No. 16 of 24 ·Church Website Builders

Nucleus

Name: Nucleus
Price: 65 USD

Web · paid plans from $65/mo

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One barScore 5.0

Free tierNo free tier on record
Open codeNo open-source code on record
Runs widely1 of 6 device platforms
DocumentedPlans, terms and facts published

Nucleus is ranked #16 of 24 in church website builders on Freedom251. It runs on Web. There is no free plan. A free trial is offered. Paid plans start at $65/mo.

Nucleus plans and pricing

All plans

Essential $65/mo $65 USD/month Web · The Launcher · Prayer · Flows · People · unlimited users · unlimited pages nucleus.church · 4 Oct 2026

Standard $99/mo $99 USD/month Everything in Essential · Sermons · Posts · Messages · 7 Building Blocks · Mission Control · unlimited users · unlimited pages nucleus.church · 4 Oct 2026

Complete $199/mo $199 USD/month Everything in Essential and Standard · Giving · Media · Giving available to U.S. churches only · unlimited users · unlimited pages nucleus.church · 4 Oct 2026

Compared on church website builders

Free plan: No
Paid from: $65/mo
Custom domain: Yes

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The record

Product: Nucleus combines a church website, communications tools, and congregation next steps in one platform.
Website: Web supports unlimited pages, customizable templates and layouts, custom domains, hosting, SSL, scheduled publishing, and page-level team access.
Next steps: The Launcher puts actions such as visit planning, group joining, event registration, prayer, and giving in a menu accessible across a website.
Forms: Flows provides guided forms with templates, conditional logic, capacity or deadline limits, follow-up messages, and submission reports.
Prayer: Prayer requests can be kept private or shared on a moderated Prayer Wall, with access controlled by logins, connection types, and administrator permissions.
Communications: Standard and Complete include Posts, Messages, and Mission Control for ministry updates, email campaigns, automated follow-up, and internal communication guidance.
Integrations: Flows and Posts support native Planning Center integrations, and Posts can connect to other ChMS or mailing systems through Zapier.
Giving: Nucleus Giving accepts one-time and recurring gifts, states that it does not mark up processing rates, and is available only to U.S. churches.
Giving fees: The pricing page says card processing cost is shown as 2.3% and bank-account gifts cost $0.25 with no percentage fee charged to the church.
Media: Complete includes Nucleus Media, a library of more than 30,000 church-focused creative assets that users can download as needed.
Security and privacy: Nucleus says customer churches retain rights to stored data, which it processes as a service provider or subprocessor, and says it does not sell customer data.
Support: Support includes step-by-step help documentation, live classes, and access to a real person; the homepage reports a 2-hour 3-minute average support response.
Company: Nucleus describes itself as independently owned and bootstrapped, and identifies Brady Shearer as its founder.
Founded: 2017
Price from: $65/mo

Where it ranks on Freedom251

Best Church Website Builders in 2026#16 of 24

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