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Pricing
A Framer site has two bills. One is the plan you pay Framer every month or year. The other is the design and build, paid once to whoever makes the site. Most pages that rank for this search cover only one of the two, and several still quote plans Framer no longer sells. This guide puts both together with the figures read from Framer's own pages on 1 November 2026, then adds them up for three common kinds of site.
Expect to pay Framer $120 to $360 a year for the plan itself (Basic or Pro, billed yearly), plus $120 to $240 a year for each extra person who edits the site. Add a one-off design and build fee: around $1,800 to $9,000 for a small site of up to 10 pages, and $18,000 or more for a larger site with a CMS built by an established agency. A one-person portfolio on a template can run for $120 a year; a startup marketing site with a team, a second language and an agency build can top $20,000 within twelve months.
Disclosure: Amariq is a web design studio that builds sites on Framer, Webflow, WordPress and Shopify. We have no paid relationship with Framer. Every Framer figure below was read on framer.com on 1 November 2026, and each build range is credited to the guide that published it.
We searched Google (United States, English) for "framer pricing" and "how much does a Framer website cost" on 1 November 2026. Framer's own pricing page and help articles came first, followed by Siter.io, Goodspeed, LanderLab, BRIX Templates and Design Monks.
Siter.io (figures read off Framer on 27 October 2026) is the most accurate plan guide we read. It also covers Framer's two price changes: October 2025, when five plans became three, and June 2026, when the Scale plan went and editor seats dropped from $40 to $20. It does not cover what a build costs.
BRIX Templates (26 May 2026) has the most detailed build price bands, split by site size and by who builds it. Its plan section, though, still lists a Scale plan at $100 a month and editor seats at $40 to $50 on Pro. Framer's pricing page today shows no Scale plan and lists additional editors at $20 a month on both Basic and Pro.
Design Monks (17 October 2025) gives build ranges by site type and region, but its plan list (Mini at $5, a $75 Business plan and separate ecommerce plans) does not match anything on Framer's pricing page today.
So no single page gives today's plan fees and the build fees together, which is what you need to budget. That is what the rest of this guide does.
| Free | Basic | Pro | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price, billed yearly | $0 | $10 a month | $30 a month | Custom |
| Price, billed monthly | $0 | $15 a month | $45 a month | Custom |
| Cost for a year | $0 | $120 yearly, $180 monthly | $360 yearly, $540 monthly | Custom |
| Custom domain | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Pages | 1,000 | 30 | 150, then $20 per 100 more (700 max) | Custom |
| CMS collections | 10 | 2 | 10, then $40 per 10 more (40 max) | Custom |
| CMS items | Not stated | 1,000 | 2,500, then $20 per 10,000 more (40,000 max) | Custom |
| Bandwidth a month | 1 GB | 50 GB | 100 GB, then $40 per 100 GB more (2 TB max) | Custom |
| AI credits a month | 500 to try | 1,000 | 3,000 | Custom |
| Analytics history | Not stated | 30 days | 90 days | Unlimited |
| Redirects, staging, branching | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Source: framer.com/pricing, 1 November 2026. Framer notes that any sales tax for your location is added when you pay. The free plan is meant for non-commercial use and cannot connect your own domain. Yearly paid plans include a complimentary domain.
Two things the headline prices hide. First, the price is per site: Framer's help page on subscriptions describes cancelling a "Site plan" from inside each project, so three sites mean three plans. Second, the $10 and $30 figures are the yearly rate; the month-to-month price is 50% higher.
| Extra | Price on 1 November 2026 | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Additional editor | $20 a month | Workspace owner is free on Basic and Pro |
| Content editor | $10 a month | Can update the CMS and localization and edit on the page |
| Viewer | Free | Can view and comment |
| Translation locale | $20 a month per locale | Up to 20 locales, Basic and Pro |
| Convert (A/B tests, funnels) | $50 per 500,000 events | Pro only |
| Advanced hosting | $200 a month | Pro only; up to 6 rewrites, firewall rules and custom headers |
| Going over bandwidth | $40 per 100 GB on Pro | Framer lets you exceed some limits for one month and emails you |
Framer's help article on subscriptions (updated in late October 2026) adds the billing rules that catch people out: editor charges are billed monthly even on a yearly plan, unused time on a downgraded plan becomes account credit rather than cash, and refunds are offered within 7 days of the first purchase, or 14 days in the EU and Turkey.
Framer does not set build prices; the person or studio you hire does. These are the published ranges we found, credited to their authors. They are estimates from those guides, not prices we charge.
| Site | Who builds it | Published range | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio, a few pages | Freelancer or agency | $1,800 to $3,000 | Design Monks, Oct 2025 |
| Up to 10 pages | Freelancer | $1,800 to $4,500 | BRIX Templates, May 2026 |
| Up to 10 pages | Small studio | $3,600 to $9,000 | BRIX Templates |
| Up to 10 pages | Mid-sized agency | $7,200 to $18,000 | BRIX Templates |
| Small business site | Freelancer or agency | $3,500 to $12,500 | Design Monks |
| 11 to 40 pages with CMS | Small studio | $9,000 to $18,000 | BRIX Templates |
| 11 to 40 pages with CMS | Mid-sized agency | $18,000 to $36,000 | BRIX Templates |
| 11 to 40 pages with CMS | Top agency | $31,500 to $63,000 | BRIX Templates |
Hourly rates vary too: BRIX quotes $50 to $200 an hour depending on whether you hire a freelancer or an agency, and Design Monks quotes $40 to $80 for freelancers. Both say most full sites are better priced as a fixed project.
