Framer
Design-led website builder that publishes production sites from a canvas.
- Development
- Design
- Marketing
- from $5/mo
- Unclaimed profile
Framer is a website builder with a designer's canvas rather than a block editor. You lay out pages freely, add interactions and animation, then publish to Framer's hosting on a custom domain. It occupies the space between a design tool and a no-code site builder.
Framer at a glance
| Best for | Marketing sites and landing pages with strong visual design, Designers who want to publish without a developer, Startups needing a credible site quickly |
|---|---|
| Category | Development, Design, Marketing |
| Starting price | Free on a framer.website subdomain; paid sites from $5/month billed annually |
| Free plan | Yes |
| Free trial | No trial offered |
| Pricing model | subscription |
| Company | Framer B.V. |
| Founded | 2014 |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Founders | Koen Bok, Jorn van Dijk |
| Platforms | Web, macOS, Windows |
| Public API | Yes |
| Browser extension | No |
| Mobile apps | None |
| Self-hosting | No |
| Affiliate programme | Partner and affiliate programmes advertised; rates vary by programme |
| Founder verified | No |
| Last checked | August 2026 |
Framer pricing
Prices below were read from the vendor's own pricing page on 1 August 2026. Pricing model: subscription. No free trial is offered.
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | per month | framer.website subdomain, Framer badge, limited pages |
| Mini | From $5 | per month | Per site, billed annually — custom domain, single page |
| Basic | From $15 | per month | Per site, billed annually — multi-page, CMS collections |
| Pro | From $30 | per month | Per site, billed annually — larger CMS limits and localisation |
Who Framer is for
Best for
- Marketing sites and landing pages with strong visual design
- Designers who want to publish without a developer
- Startups needing a credible site quickly
Not recommended for
- Large content sites with complex editorial workflows
- Ecommerce with substantial catalogues
- Teams needing full control of the codebase
Key features
- Freeform design canvas with responsive breakpoints
- Built-in CMS collections for blogs and case studies
- Scroll, hover and page-transition animation without code
- Custom React code components for anything the canvas cannot do
- Managed hosting on a global CDN with SSL
- SEO fields per page and automatic sitemap
- Localisation for multi-language sites
- A/B testing on higher tiers
Integrations
- Figma (paste to import)
- Google Analytics and Search Console
- Mailchimp and other form endpoints
- Stripe (via components)
- Framer Plugin API
Our assessment
Framer is the fastest route from a design idea to a live, well-built marketing site, and the animation work it produces without code is well beyond what block-based builders manage. Its limits are structural: pricing is per site, so an agency running many client sites accumulates subscriptions; the CMS is fine for a blog and inadequate for a large content operation; and you do not own the output. For a startup homepage it is an easy recommendation. For a 2,000-page publication it is not.
What works in Framer
- Design freedom and animation quality no block builder matches
- Very fast from blank canvas to published custom domain
- Custom React components provide an escape hatch for real functionality
- Hosting, SSL and CDN are handled with no configuration
What doesn't
- Priced per site, which gets expensive across multiple projects
- CMS is limited for large or complex content operations
- No code export, so migration means rebuilding
- Easy to publish a heavy page if you are careless with media
Framer competitors and alternatives
| Alternative | Why you might pick it instead |
|---|---|
| Webflow | More powerful CMS and ecommerce, with a steeper learning curve and higher price. |
| Astro on Cloudflare Pages | What to choose when you want code ownership and the fastest possible pages. |
| Squarespace | Simpler and cheaper for a conventional brochure site. |
Per-site pricing is the thing to model
Framer charges per published site, not per seat. One startup homepage is inexpensive. An agency with twelve client sites has twelve subscriptions, and the arithmetic starts to favour a builder with account-level pricing or a coded site on cheap hosting.
The CMS ceiling
Framer’s CMS handles a blog, a case-study collection and a careers list well. It is not built for thousands of entries, nested taxonomies, editorial workflow states or multiple editors working concurrently on structured content. If your content plan looks like a publication, this is the wrong tool — that is what this site runs Astro for.
Performance is your responsibility
Framer’s hosting is fast, but the canvas will happily let you place a 4 MB hero image and three autoplaying videos above the fold. Sites built carelessly here score badly on Core Web Vitals. Compress assets, limit animation on mobile, and test with real throttling.
No export, so decide deliberately
There is no code export. If you outgrow Framer you rebuild rather than migrate. That is an acceptable trade for a marketing site you expect to redesign in two years anyway, and a poor one for a site you intend to keep for a decade.
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- Framer pricing page — checked 1 August 2026
- Framer developer documentation — checked 1 August 2026
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