ComparisonUpdated
Two design-led website builders, each with a visual canvas, a CMS, hosting and AI that builds with you. They part on price at each size of site, on how much content each plan holds, and on whether you can take the code with you.
The short answer: pick Framer for a small site on a lower price, at $15 a month for Basic ($10 billed yearly), with AI agents and 1,000 credits a month. Pick Webflow for a site with a large CMS, 20,000 items on Premium at $39 a month ($25 yearly), for a store, or if you want to export the code and host it yourself, which a paid Webflow Workspace allows.
Best for: a small site on a lower price, designed on a canvas
Framer is a website builder that works like a design tool: pages are laid out on a canvas, with animation and effects, and its AI agents design pages, write copy, organize the CMS and translate the site, on monthly AI credits.
Best for: a large CMS, a store, or code you can export
Webflow is a visual website builder for designers and marketing teams: you lay out pages in its Designer, with interactions and animation, and manage content in a CMS.
Best for: an app with its own data, not a site
Framer and Webflow build websites.
Feature by feature, with the tool that does each one better.
Framer is a website builder that works like a design tool: pages are laid out on a canvas, with animation and effects, and its AI agents design pages, write copy, organize the CMS and translate the site, on monthly AI credits. Framer hosts every site, a free site goes online at a Framer address, and paid plans connect your own domain, with pages, CMS collections and bandwidth set by the plan. Editors beyond the owner are billed by the seat. You can also build a Framer site from Claude Code, Cursor or Codex over MCP, which uses none of Framer's credits. Framer's pricing page offers no code export.
Choose it if
Webflow is a visual website builder for designers and marketing teams: you lay out pages in its Designer, with interactions and animation, and manage content in a CMS. It bills in two layers: a site plan for each live site, which hosts it and sets its pages, CMS and bandwidth, and a Workspace, where sites are built and teammates invited, with paid Workspaces adding staging, custom code and code export. Webflow AI builds a site from a prompt, designs sections and fills CMS collections on Workspace AI credits, and Webflow Cloud hosts apps coded in Next.js or Astro beside a site.
Choose it if
Both are visual website builders that host the site and publish it to your domain, and both now have AI that designs and writes with you. Framer works on a canvas with animation and effects, and its agents design pages, write copy, organize the CMS and translate the site. Webflow pairs its visual Designer, with interactions and animation, with a CMS built for large content sites, and with Ecommerce plans.
The price follows the size of the site. A small site costs less on Framer, $15 a month on Basic against $25, and Framer's free plan allows up to 1,000 pages where Webflow's Starter allows two. A site that lives on its CMS costs less on Webflow: Premium, at $39, holds 20,000 items, eight times Framer Pro's 2,500, for $6 a month less. Teams pay more on Webflow, where each extra full seat is $45 a month against Framer's $30, and a paid Workspace can sit on top of the site plan.
Then there is leaving. A paid Webflow Workspace exports a site's code to host anywhere, with the CMS exported collection by collection and forms that stop working, and Webflow Cloud hosts apps coded in Next.js or Astro beside a site. Framer's pricing page offers neither.
A portfolio or a landing page
Framer's Basic puts it on your own domain for $15 a month, or $10 billed yearly, with 50 GB of bandwidth. Webflow's Basic costs $25, or $15 yearly, with 10 GB.
Pick Framer
A blog or resource library with thousands of entries
Webflow Premium holds 20,000 CMS items for $39 a month ($25 yearly). Framer Pro holds 2,500 for $45 ($30), and paid add-ons raise that as far as 40,000.
Pick Webflow
A store
Webflow's Ecommerce plans start at $42 a month ($29 yearly), with 500 items and a 2% fee on sales. Framer's pricing page lists no store.
Pick Webflow
A marketing team with several editors
Extra editors cost $30 a month on Framer ($20 yearly), with content editors at $15 and viewers free, and $45 on Webflow ($39), with limited seats for content at $19.
Pick Framer
Leaving later
On a paid Workspace, Webflow exports the site's code to host anywhere, though CMS content leaves collection by collection and forms stop working. Framer's pricing page offers no export.
Pick Webflow
For a small site, Framer costs less: Basic, with your own domain, is $15 a month ($10 billed yearly) against Webflow Basic's $25 ($15). For a site run on its CMS, the order flips: Webflow Premium, at $39 ($25), holds 20,000 items in 40 collections, while Framer Pro, at $45 ($30), holds 2,500 in 10 before add-ons. A team pays more on Webflow, where an extra full seat is $45 a month ($39) against Framer's $30 ($20), and code export needs a paid Workspace, from $28 a month ($19). On both, each plan is for one site.
We make Fabricate
Framer and Webflow build websites. If what you need is an app, with its own records, rules and screens that change with the data, Fabricate builds one from a description, with the database and sign-in written into the app's own code. Building and previewing are free; publishing is on Pro and Max.
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About this guide
Written by the Fabricate team. Fabricate is our product; Framer and Webflow are not, and the page marks ours where it mentions it.
The pages we read about each tool are listed here, each with the day we read it. We compared the tools from their own pricing pages and documentation, not by signing up for them. Spotted something out of date? Write to info@fabricate.build.
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