The short version
Framer sells site plans (per website) plus seat add-ons (per person). Checked against the live pricing page on 2026-09-10, the page shows four tiers — Free, Basic ($10/site/mo billed annually), Pro ($30/site/mo billed annually), Enterprise (custom) — and no Scale plan, even though several widely-cited 2026 trackers still list “Scale from $100/mo” as current. That gap between the page and the coverage is the single most useful thing to know before you trust any Framer price summary, including the ones ranking in Google today.
This is a terms check, not a hands-on test. All numbers come from framer.com/pricing captured the same day, cross-checked against third-party trackers and Framer’s own help center. We did not create an account — our automated signup attempt was blocked by Framer’s server-side protections (documented below), so nothing here claims first-hand account experience.
Pricing: what the page actually shows (2026-09-10)
One quirk first: the pricing page localizes currency to the visitor’s session. Our automated session rendered yen (Basic ¥1,540, Pro ¥4,620 per month) with no visible currency control, while a same-day text extraction of the identical page returned the USD values below. Both captures are from 2026-09-10; the USD column is what US buyers see.
| Free | Basic | Pro | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price (yearly billing) | $0 | $10/site/mo | $30/site/mo | Custom |
| Pages | — | 30 | 150 | Custom |
| CMS collections | — | 2 | 10 | Custom |
| CMS items | — | 1,000 | 2,500 | Custom |
| Bandwidth | 1 GB/mo | 50 GB/mo | 100 GB/mo | Custom |
| Custom domain | ✗ (Framer subdomain) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Staging / rollback | ✗ | ✗ | ✅ | ✅ |
| A/B testing, localization, advanced hosting | ✗ | add-on | add-on | included/custom |
Honesty notes on the numbers above:
- The page prices are annual-billing prices. The cards print “ANNUAL” next to $10/$30; the monthly-billed figures are not printed on the page, so we do not state them. Third-party trackers describe monthly billing as roughly 50% higher, but since the official page doesn’t print it, treat any monthly number as an estimate until checkout shows it.
- Yearly totals are never printed either. $120/year (Basic) and $360/year (Pro) are arithmetic from the per-month figures, not published sums.
- The Free row is deliberately sparse — see the contradiction below.
The missing Scale tier
Until mid-2026, Framer’s ladder was Free / Basic / Pro / Scale ($100+/mo) / Enterprise, and that is still what most 2026 articles describe (trackers updated as recently as May 2026 quote Scale at $100/mo with pay-as-you-go expansion pricing). The page we captured on 2026-09-10 has no Scale card: the comparison table runs Basic → Pro → Enterprise, and Framer’s own help article — titled “Comparing Framer pricing plans: free, basic, pro, enterprise,” updated August 7, 2026 — uses the same four-tier structure.
What we can verify: the $100 Scale tier is not offered on the public pricing page today, and Framer’s help center no longer treats it as one of the standard tiers. What we cannot verify (without an account or a changelog post): whether existing Scale subscriptions were migrated, grandfathered, or simply renamed into Pro + add-ons. If you are currently on Scale, confirm your own billing in your workspace before trusting any article — including this one.
Editors, seats, and add-ons: where the real money goes
Site price is the floor; Framer bills people and features separately:
- Additional editors: $20/editor/mo (all plans; viewers are free). The page notes editors are billed per seat within 24 hours of being added.
- Content editors: $10/editor/mo — a CMS/localization/on-page-editing-only seat with no canvas access.
- Localization: $20 per extra locale/mo (up to 20 locales on paid plans).
- Convert add-on (A/B testing, funnels, triggers): $50 per 500,000 events/mo.
- Advanced hosting (multiple sites, custom headers under one domain): $200/mo, max 6 rewrites.
- Pro Experts get free editor access to client projects — relevant if you are hiring out the build.
For a two-person marketing site on Pro, the honest math is $30 + $20 + $20 = $70/mo, not $30 — a distinction most headline prices in search results hide.
The free plan — and the contradiction inside Framer’s own page
Framer’s free tier exists for trying the product and for non-commercial work; the page says the Free plan includes a free Framer subdomain and 1 GB of monthly bandwidth, and that a custom domain requires a paid plan. The page’s own FAQ, however, states:
“Projects on the Free plan include access to 10 CMS collections, 1,000 pages, 5 MB file uploads, and one free locale to try.”
Those numbers contradict the comparison table on the same page, which gives Basic (a paid plan) 30 pages and 2 CMS collections. A free plan cannot include more pages and more collections than the tier above it. We captured both texts from framer.com/pricing on 2026-09-10 and cannot reconcile them from public sources. Our reading: the FAQ paragraph describes current free-project caps generously (possibly leftover from a trial/promo state), while the comparison table reflects plan boundaries; but we flag this as unresolved rather than picking a winner. If the free plan is your decision-maker, verify inside the app before relying on either figure.
Signup gate: what we observed (relevant for future hands-on)
The login/signup page (framer.com/login) asks for a work email or Google OAuth; a reCAPTCHA script
loads on the page. Our headless probe submitted the email field programmatically and received
Cannot log you in — Please try again with zero field-level errors — a server-side block, not a
visible challenge. Practical implication: a hands-on Framer test will need a real-browser signup
(one Google click), after which the free plan’s core flow (design → publish to a Framer subdomain)
is testable without a credit card. No card is requested at signup.
Verdict (terms-level, no score)
Because we have not run a site on Framer, we are deliberately not publishing a star rating. What the terms support: Framer is one of the cheapest ways to put a genuinely fast, CMS-backed site on a custom domain ($10/mo Basic covers a portfolio site with a free .com on yearly billing), and its seat model (viewers free, $10 content editors) is friendlier than per-member-priced document tools. The watch-outs: real team cost is site + $20/editor + add-ons, the Scale tier has vanished from the public page while still being cited everywhere, and the free plan’s advertised limits are internally inconsistent.
Methodology & sources
- framer.com/pricing — captured 2026-09-10 (UTC morning): full-page text extraction (USD state), Playwright screenshots (yen-default state, both billing modes), FAQ text. This is the primary source for every number above.
- framer.com/login — same-day headless probe (form structure, captcha scripts, submit outcome).
- www.framer.com/help/articles/best-use-cases-for-each-framer-plan (updated 2026-08-07) — confirms the four-tier structure in Framer’s own help center.
- goodspeed.studio/blog/framer-pricing-explained (updated 2026-05-28) and www.oma-kase.com/blog/framer-pricing-update-may-2026 — third-party records of the pre-May-2026 five-tier ladder and the May 2026 editor-seat cut ($40 → $20 on Pro/Scale), used only as historical cross-checks against the current page.
- Checked 2026-09-10. Pricing pages change; the scale-tier discrepancy above should be re-checked before citing this article.
For the cheap end of the category, see our Carrd terms check — one-page sites from $9/yr. The two are compared directly in Framer vs Carrd — $120/yr per site against $19/yr per account, billed by different units.