What moves a quote within these ranges is the same on every platform: the number of distinct page layouts (not total pages), the CMS structure, custom motion, integrations, a second language and content migration from an old site. Our web design cost calculator walks through each of these with sourced figures.
Plan and seat costs use Framer's yearly prices from the tables above. Build ranges use the published bands, so the totals are estimates.
| Portfolio | Small business site | Startup marketing site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Site | 5 pages, template, owner edits | 10 pages, blog, built by a small studio | 25 pages, CMS, built by a mid-sized agency |
| Plan | Basic yearly, $120 | Basic yearly, $120 | Pro yearly, $360 |
| People | Owner only, $0 | One content editor, $120 | Two extra editors, $480 |
| Add-ons | None | None | One extra language, $240 |
| Running cost a year | $120 | $240 | $1,080 |
| Running cost over 3 years | $360 | $720 | $3,240 |
| Build (one-off) | Template, your own time | $3,600 to $9,000 | $18,000 to $36,000 |
| First year total | $120 plus the template | $3,840 to $9,240 | $19,080 to $37,080 |
| Three-year total | $360 plus the template | $4,320 to $9,720 | $21,240 to $39,240 |
The pattern is clear: for anything beyond a personal site, the plan is a small share of the total. Picking Basic over Pro saves $240 a year; a clear brief that cuts two page layouts from the build can save more than that in one go.
If you pay month to month instead, the same three sites cost $180, $300 and $1,260 a year, because only the plan price changes; editor and locale fees are monthly either way.
| Choose Basic if | Choose Pro if |
|---|---|
| Up to 30 pages | More than 30 pages, or you expect to grow past them |
| Up to 2 CMS collections (a blog and one more) | Case studies, blog, team, jobs and more as separate collections |
| You can live without staging | You want to test changes in staging before publishing |
| No redirects needed | You are moving from an old site and need 301 redirects for your old URLs |
| 50 GB of traffic a month is plenty | You expect heavy traffic or video |
The redirects line matters more than it looks. If your new Framer site replaces an older one, the old URLs need to redirect to the new ones or you lose the search traffic they earned, and the pricing page puts site redirects in the Pro plan, not in Basic. Our website redesign SEO checklist explains why.
For the CMS limits in more detail, see our Framer CMS guide.
Framer's entry plan is among the cheaper ways to put a designed site on your own domain. For the same kind of breakdown on other platforms, read how much a Webflow website costs, what a WordPress website costs and the cost of a Wix website. If you are still choosing a platform, Webflow vs Framer compares the two on more than price, and website maintenance costs covers what you pay after launch.
We build Framer marketing sites from an approved design, with reusable components and the CMS set up so your team can publish without a developer. Our Framer development page says a focused Framer marketing site typically takes two to five weeks from an approved design, depending on templates, CMS collections and custom interactions. We price each project from its scope, never by the hour, and payment is split 40% at the start, 30% at design approval and 30% before launch. Once that last payment clears, the design, copy and code are entirely yours, and the Framer site plan, domain and analytics are set up under your own business. If Framer does not suit what you have planned, we will say so and suggest Webflow or WordPress instead.
Paid yearly, Basic works out at $10 per month and Pro at $30 (checked 1 November 2026); paid monthly they are $15 and $45. The free plan costs nothing but cannot use your own domain. Enterprise is priced on request.
Per site. Each published site needs its own plan, and editor seats are billed on top for the workspace. Three client sites on Basic cost three Basic plans.
Published guides put a small site of up to 10 pages at about $1,800 to $4,500 with a freelancer and $3,600 to $9,000 with a small studio. A larger site with a CMS runs from about $9,000 with a small studio to $36,000 or more with a mid-sized agency.
Yes. The workspace owner is free on Basic and Pro. Additional editors cost $20 a month, content editors $10 a month and viewers nothing, according to Framer's pricing and help pages on 1 November 2026.
Paid plans let you connect a custom domain, and Framer's pricing page says a complimentary domain is included on yearly billing. On the free plan you publish to a Framer subdomain.
On the entry plans, usually: Framer's Basic plan costs $10 per month when paid yearly. The bigger difference is usually in the build and in which platform suits the site; see our Webflow cost guide and the Webflow vs Framer comparison before deciding.
Yes. Siter.io records a change in June 2026 that removed the Scale plan and cut editor seats from $40 to $20. Guides written before then often show old plans, so check the date on any Framer price you read.

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