# Portfoliobox review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Portfolio website builder with a built-in AI editor and a free plan Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Portfoliobox is a portfolio site builder aimed at photographers, artists, designers and similar creatives. A free plan gives a Portfoliobox subdomain with 30 images, and paid plans lift the limits and add a custom domain. The editor includes an AI assistant that makes pages and edits the site from written requests. - **Category:** Website & Landing Page Builders - **Made by:** Portfoliobox - **Website:** https://www.portfoliobox.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you have more than 30 images, since that is the free plan's cap and Personal stops at 150. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Portfoliobox has a free plan, and paid plans start at $8.90 per month, billed yearly ($12.90 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 30 images, 25 pages, a Portfoliobox subdomain, Portfoliobox branding and 25 AI requests a month. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 30 images, 25 pages, 3 products, a Portfoliobox subdomain and mobile-responsive layouts. | | Personal | $8.90 per month, billed yearly ($12.90 billed monthly) | 150 images, 50 pages, 100 blog posts, custom domain and 250 AI requests a month. | | Professional | $15.90 per month, billed yearly ($22.90 billed monthly) | 1,000 images and pages, store with 0% commission, bookings, invoices, quotes, custom email and analytics. | Read from https://www.portfoliobox.com/pricing?currency=usd on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Portfoliobox before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Yearly billing and a first-year domain** (Annual discount): Yearly costs $8.90 and $15.90 a month against $12.90 and $22.90 monthly, and yearly plans include a new domain for the first year. Source: https://www.portfoliobox.com/pricing?currency=usd ## Key features - **AI editor:** An assistant built into the editor creates pages, galleries and menu entries from written requests, with monthly request caps by plan. - **Gallery layouts:** Full-bleed, grid, masonry, slideshow and lightbox layouts for showing images. - **Store with no commission:** Professional includes an e-commerce store where Portfoliobox takes 0% commission. - **Bookings, invoices and quotes:** Professional adds appointment bookings, invoices and quotes, with up to 1,000 of each. - **Custom domain:** Personal and Professional include a custom domain; yearly plans cover registration for the first year on eligible extensions. - **Hosting, SSL and SEO tools:** Included on every plan, with meta titles, descriptions and a sitemap. ## Good for - Artists, photographers and designers who need a small portfolio - People who want to start on a free plan - Creatives who want bookings and invoicing next to the portfolio ## Worth knowing - The free plan caps at 30 images and keeps Portfoliobox branding and a subdomain. - Custom email, analytics and removal of branding are Professional-only. - Monthly plans do not include a domain; domains renew at the standard rate after the first year. - Prices exclude VAT, which depends on the billing country. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Portfoliobox has a free plan and paid plans for creative portfolios, with an AI assistant that writes pages from a request. The free plan stops at 30 images with Portfoliobox branding, and the store, bookings and removing branding are on the top plan. - **Value for money: C.** $8.90 a month yearly for Personal and $15.90 for Professional, against a category middle of $12 a month. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan, but 30 images, 3 products, a Portfoliobox subdomain and its branding is a cap you will hit. - **Features: C.** Gallery layouts, an AI editor, custom domain, hosting and SEO tools. Store, bookings, invoices, custom email and analytics are Professional only. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You build the pages yourself, with the AI assistant to help. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, and no integrations are on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Portfoliobox's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among website and landing page builders - Portfoliobox's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 16 of the 104 other website and landing page builders we grade, and level with 23. - Its paid plans start at $8.90 a month, against a middle price of $11.50 for the category: 34 of the 89 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 22 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/website-builders ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Portfoliobox you would be making checkout, card payments and sales tax handled for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 65 of the 104 other website and landing page builders grade higher. It costs $106.80 a year. - You could make: Templates, appointment booking, invoicing and quotes and estimates: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Checkout, card payments and sales tax handled for you. - You could not: A builder that other people can use without writing code. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Templates, Online store, AI features, Appointment booking, Invoicing, Quotes and estimates, No-code ## Alternatives - [Format](https://toolgpa.com/tools/format): Portfolio website builder for photographers and other creatives. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/format-vs-portfoliobox) - [Adobe Portfolio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/adobe-portfolio): Portfolio website builder included with Creative Cloud. 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