Framer
AI design agent and website platform for designers, teams and agencies
By Framer · 4.0/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Design-led marketing teams that want designers to ship production sites without engineering handoffs
- Agencies and studios delivering many client sites quickly
- Startups and scale-ups running their full marketing site and CMS on one canvas
- Teams that want AI agents editing canvas, CMS and code with reviewable branches
Ideal size: 5–50 people · Design-led startup to enterprise marketing team with a CMS-driven site
Not for
- Engineering orgs that require self-hosted or on-prem deployment
- Complex transactional web apps with custom backends
- Organizations that require FedRAMP or refuse third-party design tooling
- Simple sites that only need the cheapest static host
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
Under a week to a published site
~5 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$1,600/yr
Starts at $120 · Per site, billed yearly: Free $0, Basic $10/mo, Pro $30/mo, Enterprise custom. Editors $20/mo (content editors $10/mo); AI agents consume workspace credits.
Implementation Friction
1/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Free: up to 3 editors; Basic/Pro: 10 seats, extra editors $20/mo; Enterprise: unlimited editors
Add-on costs
- Convert (A/B testing, funnels, triggers): $50 per 500,000 events
- Translation locales: $20 per locale, up to 20
- Advanced hosting on Pro: $200, up to 6 rewrites
- Extra CMS collections: $40 per 10, max 40
- Extra bandwidth: $40 per 100 GB, max 2 TB
- Additional editors $20/month; content editors $10/month
Company & support
Who is behind Framer, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
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- Headquarters
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How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailNot listed
- Live chatPaid plans
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumAll plans
- Help centre / docsAll plans
- Dedicated account managerNot listed
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
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- Response time
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Chat support is listed for customers on paid plans; billing and emergency help are also handled by chat. Self-serve help articles and the user community are open to everyone.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Framer sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Framer
- Aspire
- Supermetrics
- Screaming Frog SEO Spider
- Mercury
- RudderStack
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Framer. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
A community or partner MCP server covers this. Usable today, though not maintained by the vendor.
AI & MCP readiness
What Framer ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Homepage describes a professional design agent native to the canvas that generates and refines in place, and a CMS agent that sets up, organizes and updates collections. External agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) can edit and publish through branches. AI usage draws on shared workspace credits.
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Community MCP server
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Framer is a design-first website platform built around a professional design agent native to the canvas, plus a visual editor, CMS, hosting and publishing. Marketing teams, agencies and startups ship production sites without engineering handoffs, with SEO, localization, A/B testing and analytics available. Pricing starts free, with Basic at $10/month and Pro at $30/month per site; Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM and an uptime guarantee. SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 are claimed.
Frequently asked questions
What does Framer cost for a mid-market marketing team?
Sites are billed per site, per year: Free at $0, Basic at $10/month and Pro at $30/month, with Enterprise custom. Additional editors cost $20/month and content editors $10/month, and viewers are free. Add-ons cover locales at $20 each, Convert A/B testing at $50 per 500,000 events and advanced hosting at $200. A Pro site with a handful of editors typically lands in the low thousands of dollars per year before add-ons.
How fast can a team launch a production site on Framer?
The vendor's own customer evidence points to days rather than months: stories cite prototyping, revising and publishing full sites in under a week, delivery cut from three months to one, and roughly 3x faster delivery for agencies. Pages, CMS collections and hosting are all in the same canvas, so no separate deployment pipeline is required.
Is Framer secure enough for enterprise use?
Its security page claims ISO 27001 compliance and a completed SOC 2 Type 2 audit covering Security and Availability, plus GDPR and CCPA commitments. Enterprise adds single sign-on with Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID, OneLogin or Okta, SCIM, role-based access control and an uptime guarantee. HIPAA and FedRAMP are not claimed, so regulated workloads needing those should look elsewhere.
Can our own AI agents work on a Framer project?
Yes. Framer documents an External Agent connection that lets Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP-capable tools read and edit a project, including CMS collections, without the editor being open. Framer states no separate MCP server is needed. Agent changes land on branches so you can review, undo and decide when to merge and publish.
Do the AI features cost extra?
Agents, localization and other AI features consume monthly workspace credits rather than being metered per task. Free includes 500 credits to try; Basic starts at 1,000 credits per month and Pro at 3,000, with higher credit bundles available and the option to add credits at any time. Credits are shared across the workspace and its editors.
Can we migrate content from our existing CMS?
Yes. Framer's changelog and agent documentation describe importing content from other CMS platforms and having the agent create, convert and reconnect CMS structures, including turning repeated fields into list fields. Customer stories include a full migration off Contentful and teams running nearly 2,000 pages without developer involvement.