Est. 2019
Est. 2019
Framer gets a small, design-led site live faster and costs less to start. Webflow is the better fit once your marketing team publishes every week, the CMS keeps growing, or several people need to edit without breaking the design. Here's how to tell which side you're on.
Pick Framer for a small marketing site or a launch page that one or two designers own, under about 150 pages and 2,500 CMS items. Pick Webflow when a B2B marketing team publishes every week, the content keeps growing, and you need roles and permissions that hold up as the team grows.
Limits and prices from each vendor's pricing page, November 2026.
Framer
Webflow
What it means for you
Who can publish
Editors work on the canvas. Each extra editor is $20 a month.
Content editors use components and can't break the layout. Roles and publishing permissions on the Growth workspace.
Webflow gives a bigger team guardrails
CMS size
2,500 items on Pro, up to 40,000 with paid add-ons.
20,000 items and 40 collections included on Premium.
Both are fine at first, and Webflow has more room included
Languages
$20 per locale, up to 20.
Localize from $9 a month. Localized URLs and visitor routing on Advanced.
Framer is simpler for a few languages, Webflow goes deeper on SEO per language
SEO and AI search
Built-in SEO settings and AI features.
Full control of titles, schema, redirects and the sitemap.
Both can rank, and Webflow gives more control on a content-heavy site
Security review
SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001. SSO on Enterprise.
SOC 2 Type II. SSO and audit logs on Enterprise.
Both pass the basics, so check what your IT team needs
CRM and forms
A HubSpot form component. Native forms send to email, Google Sheets or a webhook.
Native integrations, a HubSpot app and an open API.
Ask to see form fills land in your CRM before you sign
Custom code
Code components inside the canvas.
Custom code, code components and code export.
Webflow is easier to hand to a developer later
A/B testing
Add-on, $50 per 500,000 events.
Webflow Optimize, from $299 a month.
Framer is cheaper to start testing
AI agents
AI agents on every plan, paid for with monthly credits.
Webflow AI on every plan. AEO agents come with the Team plan and up.
Framer gives smaller teams more AI out of the box
Framer wins on speed to launch and cost for a small, design-led site. Webflow wins once several people publish every week and the content keeps growing.
Framer is quicker to a beautiful first version. The difference shows up later, once more people edit, the content grows and the site has to keep up with the company.
Both rows are a typical shape, not a promise. Pick the platform for the team you'll have in two years, not the one you have today.
A seed-stage company that needs a credible site this month, with one or two designers building and publishing everything.
Short life, heavy motion, a handful of pages. Framer gets it live fast and looks great doing it.
At $20 a locale, Framer is the simpler way to put a small site into two or three languages.
On the Webflow site we built for Column Tax, updates go live in 2–3 days, without waiting on a developer.
20,000 CMS items on Premium, plus components, roles and publishing permissions that keep the design intact as the team grows.
Enterprise buyers bring security reviews, SSO and approval flows. Sisu Clinic runs 26+ clinics on the Webflow Enterprise site we built.
Both platforms let you edit visually. The difference is who can do what without breaking anything.
On the Webflow site we built for Column Tax, updates go live in 2–3 days.
The designer who built it makes most changes
New pages start from the canvas
Each extra editor is $20 a month
Past 2,500 CMS items, paid add-ons start
Publish a blog post
Launch a landing page from existing sections
Change the homepage headline
Add a case study and a customer logo
Update the navigation
Send us your site or your brief. We'll tell you which one fits, even if it's Framer.
To start, yes. Framer Pro is $30 a month and Webflow Premium is $25, but most teams on Webflow also add a paid Workspace plan ($19 or $49 a month) for seats and publishing permissions. Framer charges $20 a month for each extra editor and adds fees past 2,500 CMS items, $20 per locale and $50 per 500,000 A/B testing events. Webflow includes 20,000 CMS items, and Localize starts at $9 a month. All prices from each vendor's pricing page, billed yearly, checked November 2026.
Your marketing team picks the platform. These three people sign off on it.
Both have SOC 2
Framer has SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001, and Webflow has SOC 2 Type II. SSO sits on the Enterprise plan for both.
See it working first
Ask for a test form on a staging site that sends a lead, with its source, into your CRM. Do this on either platform before you commit.
Pick for the team you'll have
If marketing will grow, publish weekly or go multilingual, choose the platform that holds up at that size, not today's.
Answer these honestly. If you land on Framer, that's a fine call too.
Roles, permissions and components keep a bigger team from breaking the design.
20,000 items are included on Webflow Premium. On Framer you'd pay for add-ons.
Get it live fast and keep it simple. You can always move later.
Send us your site or brief and we'll tell you which one fits, even if it's Framer.
Framer doesn't export to Webflow, so a move is a rebuild. Here's how we'd run it.
We list every page, CMS item and URL on the Framer site, then map each old URL to its new home so no link breaks.
We rebuild the design as Webflow components your team can reuse, and move the content into CMS collections.
The new site is built on Webflow while the Framer site stays live, so visitors never see downtime.
We switch DNS, check every redirect and indexing, then track rankings after launch and fix anything that moves.
We've run 30+ platform migrations, 14+ of them from WordPress. We haven't moved a site off Framer yet, and we'd run it the same way: inventory first, redirects mapped, the old site live until launch.
Yes, for a small one. It's quick to build, fast and looks great. It gets harder once several people publish every week and the content grows past what its plans include.
For the person building the site, a little. For the marketing team editing it day to day, a component-based Webflow build is simple: they add pages from existing sections and edit content without touching the layout.
To start, usually yes. Framer Pro is $30 a month, and Webflow Premium is $25, with most teams adding a paid Workspace plan. The gap narrows as you add editors, CMS items past 2,500, languages and A/B testing. Prices from each vendor's pricing page, billed yearly, November 2026.
Both can rank. Webflow gives you more control over schema, redirects and page structure on a content-heavy site, which is what AI answers lean on when they pick sources.
Yes, but it's a rebuild, not an export. Plan a redirect for every old URL so you keep what the Framer site has earned in search.
Yes. Framer has completed a SOC 2 Type 2 audit and is ISO 27001 certified. Webflow is SOC 2 Type II. SSO sits on the Enterprise plan for both.
Yes, when the site is built on components. Editors change content and build pages from existing sections, and the layout stays locked.
No. We build on Webflow. If Framer is the better fit for you, we'll say so.
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