included	Included
Pricing
Entry plan, monthly	$29	$25
Entry plan, billed yearly	$290 a year	$199 a year
Refunds	30-day money-back guarantee	Non-refundable once a period starts

"Not shown" means we did not find it on SiteDrop's public pages. It does not prove the feature is missing, so ask SiteDrop if one of those rows matters to you.

Why sellers pick SiteSeeker

Finding leads: the biggest difference

Both tools search Google's local business data and flag businesses without a website. SiteDrop says its Lead Finder covers "200M+ local businesses", enriched with phone, email and social signals, and exports to CSV. That enrichment is a real advantage. SiteSeeker gives you the phone number from the listing and nothing more, so if you prospect mainly by email, SiteDrop hands you more to work with per lead.

The gap is volume and focus. SiteDrop's Starter plan includes 5 lead searches a month at up to 50 results each, Pro includes 25 and Business 100. SiteSeeker Pro includes 200 search credits a month and Max includes 500. Each niche in each city costs 1 credit in a quick search and 4 in a comprehensive one, results have no plan cap, searches served from cache cost nothing, and failed searches are refunded. A single search can cover up to 5 niches and up to 5 cities, 20 combinations at most, so "plumbers, roofers and electricians in three nearby towns" is one search (it uses 9 credits).

SiteSeeker also returns only businesses with no website listed, then scores each one from 0 to 100. The score weighs the rating, whether the listing is claimed, distance, keyword relevance and how recently the business got a review. That last signal matters most in practice: a plumber with 40 reviews and nothing new in two years is a worse call than one with 12 reviews from last month. Our guide on finding businesses without websites explains why.

Building the site

Both builders take a short description and produce a site you refine by chatting, and both can build a page for a lead you found. SiteDrop also lets you click to edit and advertises "Unlimited Revisions". SiteSeeker's AI website builder starts from the saved lead's listing, so the build uses the business's own name, address, hours and filtered Google reviews. It keeps a version history you can roll back to, lets you use stock photos, AI images or the owner's own, and exports the code as a ZIP or syncs it to GitHub.

Two honest limits on our side. SiteSeeker's builder makes single-page sites, and it launched in August 2026, so it is still changing quickly. We have not run both builders on the same business, so we will not tell you whose output looks better. Build a site for the same real lead in each tool and judge for yourself.

Getting paid by the client

This is the biggest practical difference after lead volume.

SiteDrop gives you invoicing: you create invoices, send them as PDFs and track who has paid. "Your clients pay you directly," and SiteDrop says it does not touch the money, so it takes no cut.

SiteSeeker runs the payment. You set a sale price, share a purchase link that shows the site beside the offer, and the client pays through Stripe checkout into your payout account. You can add monthly maintenance, which becomes its own subscription, so the fee arrives every month without chasing. There is a 2% platform fee on the one-time sale, which you can pass to the buyer, and 1% on maintenance.

Sites you deploy from a ZIP upload or a GitHub repo also get a conversion bar that counts views and clicks. Sites made in the AI builder do not; they get the purchase link with a price. For what to charge in the first place, see how much to charge for a website.

Hosting, domains and cancelling

Both tools host the sites they build, let you connect a custom domain and let you buy one without leaving the app. On SiteSeeker, SSL is set up automatically and domains are bought through Namecheap.

SiteSeeker also hosts sites you did not build with it: ZIP uploads, GitHub sync and server-rendered projects on frameworks such as Next.js, Remix, SvelteKit, Astro and Lovable's TanStack builds. Pro covers 50 hosted sites and Max 100. If you already manage client sites elsewhere, that puts them in one dashboard. Our guide to hosting client websites covers how to charge for it.

Ask every hosted builder what happens to client sites if you stop paying. SiteDrop's terms are direct: "When your subscription ends, websites hosted through SiteDrop will be taken offline." That is normal for hosted platforms, so ask the same of SiteSeeker and anyone else.

