Best for
Best for designers and marketers who want to design, generate and publish a website without writing code.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
Website Builders Comparison
Framer vs. Webflow
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for designers and agencies who want a visual canvas with real CSS control, a CMS and an export path out.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
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Full Comparison
| Criterion | Framer | Webflow |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | lower value Free; sites from $10 / month Site plans: Basic $10, Pro $30 per month. Extra editors are billed separately, $20 per editor per month, content editors $10. | Free; site plans from $15 / month Site plans are per site and billed yearly: Basic $15, Premium $25, Team $2,500 on an annual contract, Enterprise on request. Workspace plans are charged on top for staging, custom code and code export: Core $19, Growth $49. All prices in USD, before tax. |
| Free trial | Free tier | Free Starter site plan on a webflow.io domain, plus a free Starter Workspace |
| Output | Websites, published and hosted with CMS, SEO and analytics | Hosted websites with a CMS, and exportable HTML and CSS |
| What it makes | Websites, with built-in CMS, hosting, SEO and analytics | Responsive websites built on a visual canvas, with a CMS, hosting, site search, localization and SEO and AEO tooling |
| Styling and layout control | Template library plus on-canvas control of layout, typography, color and breakpoints | Class-based style system with combo classes, breakpoints, variables and components, Shared Libraries that reuse components, variables and assets across every site in a Workspace, plus a template marketplace |
| CMS and dynamic content | Framer CMS with collections, rich field types including text, images, rich text, dates and references, dynamic filters and sorting by any field, plus CSV import and Google Sheets and Airtable sync. Basic allows 2 collections and 1,000 items, Pro 10 collections and 2,500 items, Enterprise custom limits | Webflow CMS with Collections of structured items on a shared template: 50 items and 20 Collections on the free Starter plan, none on Basic, 20,000 items and 40 Collections on Premium. Premium adds scheduled and per-item publishing, RSS feeds and CMS data in custom code, and REST APIs manage CMS content |
| Hosting and domains | Hosted by Framer, with popular pages cached globally, WebP and AVIF images served at the edge, SSL on every plan and a stated 99.99 % uptime. A custom domain needs a paid plan; bandwidth is 1 GB on Free, 50 GB on Basic and 100 GB on Pro, and an Advanced hosting add-on lets Framer run behind a reverse proxy | Hosted by Webflow on a global CDN, on a free webflow.io subdomain or a custom domain from Basic. Bandwidth runs from 1 GB a month on Starter and 10 GB on Basic to a selectable 50 GB to 2.5 TB on Premium, with automatic backups and a hosting uptime SLA of 99.00 % on Team and 99.99 % on Enterprise |
| SEO controls | Custom titles and descriptions for the whole site, individual pages and CMS pages, an automatic sitemap.xml and robots.txt, redirects in site settings (listed on Pro) and support for JSON-LD structured data | Title tags, meta descriptions, alt text and Open Graph settings for every page, plus canonical tags, an auto-generated XML sitemap, crawler access controls for search and AI bots, robots.txt and LLMs.txt, and schema markup. Some technical controls need a paid Workspace plan on a free Starter site |
| E-commerce | No built-in store or checkout is listed. Selling runs through third-party marketplace plugins that connect products, checkout and payments, among them Shopify Link, Shopify CMS Sync and StripeKit | Separate ecommerce site plans, billed yearly: Standard $29 a month with 500 items and a 2 % transaction fee, Plus $74 with 5,000 items and Advanced $212 with 15,000, both without a transaction fee. Custom cart and checkout, Stripe, PayPal and Apple Pay, and automatic sales tax and VAT calculation |
| Publishing and code export | Publishes hosted sites directly, with custom domains | Publishes to Webflow hosting on a webflow.io or custom domain. Code export produces clean, semantic HTML and CSS for a developer and is available on the Core and Growth Workspace plans, but dynamic CMS items and pages cannot be exported. Figma to Webflow and DevLink move designs and React components between tools |
