Vilkas review

Vilkas lists plans from €42, and the store plan sits at the same €42. Both figures sit above the site median of €13.15 for price from, so the entry point is not the cheapest in the comparison. Budget for the store tier if you plan to sell online from the start.

There is no free plan to fall back on. Instead the model is free trial and the trial lasts 30 days, at the longer end of the site median of 14. You can test the site and store tools in that window and pick a plan afterwards.

Support runs on email, phone and help centre. That means email and a phone line as well as a help centre, so a store owner with a broken checkout or a domain question can call rather than wait for a written reply. Chat is not among email, phone and help centre, so live help runs through the phone and email routes.

The builder types are site and store, so the same product covers a marketing site and a store rather than sending you to a separate tool. The audience it is written for is beginners, small business and enterprise, which means the walkthroughs suit a new site or a small team rather than a large in-house department.

Vilkas is operated by Vilkas Group Oy, registered in Finland. Entry pricing is quoted in €42, with support following Finnish working hours. Because the product covers both sites and stores (site and store), it appears against both groupings here, and you deal with one company for the whole site and shop.

Vilkas starts at €42, while Ko-fi lists $12 and Shafrik XOF 9,900, each quoted in its own currency. Vilkas sits well above the middle of the field on price from, and above Ko-fi's entry point by a wide gap, so the phone line and help centre (email, phone and help centre) have to earn that difference.

The template count is 20, which is a small library for a builder that handles both sites and stores (site and store). Expect to lean more on customisation than on picking from a large catalogue, especially if your layout is not a close match to what the themes already cover.

Vilkas ranks 172 of 199 on price from and 131 of 160 on the store plan price. Its entry price of €42 sits above the matching medians of €13.15 and €14, and the overall score is 4.2, split 4.7 on cost and 3.6 on offer.