Pricing compared

SiteDrop is $4 a month cheaper to start, and its yearly discount is deeper: $199 a year against SiteSeeker's $290. If price is the only thing you compare, SiteDrop wins. Per lead search, SiteSeeker costs far less, and it adds a 30-day money-back guarantee, where SiteDrop's terms say payments are non-refundable once a billing period has begun.

What the AI credits buy

On SiteSeeker, a website build reserves up to 15 AI credits (30 with AI images) and is charged for what it actually uses. Chat edits reserve up to 12, and call scripts and website prompts cost 1 each. Extra credits are a monthly add-on at $0.10 per credit, and unused credits roll over up to twice your monthly grant.

SiteDrop's cost per site is not clear from public sources. Its terms say "Standard site generation consumes approximately 5 credits; individual edits consume 1 credit," while other public answers say building does not use credits at all. SiteDrop sells credit top-ups. Until the build cost is settled, we will not claim either tool gets you more sites per dollar.

SiteDrop AI pros and cons

SiteDrop AI

Pros

• Lowest entry price, $25 a month, and $199 billed yearly.
• Leads come with email and social signals, not just a phone number.
• No platform fee, because the client pays you directly from a PDF invoice.
• Buy and connect a domain inside the app.
• Preview links update live and include client approval.

Cons

• Starter includes 5 lead searches a month, and Pro 25, at up to 50 results each.
• No lead score or review recency check shown.
• Invoices only, with no checkout shown. It lists 'Recurring Revenue' as a feature but does not describe recurring billing.
• No hosting shown for sites built in other tools.
• Payments are non-refundable once a billing period has begun.

SiteSeeker

Pros

• 200 or 500 search credits a month, and one search can cover up to 20 niche and city combinations.
• Every lead scored 0 to 100, with a review recency check.
• Stripe checkout with payouts, plus automatic maintenance billing.
• Hosts AI-built sites and sites from ZIP, GitHub and SSR frameworks.
• CRM pipeline, AI call scripts and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Cons

• Costs $4 more a month to start, and more when billed yearly.
• 2% fee on one-time sales and 1% on maintenance paid through checkout.
• Phone numbers only. No email or social enrichment.
• The AI builder makes single-page sites and is newer.
• No follow-up reminders in the CRM, and the Pitch Kit is fixed email and SMS templates.

Who should pick SiteDrop AI instead

Pick SiteDrop AI if you are testing whether selling websites is for you and want the smallest bill for a first month, if you prospect mostly by email and want addresses on the lead, or if your clients are happy paying an invoice and you already have a way to collect. It covers the whole loop at a low price. Just check the build credit cost with SiteDrop before you plan around volume.

How to try SiteSeeker alongside SiteDrop

You do not have to switch everything at once. Run both for a month on the same town and compare what you close.

1. 1

   Run one multi-niche search

   Pick several trades and nearby cities in the Lead Finder, up to 20 combinations, and search once. Each trade and city pair uses a credit, and every result has no website listed.

2. 2

   Call the highest scores first

   Start with the highest 0 to 100 scores, save the best leads to the pipeline and generate a cold-call script for the ones you plan to ring.

3. 3

   Build from a saved lead

   Start the AI build from the lead so it uses the business's own name, hours and reviews, then refine it in chat.

4. 4

   Set a price and share the link

   Add a sale price and optional monthly maintenance, then send the purchase link after the call.

5. 5

   Move sites you already host

   If you have the files for an existing client site, upload the ZIP or connect its GitHub repo, then point the domain at SiteSeeker.

Which one to choose

If your bottleneck is finding enough good leads and getting paid on time, SiteSeeker is built around exactly that: more searches, a score that ranks who to call, and a checkout that collects the sale and the maintenance. If your bottleneck is budget and you prefer invoices, SiteDrop AI is a reasonable, cheaper start.

Neither tool guarantees a sale. A business with no website and a ready preview gets you a conversation, not a client. Our walkthrough on how to sell websites to local businesses covers the rest, and pricing has the current plans. Still comparing? See our roundup of SiteDrop alternatives or SiteSeeker vs Lovable.