Hugo Chat — AI Site Builder for Hugo & HugoBlox AI-powered site builder for Hugo Describe your site. Hugo Chat builds it. Landing pages, portfolios, blogs, publications, slides — generate full Hugo pages from a single prompt. Powered by official Hugo and HugoBlox docs. PortfolioResearchStartupAgencyBlogDocsLanding pageLearn Explore ideas Designer portfolioDeveloper advocatePhotographer showcase Sign in with GitHub or Google to send · Free every day · No credit card 4.9/5 from 500+ Hugo builders Built by people like you What will you build? One prompt. A complete, professional site. Tell Hugo Chat what you need and deploy in minutes. Startup Landing Page Launch your product with a polished hero, feature grid, pricing table, and testimonials — ready for your first customers. Business Website A professional multi-page site for your agency, studio, or consultancy — with services, team, and contact sections. Personal Blog A clean, fast blog with SEO-optimized posts, categories, and an RSS feed. Write in markdown, publish instantly. Research Lab Site Publications, team bios, news, and grant information — the academic homepage your department actually deserves. Developer Portfolio Showcase your projects, open-source work, and writing with a site that loads in under a second. Event & Conference Site Speaker lineups, schedules, talk abstracts, and registration links — spin up a conference site in one session. Why Hugo Chat Everything you need to build with Hugo Full pages from a prompt Describe what you need — a landing page, blog post, or portfolio — and get structured Hugo content with front matter, sections, and styling. Knows every Hugo pattern Shortcodes, partials, layouts, taxonomies, content bundles. Hugo Chat writes them correctly because it retrieves from the current docs. Themes and styling built in Color palettes, typography, dark mode — ask for a design direction and get a complete HugoBlox theme config. Fixes errors instantly Paste a build error, get the exact fix. No forum archaeology. Always current Hugo ships monthly. Hugo Chat retrieves from the latest docs and release notes every time. Private and free to start Your prompts are never used for training. Free messages every day — no credit card. Hugo Chat vs. the alternatives Why generic tools fall short — and what changes when the AI is built for Hugo. Capability Hugo Chat ChatGPT DIY Generates full Hugo pages from prompts Partial Zero hallucinated shortcodes or config Up to date with latest Hugo & HugoBlox Partial Creates HugoBlox themes & layouts Cites source documentation Deploy-ready output in minutes Partial Why Hugo & HugoBlox Your site. Your content. Forever. AI site builders give you throwaway code. Hugo Chat gives you a site you actually own and understand. Plain text you control Every page is standard Markdown. No proprietary formats, no database lock-in. Edit in VS Code, Notion, or any text editor — no vendor required. Humans and AI can edit it Markdown is the universal language both people and AI understand. Update your site yourself or hand it back to Hugo Chat — no rewrite needed. No JavaScript dependency hell Hugo compiles to pure static HTML — no node_modules, no React hydration, no bundle bloat. Your site loads instantly and never breaks from a stale dependency. Future-proof, not AI slop AI builders generate walls of JS/HTML artifacts that are hard to maintain. Hugo Chat generates clean, structured content files that will still work in 10 years. Privacy by architecture No tracking scripts, no cookies, no server-side rendering that phones home. Your site is static files hosted wherever you choose — GitHub Pages, Netlify, or your own server. Open source, open standards Hugo is open source. HugoBlox is open source. Your content is portable Markdown. Walk away any time — nothing is locked to a platform. Loved by researchers and startups 4.9 average · 500+ reviews “I pointed Hugo Chat at our BibTeX export from Zotero and it generated 60+ publication pages, team bios, and project showcases in one session. Every page is Markdown in our GitHub repo - no database, no platform that can disappear on us.” Wei Ming Tan, PhD Computational Biology, NUS “We tried an AI site builder first and ended up with a React app no one could maintain past v1. Hugo Chat shipped our landing page, docs, and changelog as plain Markdown to GitHub Pages the same evening - and my non-technical co-founder edits the copy directly without ever breaking the build.” Maya Patel Founder, San Francisco “Every grad student needs a personal site - publications synced via ORCID, talks, project showcases. Hugo Chat builds the whole thing from their CV in a single session, and when they graduate the site moves with them in their own GitHub. Finally a TA that knows the tool.” Dr. Rachel Chua Professor, HKU Free to start. Pay for what you build. Unlimited Hugo chat on every paid plan. Build allowance scales with how much you create. MonthlyAnnualSave 25% Free Get a feel for it $0 forever Limited daily Hugo chat Try Build mode (free trial) No credit card required Start free — no card required Plus Save 25% Unlimited Hugo help $12/mo$9/mo $108 billed annually Unlimited Hugo chat Standard Build allowance Image and file attachments Public sharing of conversations Get Plus Most popular Pro Save 20% Frontier AI with Thinking $25/mo$20/mo $240 billed annually Most builders choose Pro Everything in Plus Frontier AI models with Thinking Higher Build allowance Push to GitHub from chat Get Pro Max Save 17% 2× Pro for serious builders $60/mo$50/mo $600 billed annually Everything in Pro 2× Pro Build allowance Save and update Zotero references from chat Larger attachments and commits Priority support Get Max Building with a team? Team plans from $32/seat/mo with pooled Build allowance and admin controls. Compare all plans and team pricing Questions, answered How is Hugo Chat different from ChatGPT?Hugo Chat generates full, structured Hugo pages — landing pages, blog posts, publication listings — with correct front matter and shortcodes. It retrieves from the current official Hugo and HugoBlox docs before every answer and cites them, so you get deploy-ready output instead of hallucinated code. What kinds of pages can Hugo Chat generate?Landing pages, blog articles, publication pages, project showcases, author profiles, event and talk pages, and markdown presentation slides. Each comes with proper Hugo front matter, section structure, and HugoBlox-compatible markup. What’s the difference between Chat and Build?Chat is conversational Hugo Q&A — quick questions, debugging, config help. It uses a fast, lightweight model and is unlimited on every paid plan. Build is generative work — producing full pages, blog posts, configs, and slide decks. Build uses frontier AI models on Pro and above, so it has its own allowance separate from chat. What does "frontier AI models" mean on Pro?Pro, Max, and Team use frontier AI models with Thinking enabled for Build generation — producing higher-quality, more detailed pages and content. Free and Plus use a capable but lighter model. All plans use the same fast model for Chat. What if I hit my Build allowance?Your Build allowance refills at the start of every billing period. If you reach it mid-period, you can upgrade for a higher allowance or top up from your billing page — no need to wait for renewal. Your current usage and remaining allowance are always visible in the in-app dashboard. Is it free?Yes — get a feel for Hugo Chat free with limited daily messages, no credit card. Upgrade to Plus ($12/mo, or $9/mo billed annually) for unlimited Hugo chat and Build access, or Pro ($25/mo, or $20/mo annually) for frontier AI with Thinking and push-to-GitHub. Do I need to sign in?Yes — we require a free GitHub or Google sign-in before your first message. This keeps abuse down and costs sustainable, so every real user gets fast responses. Will you train on my prompts?No. Your prompts and site content are never used to train any model. Enterprise plans add SSO, data residency, and a signed DPA. Does it work for non-HugoBlox Hugo sites?Yes. Hugo Chat knows vanilla Hugo (layouts, partials, config, shortcodes, hugo.toml) as well as it knows HugoBlox. Who built this?The team behind HugoBlox — the open-source Hugo framework used by thousands of researchers, startups, and universities since 2016. Start building in seconds. Describe what you want. Hugo Chat generates it. Free every day. Sign in with GitHubSign in with Google No credit card · Takes 10 seconds · Your prompts are never used for training