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FramerAn AI-assisted website builder that combines a design canvas, CMS, and hosting in one product, free to start with paid plans from $10/month for a custom domain.

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Best for: designers, marketers, and founders who want to design and launch a production website on a visual canvas without a developer handoff for every change

Pricing: Free to start (500 credits, subdomain); Basic $10/month for a custom domain, Pro $30/month for 10 CMS collections; extra editors $20/month each.

  • Framer's Free plan includes 500 credits, a framer.dev subdomain, and 1GB of bandwidth.
  • Basic costs $10/month for a custom domain and 2 CMS collections; Pro costs $30/month for 10 CMS collections and a staging environment.
  • Additional editor seats cost $20/month each on top of the plan price.
  • Framer holds a 4.8/5 rating from 261 reviews on Product Hunt.
  • Framer's AI Design Agent edits site layouts directly on the live canvas rather than generating a separate draft.

Limitations: Additional editor seats add $20/month each, raising real team cost above the advertised plan price.; CMS collections are capped by plan and can force an upgrade for content-heavy sites.; Freeform canvas layout has a steeper learning curve than block-based builders for non-designers.

Top alternatives: Webflow, Wix, Squarespace, WordPress.comfull list

What is Framer?

Framer is a website builder centered on a visual, canvas-based editor: pages are designed directly rather than assembled from a fixed block library, and the same canvas doubles as the CMS and publishing surface. Its main differentiator is a set of AI agents built into the canvas: an AI Design Agent that generates and edits page layouts in place, a CMS Agent for structuring and populating content, and a Code Agent for adding custom interactive effects, alongside integrations with external tools like Claude Code, ChatGPT, and Cursor. Hosting, SEO, analytics, and A/B testing are bundled in rather than sold separately, and every plan above Free includes a custom domain. Framer is closed-source and aimed at designers, marketers, agencies, and founders who want production-grade site output without a developer handoff for every change.

Framer is a website builder for designers, marketers, and founders who want to design, launch, and host a site from one canvas-based editor rather than stitching together separate design and CMS tools. The Free plan includes 500 credits, a framer.dev subdomain, and 1GB of bandwidth; Basic costs $10/month for a custom domain, 2 CMS collections, and 50GB of bandwidth; Pro costs $30/month for 10 CMS collections, 100GB of bandwidth, a staging environment, and site redirects; Enterprise is custom-priced with unlimited editors, SSO, and an uptime guarantee. Framer differentiates on its AI Design Agent, which edits a live site directly on the canvas, and on built-in hosting with 99.99% uptime, competing most directly with Webflow and Wix for teams that want design control without hand-coding.

Standout feature: An AI Design Agent that works directly on the live canvas to generate and refine site layouts in place, alongside a CMS Agent and Code Agent for content and custom interactivity.

Biggest weakness: Paid plans meter both CMS collections and bandwidth, and adding a second editor costs an extra $20/month even on the Pro plan, which pushes real team costs well above the advertised $30/month for anything beyond a single-editor site.

Pros

  • Design canvas, CMS, and hosting are integrated into one editor instead of separate tools.
  • Free plan includes a working site with a subdomain and 1GB of bandwidth, not just a trial.
  • Built-in AI Design Agent edits the live site directly rather than generating a draft to copy over manually.
  • Hosting comes bundled with SEO, analytics, and A/B testing rather than requiring third-party add-ons.

Cons

  • Each additional editor seat costs $20/month on top of the plan price, adding up quickly for small teams.
  • CMS collections are capped by plan (2 on Basic, 10 on Pro), which can force an upgrade for content-heavy sites.
  • Custom domains and most integrations require at least the $10/month Basic plan.
  • Canvas-based, freeform layout has a steeper learning curve than block-based builders like Wix for users without design experience.

Framer pricing

Free tier · paid from $10/mo · verified from the vendor's pricing page

PlanPriceNotes
FreeFree500 credits, framer.dev subdomain, 1GB bandwidth, full design canvas access.
Basic$10/moCustom domain, 2 CMS collections, 50GB bandwidth, built-in SEO tools.
Pro$30/moCustom domain, 10 CMS collections, 100GB bandwidth, site redirects, staging environment. Extra editors cost $20/month each.
EnterpriseCustomCustom pricing with volume credit discounts, unlimited editors, SCIM, SSO, and an uptime guarantee.

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