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Framer is a website builder that publishes a designed site straight from its canvas. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Amsterdam. It describes its product as a way to go from idea to launch with an agent that designs and builds on the canvas, keeping each change editable, with hosting, security, analytics, a CMS and SEO built in.

It fits a portfolio, a launch page or a startup site that has to look designed from the first screen. The free plan publishes on a framer.app domain and keeps a Framer badge on the site; the paid plans add a custom domain, more bandwidth, more pages and the tools a growing team needs. Framer names Miro, Perplexity, Zapier and Mixpanel among the teams that use it.

## What Framer does

- **Design canvas with an agent**: a design agent works directly on the site to generate and refine pages in place.
- **CMS agent**: sets up, organizes and updates the CMS, connected to the canvas.
- **Code generation**: agents turn ideas into code and put it on the site; Framer works with Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and the terminal.
- **Localization**: sites in several languages.
- **Built-in SEO**, **analytics** and **A/B testing**.
- **Hosting and security**, with 99.99% uptime claimed.

## How it works

A site is designed on a visual canvas, and what is on the canvas is what gets published. Framer reports good Core Web Vitals on its own site (a largest contentful paint of 1.1 s, an interaction to next paint of 95 ms and a cumulative layout shift of 0.01). Content lives in the CMS, pages can be localized as add-ons, and the analytics dashboard tracks pageviews, visitors and conversions. A community of resources, which Framer counts at more than 20,000, provides templates and components.

## Prices

| Plan | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Framer domain (framer.app), 1 GB bandwidth, Framer badge, 500 AI credits to try |
| Basic | $10 a month | Custom domain, 50 GB bandwidth, 30 pages, 2 CMS collections, built-in SEO, 90 days of analytics |
| Pro | $30 a month | Custom domain, 100 GB bandwidth, 150 pages, 10 CMS collections, redirects, staging, branching with previews, unlimited analytics |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom limits, unlimited editors, enterprise security, uptime guarantee, SSO and SCIM |

Add-ons are priced separately: $20 per translation locale, $20 per extra 100 pages on Basic and Pro, $50 per 500,000 events for A/B testing, and $200 for advanced hosting. Additional editors cost $20 a month, content editors $10 each, and viewers are free.

## Customers it names

Miro, Perplexity, Zapier and Mixpanel appear among the teams Framer shows on its site.

## Frequently asked questions

**Is Framer free?** Yes. The free plan publishes a site on a framer.app domain with 1 GB of monthly bandwidth, and keeps a Framer badge on the site.

**How much does a custom domain cost?** The Basic plan, at $10 a month, includes a custom domain and 50 GB of bandwidth.

**Does Framer have a CMS?** Yes. Basic includes 2 CMS collections and Pro includes 10, and a CMS agent can set up and update the content.

**Can a Framer site be multilingual?** Yes, through localization, priced at $20 per locale.

**Where is Framer based?** In Amsterdam; the company was founded in 2014.

**Who is it best for?** Portfolios, launch pages and startup sites that have to look designed.

## Contact

Framer's website is [framer.com](https://www.framer.com/), and its plans are listed on [framer.com/pricing](https://www.framer.com/pricing).