Pick Framer for design-led marketing sites and portfolios you want live in days. Pick Webflow when a client needs a real CMS and precise layout control. Pick WordPress when the client wants to own everything, run serious content or e-commerce, or use the largest plugin ecosystem. All three can load fast and rank on Google.
Pricing in 2026
Framer has a free plan on a Framer subdomain. Paid hosting starts at $10 a month on Basic, which adds a custom domain, two CMS collections and 50 GB of bandwidth. Pro is $30 a month with ten collections and 100 GB of bandwidth, and Enterprise is custom. The line people miss is seats: each extra editor costs $20 a month and a content editor $10, according to Framer's pricing page.
Webflow sells site plans and workspace seats separately, and it changed its plan lineup in 2026, so figures from older articles may be wrong. The current tiers, the CMS item limits and the per-seat prices are on Webflow's pricing page, and that is the page to quote from when you write a client estimate.
WordPress is where pricing gets slippery, because the software is free and open source. You pay for hosting, a domain, and any premium themes or plugins. WordPress.com sells managed plans, billed annually: Personal at $4 a month, Premium at $8, Business at $25 and Commerce at $45, with plugin installs on every paid plan, according to WordPress.com's pricing. Self-hosting on a good managed host costs more than the free label suggests once a premium theme and two or three plugins are in the mix.
The rough read: Framer and Webflow bundle hosting, SSL and a CDN into one predictable bill. WordPress trades a lower floor for more moving parts that you or the client must maintain.
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Framer feels like a design canvas that ships a live website. If you already design in Figma, you can build real pages in an afternoon. It hides the CSS box model behind a clean layout system, which is why designers like it and why power users sometimes hit a wall.
Webflow takes the opposite approach. It exposes the box model, flexbox, grid and CSS classes directly, so the curve is steepest. Push through it and you get near-total control over layout, interactions and responsive behaviour without hand-writing code. Plan for a week or two before you are fast.
WordPress depends on how you build. With the block editor or a page builder, a beginner can assemble a site quickly. The hard part is everything around the editor: updates, plugin conflicts, backups, caching and security. That maintenance work never fully goes away.
AI site building
Framer has put AI into the editor. According to Framer's AI page, you can describe a page and get an editable layout back, and it can also check a finished site for things like contrast problems and missing alt text. Webflow has its own AI assistant and site-building tools aimed at its CMS and search work. WordPress has no single first-party AI builder. You get many plugins for copy, images and SEO, which is powerful and inconsistent in equal measure.
A fair rule is to treat AI output as a first draft in all three. Clients pay you for the judgment on top of it, not for the generation.
SEO, CMS and hosting
All three can rank. Google does not care which tool built a page, only whether it is fast, crawlable and useful. Framer and Webflow output clean markup, include SSL and a CDN, and give you meta controls, redirects and sitemap settings. Webflow's CMS is the most flexible of the three for structured content and reference fields.
WordPress wins on raw ecosystem. It runs 39.6% of all websites and 58.3% of sites with a known CMS, according to W3Techs, which means every SEO plugin, schema tool and integration supports it first. WooCommerce, membership sites, multilingual setups and custom post types are all mature there. The tradeoff is that you own performance and security. A slow, unpatched WordPress site is easy to produce, and preventing it is on you.
What the client can maintain after launch
This question decides more handoffs than price does. Framer and Webflow both have editor roles, so a client can update posts, swap images and edit copy without being able to wreck the layout. That is a clean, low-risk handoff.
WordPress hands the client the whole admin panel. That is real ownership, and some clients want exactly that. It also means they can install a bad plugin, skip an update or break the site the night before a launch.
If the client is non-technical and you will not stay on a retainer, a hosted builder with an editor role protects everyone. If the client has an internal team or may hire another developer later, WordPress ownership is a feature. Either way, write down who owns hosting, domain and logins in your contract. A statement of work is the right place for that.
The verdict by project
Choose Framer for portfolios, personal brands, startup landing pages and design-forward marketing sites where speed and polish matter most and the CMS needs are modest.
Choose Webflow for content-heavy marketing sites, brands with an editorial calendar, and clients whose team will manage a structured CMS over time. It costs more and takes longer to learn, and it rewards that.
Choose WordPress for blogs and publications, WooCommerce stores, membership or course sites, and any client who insists on owning the full stack. Price the upkeep honestly, or sell a care plan so maintenance is a line item and not a surprise. For pricing the build itself, the freelance pricing guide shows how to set rates and packages.
If a project outgrows all three and needs a real web app, that is a different category of tool.
Quote the build so the tool choice does not eat your margin
Whichever platform you pick, put the recurring costs in the quote. Hosting, seats, a domain and any paid plugins belong in the client's bill or in a clearly priced care plan, not in your pocket. Decide who pays for extra editor seats on Framer or Webflow before the first invoice, because a seat that nobody budgeted for is how a small monthly cost turns into an argument six months later.
Also say what happens after launch. A site that the client edits is a site that can change without you. A short maintenance retainer, even a small one, gives you a reason to check updates, backups and broken forms every month, and it gives the client a number to plan around. Spell out what is in scope for a change and what counts as a new project, so a request to add a booking page is not treated as a free fix.
How Delivvo handles the client side of a website build
Choosing the builder is half the job. The other half is everything around it: the inquiry, the quote, the sign-off on designs, the deposit and the final payment. Delivvo covers that part for web studios and solo builders, whatever tool you build in.
Here is how a website project runs:
Your site's contact form feeds Delivvo. Delivvo has an inquiry form builder, and it also takes webhooks from WordPress, Webflow and Framer forms, so inquiries from your own site land on the lead board.
You build a quote from packages and add-ons, for example a design package plus a CMS add-on.
The client opens one link, picks a package, signs the contract and pays the deposit.
Delivvo creates the project, invoice and payment schedule. You can split a build into up to 12 payments, such as deposit, design approval and launch.
During the build, the client portal holds files, versions and approvals. The client approves a design round in the portal and the approval is on record.
At launch you send the final invoice, and the client pays through your own gateway.
Two details matter to web builders. Large files such as design exports and video backgrounds can go up to 50 GB on Pro and above, with no WeTransfer link expiring on a client. And every contract and invoice carries a verification code, with Arabic and English versions available. Delivvo takes 0% of payments. See how client approvals work and the proposals page.
FAQ
Is Framer or Webflow better for SEO?
Neither has a ranking disadvantage. Webflow gives a more flexible CMS and deeper control for large content sites. Framer covers the basics well and launches faster, which suits smaller marketing sites and portfolios.
Is WordPress still worth using?
Yes, for the right project. It has the largest plugin ecosystem and suits e-commerce, membership and complex content, and clients who want to own everything. The cost is ongoing maintenance and security that hosted builders handle for you.
Which can a non-technical client update safely?
Framer and Webflow, because their editor roles let clients change text and images without touching the layout. WordPress gives full admin access, which means more power and more ways to break the site.
What is the cheapest way to build a client site?
Self-hosted WordPress has the lowest software floor, but hosting, themes and plugins add up. Framer Basic at $10 a month is often cheaper once you count maintenance time. Check Webflow's pricing page for the current figure.
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