Framer began as a prototyping tool and has become one of the most popular website builders for startups and designers. It feels like a design app: you work on a free-form canvas, add animations and interactions visually, and publish a fast, polished site without writing code.
Key features include:
- A design-first canvas with rich animations and effects
- AI agents for page design, CMS content and custom code
- A built-in CMS for blogs and collections
- Localization, SEO tools, analytics and A/B testing
- Fast hosting with high uptime
- A marketplace of templates and components
- Integrations with AI coding tools
Framer has a free plan for building and publishing on a Framer subdomain. Paid site plans cost about $10 per month for Basic, $30 for Pro and $100 for Scale, with Enterprise plans available. Extra editors cost about $20 per month, and a cheaper Content Editor role for CMS updates costs about $10 per month.
Framer has a learning curve for non-designers, its e-commerce is limited, and costs grow with editors and sites. For modern, animated marketing sites for startups and designers, though, it’s one of the best builders available.
