Webflow, Astro or Framer: which platform for a company website?
Pick Webflow if a marketing team edits the site every week and wants to build pages visually. Pick Astro with Sanity if you need several languages, top speed or a custom tool, and can wait for a developer when the structure changes. Pick Framer for a small, design-led site that has to go live fast. All three can rank well, so choose by who edits.
What are Webflow, Astro and Framer?
Two hosted builders and one framework. That difference matters more than any feature list.
Webflow is a hosted visual builder with a CMS. A designer builds the site in the Webflow Designer, your team edits text and CMS items on the page, and Webflow runs hosting and security. It powers 0.8% of all websites (W3Techs, October 2026).
Framer is a design-first hosted builder. It's the quickest route from a design to a live site, with a lighter CMS. It powers 0.2% of all websites (same source).
Astro is an open-source framework for content-driven websites. It renders pages on the server and sends less JavaScript to the browser by default (Astro Docs). In January 2026, Cloudflare acquired the team behind Astro and said it will remain open source (Cloudflare, January 2026). Astro has no editor of its own, so we pair it with Sanity, a CMS where your team edits structured content: pages, posts, team, prices.
We build on all three, and we're a Webflow Certified Partner, so weigh our Webflow opinions with that in mind. BetterBrain, TEDAI Vienna and Laser AI run on Webflow. Events Club and this website run on Astro.
How do they compare?
| Webflow | Astro + Sanity | Framer | Edge | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who builds it | A designer, in the Webflow Designer | A developer, in code | A designer, in Framer | Depends on your team |
| How your team edits | On the page, plus the CMS | In Sanity, a structured editor | On the page, plus the CMS | Webflow and Framer, for visual editing |
| New layouts and page types | Your designer, or your team from components | A developer | Your designer, or your team | Webflow and Framer |
| CMS limits | Premium: 20,000 items, 40 collections (Webflow) | Sanity Free: 10,000 documents. Growth: 25,000 (Sanity) | Basic: 1,000 items, 2 collections. Pro: 2,500 items, 10 collections (Framer) | Webflow or Sanity |
| Languages | Localize from $9 per language a month, up to 3 extra languages. Translated URLs need Advanced at $29 | Language routing built into Astro (Astro Docs). Sanity doesn't charge for languages | $20 per language a month, up to 20 | Astro + Sanity |
| Redirects for a move | 301 redirects on paid site plans | In the code or the host's config | Site redirects listed on Pro, not Basic | Webflow and Astro |
| Speed | Good. Depends on the build | Plain HTML first, little JavaScript | Good. Depends on the build | Astro + Sanity |
| Hosting and security | Run by Webflow | Static pages on a host, little to patch | Run by Framer | Even |
| Running cost a year | About €160 to €270 | €0 to about €220 | About €110 to €320 | Astro + Sanity |
| Our build price | +10% | Our base price | +5% | Astro + Sanity |
Platform prices were checked on the vendors' pricing pages in October 2026. Euro figures are approximate, converted from US dollars.
In one line: Webflow for teams that edit and publish a lot, Astro with Sanity for languages, speed and custom logic, Framer for small sites that need to ship now.
Which one fits your company?
| Type of company | Our pick | Why |
|---|---|---|
| SaaS or scale-up whose marketing team ships landing pages every week | Webflow | Marketers build pages from components without waiting for a developer |
| Event or conference with speakers, panels and a program | Webflow, or Astro over your registration system | TEDAI Vienna's speaker, panel and program CMS is in Webflow. Events Club is a fast static Astro site over the registration system they already had |
| Company that needs three or four languages | Astro + Sanity | Every language gets its own URLs and none of them adds to the yearly bill. This site runs in English, Slovak and Czech |
| Site with a calculator, configurator or other custom tool | Astro + Sanity | It's code, so the logic lives in the site. Our own calculator works this way |
| Local service firm: clinic, law firm, architect | Any of the three | A few pages and occasional text changes. Astro + Sanity costs least to build and run. Framer or Webflow if you want to change layouts yourself |
| Startup that needs a site this month | Framer | The fastest way from a design to a live site |
| Online shop | None of the three | Look at Shopify or WooCommerce. We don't build shops |
What does each cost to build and run?
The platform changes our build price a little and the running cost a lot.
Our packages are priced on Astro with Sanity, because it's code, and code is where AI saves us the most time: it drafts components and runs checks, and we make every design call and review what ships. Framer adds 5% to design and build. Webflow adds 10%, because we build it by hand in its Designer.
Here is our Studio package (10 pages, fully custom, CMS collections, interactive motion) on each platform, from our calculator:
| Astro + Sanity | Framer | Webflow | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design and build | €7,000 | €7,000 | €7,000 |
| Platform build | none | €350 | €700 |
| Collections and interactive motion | €2,900 | €2,900 | €2,900 |
| Estimate, one language | €8,900 to €11,400 | €9,200 to €11,800 | €9,500 to €12,200 |
| Estimate, three languages | €10,800 to €13,800 | €11,200 to €14,300 | €11,600 to €14,800 |
| Running cost a year | €0 to about €220 | About €110 to €320 | About €160 to €270 |
| Each extra language a year | €0 in Sanity | About €210 | About €100, about €300 with translated URLs |
Time is the same on all three: 4 to 6 weeks, or 6 to 8 with three languages.
Over the years, the running cost is where the gap grows. A three-language site with a CMS comes to about €470 a year on Webflow (about €870 with translated URLs) and about €740 on Framer Pro, while Astro with Sanity stays at €0 to about €220.
What are the catches?
Every platform has one. Better to know it before you sign.
- Webflow. The highest yearly bill of the three, and the CMS stops at 20,000 items on Premium. Translated URL slugs, such as Czech addresses for Czech pages, need Localize Advanced (Webflow). You live by Webflow's pricing.
- Framer. The CMS is tight on Basic: 2 collections and 1,000 items. Site redirects are listed on Pro, not Basic (Framer). If you're replacing a site that ranks, plan for Pro so every old address can be redirected.
- Astro with Sanity. Your team edits content, not layout. New page types and structural changes need a developer. Pick a commercial hosting plan: Vercel's Hobby plan is for personal, non-commercial use (Vercel). In return, the code is yours and can move to another host.
Changing your mind later is possible. In our calculator, moving a site from Webflow or Framer adds €400, and keeping the same design costs about half of a new build.
What we'd do
If your marketing team publishes every week, pick Webflow. If you need several languages, top speed or a custom tool, pick Astro with Sanity: it's also the cheapest to build and run. If it's a small site that has to go live this month, pick Framer.
Still unsure? Choose "Not sure" in the calculator, and we'll recommend one on the first call. See how we build in Webflow, or read Webflow vs WordPress if you're on WordPress today.