Mozilla Solo, the AI website builder aimed at people running a business on their own, closes on 30 November 2026. Its own homepage carries the notice, and its shutdown FAQ is unusually direct about what happens next: every website is deleted, and there is no way to recover your site, account, or data after that date.
Most of what you will read about this says the same two things. Solo is closing, download your sites before the deadline. Both true, and both leave out the part that will actually cost people something.
The export does not contain your images
This is Solo's own wording, from its shutdown FAQ. The download gives you a ZIP containing an HTML export of your website, a CSV file with links to your image assets, and your contact form and newsletter submissions.
Then it says this:
Image source files are not included in the ZIP.
Read that again if you built anything on Solo. The CSV holds links to your images. The images live on Solo's servers. Solo's servers go away on 30 November, and the links in your CSV go with them.
So the obvious action, clicking Download and filing the ZIP somewhere safe, produces a folder that looks complete and is not. You find out in December, when you open the HTML and every picture is a broken icon.
Download your images individually, before the 30th. There is no bulk option mentioned and no second chance.
Two dates, not one
Every write-up gives you 30 November. There is an earlier one that matters if you were paying.
| Date | What happens |
|---|---|
| 1 October 2026 | The date refunds are calculated as of. Already passed |
| 30 November 2026 | Operations cease, all sites deleted, nothing recoverable |
If you had an active Pro or Grow subscription, Solo says you get a prorated refund for the unused portion of your current billing period, calculated as of 1 October, paid automatically to your original payment method. You do not have to ask for it, and your subscription will not renew.
Worth checking your card statement rather than assuming. Automatic refunds are automatic until they are not.
If you bought a domain through Solo, start today
Domain transfers are the slowest item on this list because one step depends on a person replying to an email.
Solo's instructions for moving a Solo Domains registration:
- Create an account at Name.com
- Complete the required contact information
- Obtain your Account Code
- Email that code to support@soloist.ai
- Add billing information at Name.com
Step four is the one to be early about. You are sending a message to a company that is winding down, and a support queue in the last weeks of a shutdown is not a fast place. Seven weeks sounds like a lot until you are waiting on a reply in week six.
If the domain is how customers find you, this is the part that is genuinely urgent. A site you can rebuild. A domain in limbo is a business with no address.
What to do, in order
Do these in this sequence, because the slow one goes first.
1. Start the domain transfer. It is the only step that depends on someone else.
2. Download your images, one at a time. Not the ZIP, the images. The ZIP is step three.
3. Download the ZIP export. HTML, the image-links CSV, and your form and newsletter submissions. Those submissions are real data you probably cannot reconstruct: they are the people who contacted you.
4. Check for the refund if you were on Pro or Grow.
5. Then pick somewhere new. Not before. Choosing a new builder is the fun part and the part with no deadline on it.
Where to go instead
Checked on 8 October 2026. All of these resolve and serve a page.
Carrd is the closest match to what Solo was for. It has a genuinely free plan, up to three sites with all core features, which is rare in this category now. The catch is the one that matters to Solo users: custom domains are not available on the free plan. The single paid tier is $19 a year and adds custom domains with SSL, forms, embeds, analytics and branding removal. Nineteen dollars a year is close enough to free that it is worth knowing about before you commit to something costing that per month.
Durable, Framer, Wix, Hostinger and Webflow are all running. They sit at different points between "type a prompt, get a site" and "learn the tool properly", and which one fits depends mostly on whether you want to be in a design tool at all.
One small thing worth knowing: carrd.co and durable.co both redirect to their .com equivalents. If you have an old bookmark it still works.
I have not run a full test of each of these for this piece, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. What I checked was that they exist, serve a page, and that Carrd's free tier is real, because a recommendation to a free-tier audience is worthless if the free tier is a trial. Our free tools roundup covers how often that turns out not to be the case.
Why this keeps happening
Solo is the second AI product this year to close with a reasonable notice period and a clear export path, which makes it one of the better shutdowns. Plenty of others have gone dark with neither.
The pattern underneath is worth noticing if you are choosing a replacement. A free website builder from a large organisation is a product that has to keep justifying itself internally against everything else that organisation could fund. A $19-a-year tool from a small company has one job, and the money it makes is the reason it exists. Neither is safe, but they fail for different reasons and on different timescales.
The practical version: whatever you move to, find the export button before you need it. If there is not one, that is the answer.
Sourcing
Everything about the shutdown comes from Solo's own pages, read on 8 October 2026: the closure notice on soloist.ai and the shutdown FAQ at support.soloist.ai. The closure date, the ZIP contents, the line about image source files, the Name.com transfer steps and the 1 October refund calculation date are all quoted from there rather than from reporting about it.
soloist.ai was serving HTTP 200 when this was written. The product is still running, which is the only useful moment to publish something like this.
Checked and found alive on the same date: carrd.com, durable.com, framer.com, wix.com, hostinger.com, webflow.com, name.com. Carrd's free-tier details come from its own site.
One thing I could not check: whether refunds have actually reached people. If you were on Pro or Grow and nothing has appeared, that is worth chasing before the support queue gets worse.
This post sits alongside what happened to these AI tools, which tracks products that have shut down, been renamed, or are closing on a published date.
