Comparison · Website
Webflow or an Astro website you own? One person maintains the site: Webflow. A team with seats: a site of your own.
Webflow is cheap, well built and sufficient for most company sites. This page works the cost through openly and arrives at an answer that argues against us.
As of August 2026, webflow.com.
The first scenario in numbers
- Webflow, Total over 36 months
- US$1,224
- FW Delta, Total over 36 months
- US$6,360
- Cheaper
- Webflow, US$5,136
- Build paid for after
- 250 months
Simple content site, one person maintains it, 3 years
How we compare
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We sell the alternative
This is not a neutral review. That is why price date, assumptions and the maths sit openly next to it.
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Both outcomes are shown
Including the scenarios where the vendor wins. A comparison that always ends in our favour would be advertising.
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Only evidenced numbers
List prices with a source. Where a vendor does not publish, no invented total appears.
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Your numbers decide
The calculator takes your users, your volume and your term instead of our assumption.
In short
It depends on how many people touch the site. A simple content site maintained by one person costs 34 USD per month, and no build competes with that. Once a team is involved, the site plan, the workspace plan and the seats stack: the same site with two further full seats and four limited seats runs to 212 USD per month. From there the calculation turns, and turns sharply. Both cases are below.
Calculated
What it costs over the term.
Every line comes from the Webflow pricing page, billed yearly. The site plan is only part of the bill: a workspace plan sits on top and every seat is charged individually. Full seats cost 39 USD, limited seats 15. Webflow merged the former CMS and Business plans into Premium in May 2026, so older comparisons use plans that no longer exist.
Simple content site, one person maintains it, 3 years
| Line item | per month | Total over 36 months |
|---|---|---|
| Webflow, Basic site plan15 USD | US$15 | US$540 |
| Webflow, Core workspace, one full seat included19 USD | US$19 | US$684 |
| Webflow | US$34 | US$1,224 |
| FW Delta, one-off buildhosting US$10 per month | US$10 | US$6,000 + US$360 |
| FW Delta | US$10 | US$6,360 |
- Cheaper over the term
- Webflow, US$5,136
- When the build is paid for
- only after 250 months, so beyond the term
Company site with a marketing team, 5 years
| Line item | per month | Total over 60 months |
|---|---|---|
| Webflow, Premium site plan, CMS included25 USD | US$25 | US$1,500 |
| Webflow, Growth workspace, one full seat included49 USD | US$49 | US$2,940 |
| Webflow, 2 further full seats2 x 39 USD | US$78 | US$4,680 |
| Webflow, 4 limited seats for editing4 x 15 USD | US$60 | US$3,600 |
| Webflow | US$212 | US$12,720 |
| FW Delta, one-off buildhosting US$10 per month | US$10 | US$8,000 + US$600 |
| FW Delta | US$10 | US$8,600 |
- Cheaper over the term
- FW Delta, US$4,120
- When the build is paid for
- 40 months
Assumptions
- Basic at 15 and Premium at 25 USD per month billed yearly, as of August 2026
- Workspace Core at 19 and Growth at 49 USD per month, each including one full seat
- Full seat at 39 and limited seat at 15 USD per month
- Not included: Localize from 9, Ecommerce from 29 and Optimize from 299 USD per month
- On our side around 10 USD hosting per month for a small server
- The build costs are assumptions for the given scope, not a quote
- Bandwidth add-ons, localisation and ecommerce are not included
In detail
Where the two routes differ
| Point | Webflow | FW Delta |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | low and predictable, grows with seats | higher up front, then hosting only |
| Visual editing | the actual reason to choose Webflow | an editing layer has to be built alongside |
| Time to first result | very fast | a project with design, build and testing |
| Code ownership | export exists, the runtime does not | complete, in your own repository |
| Custom server logic | not provided | without that constraint |
| Load time | good, with the platform's script in the document | without that script, measurable on your own result |
| Where data sits | the vendor's infrastructure | wherever you put it |
| After cancelling | the site goes offline, the export remains | the site keeps running |
The decision
What speaks for which route.
A site of your own pays off when
- the site needs server logic, such as a calculator, form processing or a portal
- the source code has to be yours for contractual or strategic reasons
- the site is part of a larger system being built anyway
- load time is a hard criterion and every third-party script gets in the way
Choose Webflow when
- · the marketing team should maintain the site without development
- · the site mainly presents content and needs no logic of its own
- · it has to happen quickly and the budget is small
- · nobody in-house wants to run a server
If you want to switch
What happens next
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30 minutes
Conversation
We walk through your starting point and say honestly whether a move pays off for you.
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within five working days
Fixed-price proposal
With scope, assumptions and what is explicitly not included.
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depending on scope
Build and handover
Code access from day one, manual at the end, no obligation to keep us.
Common questions
Why does this page include a case where Webflow is clearly cheaper?
Because for a simple content site it is. A Basic plan plus a Core workspace is 34 USD per month; a build would take over twenty years to pay back against that. A comparison page that concludes the seller always wins is not a comparison.
Why does it get so much more expensive with a team?
Because three lines stack that each look harmless alone. The site plan covers the site, the workspace plan covers collaboration, and every seat beyond the included one is charged individually. A full seat is 39 USD per month, a limited seat 15. At six people that is 138 USD for access alone, more than four times the site plan. Localize, Ecommerce and Optimize come on top once you need them.
What changed in the Webflow pricing?
The CMS and Business plans were merged into a single plan called Premium in May 2026. Anyone still costing this at 39 and 74 USD is using plans that no longer exist. Premium is 25 USD per month billed yearly.
When is a build the right call anyway?
When the site has to do more than deliver content. As soon as server logic, a login or a connection to your own systems is involved, the range where Webflow is cheap ends and the question stops being about cost.
Read on
Where to go next.
How these figures were produced
- Price as of
- August 2026
- Basis
- Publicly listed prices from Webflow, together with the assumptions on this page for user count, volume and term.
- Not included
- Discounts, annual prepayment, enterprise terms, partner rates and country-specific pricing. Internal staff cost on either side is not counted.
- Limits
- Vendor pricing and packaging change. This calculation is a model, not a quote and not a general market price. Check the current vendor price list before deciding, and run the numbers with your own figures.
Next step
Talk about the case, not the price
If Webflow is enough, we will say so. If it is not, we will cost it out.
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