| AI features | AI agents generate editable pages, sections, copy and visuals from a prompt, and can build code components | An AI site builder starts a site from a prompt, and AI also modifies page designs, generates copy, generates React code components and turns sitewide SEO and AEO audits into actionable suggestions. AI credits are allocated per Workspace plan: 200 on Starter, 300 on Core, 400 on Growth |
| API | Server API for publishing, Plugin API for the editor and CMS, Fetch API for custom endpoints, plus React code components | Yes, REST APIs and SDKs, a Designer API for building apps, DevLink, a CLI and an official MCP server that exposes those APIs to AI agents |
| MCP-ready | No | stated Yes |
| Deployment | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based |
| Support | Chat | more entries Email helpdesk, Community forum |
| Onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base, Video tutorials | Documentation and knowledge base, Video tutorials |
| Company size | Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise | Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise |
| Integrations | Not stated | Figma, Zapier, Make, HubSpot, Slack, Algolia, Wistia, Adobe Marketo Engage, Microsoft Clarity, Unsplash, Memberstack, Claude, Google Gemini |
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The short version
Key Differences
- Starting price Framer Free; sites from $10 / month Webflow Free; site plans from $15 / month
- Free trial Framer Free tier Webflow Free Starter site plan on a webflow.io domain, plus a free Starter Workspace
- Support Framer Chat Webflow Email helpdesk, Community forum
- MCP-ready Framer No Webflow Yes
- Output Framer Websites, published and hosted with CMS, SEO and analytics Webflow Hosted websites with a CMS, and exportable HTML and CSS
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The trade-offs
Strengths and Limitations
Framer
Strengths
- AI generates editable pages you then refine on the canvas
- Publishes hosted sites with CMS, SEO and analytics built in
- Large template library
Limitations
- Sites are hosted on Framer rather than exported as code
- Editor seats are billed on top of the site plan
Webflow
Strengths
- Visual canvas writes real HTML and CSS, with a class-based style system rather than fixed templates
- Code export produces clean, semantic HTML and CSS instead of locking the markup in
- Official MCP server lets AI agents design, manage and analyse a site within existing permissions
- Deep developer platform: Data and Designer APIs, SDKs, DevLink, CLI and Webflow Cloud
Limitations
- Two separate plans to pay for, since site plans and Workspace plans are billed apart
- Code export is a Workspace add-on and cannot carry CMS items or pages
- The jump from Premium at $25 to Team at $2,500 a month leaves nothing in between
- The class-based style system expects an understanding of how CSS cascades
Plans
Pricing
Framer
- Free $0 Framer domain, 1 GB bandwidth, 500 credits to try.
- Basic $10 Per month. Custom domain, 50 GB bandwidth.
- Pro $30 Per month. Custom domain, 100 GB bandwidth.
- Enterprise Custom Volume-discounted credits, SSO, SCIM, uptime guarantee.
Webflow
- Starter (site) $0 Webflow.io domain, limited CMS, 2 static pages, 1 GB bandwidth, 50 form submissions.
- Basic (site) $15 Per month, billed yearly. Custom domain, 300 static pages, 10 GB bandwidth, unlimited form submissions.
- Premium (site) $25 Per month, billed yearly. Adds the Webflow CMS, code components, site search and form file upload.
- Team (site) $2,500 Per month, annual contract required. Adds Webflow Localize, AEO agents, publishing workflows, activity log and governance.
- Enterprise (site) Custom Granular permissions, custom roles, advanced governance, dedicated account manager and enhanced SLAs.
- Starter (Workspace) $0 200 AI credits, 1 full seat.
- Core (Workspace) $19 Per month, billed yearly. 10 staging sites, 300 AI credits, custom code, code export and Shared Libraries.
- Growth (Workspace) $49 Per month, billed yearly. Unlimited staging sites, 400 AI credits, site password protection, 301 redirects and site-level roles.
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Where this comes from
Where this comes from
Framer https://www.framer.com · checked against the official source on 2026-08-18
Webflow https://webflow.com · checked against the official source on 2026-09-13
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