Framer and Webflow both let you design a custom website on a visual canvas and host it in the same place. Neither needs you to manage servers. Framer works much like a design tool. Webflow goes further with large content collections and selling online. The plan limits tell you which one fits your site.
Facts below come from the Framer pricing page and the Webflow pricing page, as of October 2026. Prices are in US dollars and exclude tax.
The short verdict
- Pick Framer if you want a striking marketing site or portfolio, fast, with a small number of pages and simple content.
- Pick Webflow if you need a large CMS, want to sell products from the same site, or expect the site to grow into something bigger.
Prices
Framer, per month, as shown with yearly billing selected:
- Free: $0. Free Framer address, 1 GB bandwidth, 500 AI credits to try.
- Basic: $10. Free custom domain, 30 pages, 2 CMS collections, 1,000 CMS items, 50 GB bandwidth.
- Pro: $30. 150 pages, 10 CMS collections, 2,500 CMS items, 100 GB bandwidth, staging and site redirects.
Framer lets you buy more pages, CMS items and bandwidth on Pro. Extra editors cost $20 a month each, and viewers are free. A complimentary domain is included on yearly billing. Framer also offers monthly billing. Check the monthly price in the app before you pay.
Webflow site plans, per site, billed yearly:
- Starter: free. webflow.io address, 2 static pages, limited CMS, 1 GB bandwidth, 50 form submissions.
- Basic: $15. Custom domain, 300 static pages, 10 GB bandwidth, no CMS.
- Premium: $25. Adds the CMS with up to 20,000 items and bandwidth from 50 GB.
Webflow says yearly billing saves up to 40% compared with monthly. Team seats and staging sites sit on separate Workspace plans. A free Starter Workspace is included, and paid Workspace plans start at $19 a month billed yearly.
Content and blogs
This is the clearest gap.
- Framer Basic allows 2 CMS collections and 1,000 items. Pro raises that to 10 collections and 2,500 items, with paid top-ups.
- Webflow Premium allows up to 20,000 CMS items. Webflow Basic has no CMS at all.
A small site with a few pages and a short blog fits Framer well. A site with hundreds of posts, products or locations fits Webflow Premium better. If you plan a blog, count the posts you expect over the next two years. Moving a large CMS later is slow work.
Selling online
Framer's pricing page does not list store or checkout features. If you need to sell, look into this before you build.
Webflow has separate Ecommerce plans. The first, Standard, is $29 a month billed yearly, allows 500 ecommerce items and charges a 2% transaction fee. Plus at $74 and Advanced at $212 a month, both billed yearly, have no Webflow transaction fee. Stripe or PayPal processing fees apply on all of them.
If selling is the main job, also compare a store-first tool. See Squarespace vs Shopify.
Learning and editing
Framer works much like a design tool. If you or your designer already use one, the canvas will feel familiar.
Webflow uses ideas from web design, such as classes and layout settings. It takes longer to learn and gives more control in return.
Think about who will edit the site after launch. If that person is not a designer, ask them to try both editors on the free plans before you choose.
How to decide
- Count pages and CMS items. Check them against each plan's limits.
- Decide if you will sell. If yes, Webflow Ecommerce or a store-first tool.
- Count editors. Price Framer's per-editor fee against Webflow's Workspace plans.
- Build one page in each. Use the free plans and see which one you keep going back to.
Whichever you pick, the copy matters more than the animations. Start with landing page copy and the basics of SEO for small business. If you are also weighing WordPress, read Webflow vs WordPress.