Framer hosting costs between $0 and $75+ per site per month, depending on plan — and the price you actually pay is usually decided by two features: custom domains and CMS size. The free plan carries a "Made in Framer" badge on a .framer.website subdomain; paid site plans unlock your own domain, more CMS items, and higher limits. Below is how the costs stack up, when they're worth it, and the $0/month alternative: exporting your site and hosting it yourself.
(Framer adjusts pricing over time — always confirm current numbers at framer.com/pricing. The structure below reflects how their plans have consistently worked.)
How Framer's pricing is structured
Framer bills per site, not per account. Typical tiers:
| Tier | Rough price | What it gets you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | .framer.website subdomain, Framer badge, basic limits |
| Mini/Basic | ~$5–10/mo | Custom domain, badge removed, small page/CMS limits |
| Standard/Pro | ~$15–30/mo | More pages, bigger CMS, more traffic headroom |
| Business/Scale | ~$40–75+/mo | High limits, larger CMS, priority infrastructure |
Two multipliers people underestimate:
- Per-site billing. Five client sites on Standard-tier plans is five subscriptions — hundreds per year each.
- Annual vs monthly. Monthly billing runs meaningfully higher than the advertised annual-equivalent price.
For a freelancer or agency with a portfolio of sites, Framer hosting quietly becomes one of the larger line items.
What you're actually paying for
Framer hosting is genuinely good at what it does: instant publishing, global CDN, SSL, and zero maintenance. You're paying for convenience and for the editor staying connected to the live site. The question is whether each finished site still needs that connection — because a marketing site you update twice a quarter is paying every month for an editor it barely uses.
The $0/month alternative: export and self-host
A finished Framer site can be converted to static HTML or a Next.js project and hosted on a free tier:
| Cost | Framer (paid tier) | Exported + self-hosted |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly hosting | ~$5–75+/site | $0 (Netlify/Vercel/Cloudflare free tiers) |
| Custom domain | Included in paid tiers | Free to connect (you pay only your registrar) |
| Badge | Removed on paid plans | Removed by the converter |
| Performance | Framer runtime included | Runtime stripped — typically faster |
| Editing | Framer editor | Visual editor (text/links/images) or code |
The conversion itself is free. Free hosting tiers comfortably serve static sites — bandwidth-heavy sites might eventually hit paid tiers ($19–20/mo territory), which is still flat regardless of how many sites you host.
When Framer hosting stays worth it: you're actively iterating in the editor weekly, you rely on Framer's CMS with frequent updates, or a non-technical team edits constantly. Convenience has real value — pay for it while you're using it.
When exporting wins: the site is done and stable, you're paying mostly for it to exist, you run multiple client sites, or you're on free-plan-plus-badge and want your own domain without a subscription.
Doing the math on a real example
A three-site freelancer on ~$20/mo plans pays roughly $720/year for hosting sites that changed twice since launch. Exported: $0/year, same design, faster load, edits still possible through the visual editor or the code. That's the lock-in cost in concrete terms.
How to make the move
- Convert your published site — free, ~1 minute
- Deploy to Netlify or Vercel in one click
- Point your domain (one CNAME — full steps in the self-hosting guide)
- Downgrade or cancel the Framer site plan — see cancel Framer, keep your website
Your design ships with you, the badge goes away, and the monthly bill goes to zero.