Webflow vs WordPress in 2026: which to pick
Pick Webflow if your marketing team edits the site and you want full design control without plugins to update. Stay on WordPress if you run a large content site or an online shop, rely on specific plugins, or have a developer who keeps it healthy. For most small and mid-sized company sites, we'd pick Webflow.
What's the real difference?
WordPress is open-source software. You or your developer choose hosting, a theme and plugins, and keep all three updated. It runs 39.6% of all websites and 58.4% of sites with a known CMS (W3Techs, October 2026).
Webflow is a hosted platform. Design, CMS and hosting live in one place, and Webflow runs the servers, updates and security. It's much smaller: 0.8% of all websites (W3Techs, October 2026).
That's the whole trade. WordPress gives you a huge ecosystem and full control, and asks you to maintain it. Webflow gives you less to maintain and more design control out of the box, and you live by its rules and its pricing.
How do Webflow and WordPress compare?
| Webflow | WordPress | Edge | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosting and updates | Included, run by Webflow | You choose hosting and update core, theme and plugins | Webflow |
| Editing for marketers | Edit text, images and CMS items on the page. Components keep layouts intact | Block editor. The experience depends on the theme and plugins | Webflow, for most teams |
| Design freedom | Visual control over every element, no theme limits | Depends on the theme or page builder | Webflow |
| Plugins and integrations | A smaller app marketplace, plus embeds | A huge plugin ecosystem | WordPress |
| Security | No plugins to patch. You rely on Webflow | 11,334 new vulnerabilities in 2025, 91% of them in plugins (Patchstack, February 2026) | Webflow |
| Speed | Not measured separately in the Web Almanac. Depends on the build | 45% of WordPress sites pass Core Web Vitals on mobile (Web Almanac 2025, January 2026) | Depends on the build |
| Large content sites | Up to 20,000 CMS items on the Premium plan (Webflow, October 2026) | No hard limits, scales with hosting | WordPress |
| Online shop | Possible, with a simpler toolset | WooCommerce, a much bigger toolbox | WordPress or Shopify |
| Running cost | Site plan: about €160 to €270 a year (Webflow, October 2026) | Hosting, premium plugins and maintenance time, shared hosting at about 66 to 242 Kč a month with VAT after the first year (Vedos, October 2026) | Count maintenance before you decide |
| Who you need | A designer who builds | A developer on call | Depends on your team |
A note on speed. It comes from the build more than the platform. A heavy Webflow site is slow too. But some hosted builders do well in the same report: 74% of Wix sites pass on mobile (Web Almanac 2025, January 2026). Fewer moving parts make a fast site easier to keep fast.
Which one should your company pick?
We build on Webflow, Astro and Framer. Our Webflow work includes BetterBrain (a partnership of 3+ years ), TEDAI Vienna (a speaker, panel and program CMS) and Laser AI (a publications CMS). Events Club runs on Astro. Our picks come from that work.
| Type of company | Our pick | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Local service business: clinic, law firm, workshop | Webflow or Framer | Few pages, rare changes, and nobody wants to patch plugins |
| Growing B2B or SaaS company with a marketing team | Webflow | Marketers publish landing pages and CMS content without a developer |
| Startup that needs a site this month | Framer | The fastest route from design to live |
| Publisher with thousands of posts and many authors | WordPress | Editorial roles and workflows, no item limits |
| Online shop | WooCommerce or Shopify | Not Webflow's strength, and not something we build |
| Multilingual or speed-critical site with custom logic | Astro + Sanity | Plain HTML, structured content, full control |
| Members area, courses or bookings built on plugins | WordPress | The plugins already exist and work |
When should you stay on WordPress?
More often than you'd expect from a Webflow studio. We'd tell you to stay when:
- Your site works. It's fast enough, it brings leads, and your team is happy editing it. A new platform alone won't bring you more customers.
- You depend on plugins with no real equivalent elsewhere: WooCommerce, memberships, courses, complex forms.
- You publish a lot. Thousands of posts, many authors, editorial roles and scheduled content.
- Someone reliable keeps it updated. You have a developer or a care plan you trust.
- Your budget is small. It's better spent on content and photos than on a move.
In those cases, fix the speed, tidy the design and keep updating. A migration should solve a problem you actually have, not one we'd like to sell you.
What does moving from WordPress to Webflow cost?
In our calculator, moving from WordPress adds €600 on top of design and build. That covers exporting the content, cleaning it up and mapping 301 redirects, so your old URLs keep their rankings.
| Project | Estimate | Time | Points to |
|---|---|---|---|
| An 8-page site moved to Webflow, design kept | €4,000 to €5,100 | 2 to 4 weeks | Migration service |
| A 5-page redesign that leaves WordPress for Webflow, tested sections | €4,400 to €5,600 | 2 to 3 weeks | Launch |
| A 10-page custom redesign from WordPress to Webflow, with collections and interactive motion | €10,100 to €12,900 | 4 to 6 weeks | Studio |
The last one, line by line: design and build €7,000, Webflow build €700, WordPress move €600, CMS collections €1,500, interactive motion €1,400. That's €11,200, shown as a range because no two sites are the same.
More than 100 blog posts? The calculator flags it for a call. Big blogs need a content plan before a price.
A good migration includes a full list of your old URLs, a redirect for each one that moves, the same or better titles and meta descriptions, structured data, and a few weeks of watching Search Console after launch. Redirects from your old site are part of every project we do.
What about Astro + Sanity and Framer?
Astro + Sanity. Astro is an open-source framework that sends plain HTML to the browser. Sanity is a CMS where your team edits structured content in a clean interface. In January 2026, Cloudflare announced it was acquiring the team behind Astro and said Astro will remain open source (Cloudflare, January 2026). It's our pick for multilingual sites, top speed and custom logic, and it costs €0 to about €220 a year to run: Sanity's free plan plus hosting (Sanity, Vercel, October 2026). The catch: structural changes need a developer. This website runs on Astro and Sanity.
Framer. A design-first builder. It's the fastest way from a design to a live site, and it suits startups and landing pages. The CMS is lighter than Webflow's. About €110 to €320 a year (Framer, October 2026).
The platform changes the build price a little and the running costs a lot. Our packages are priced on Astro with Sanity, because it's code, and code is where AI saves us the most time. Framer adds 5% to design and build, Webflow 10%, because it's built by hand in its Designer. Same packages, same calculator.
What we'd do
If you're on WordPress and it works, stay and keep it updated. If your marketing team waits on a developer for every landing page, or you're tired of plugin updates, move to Webflow. If you need several languages and top speed, look at Astro + Sanity.
Not sure? Run your site through the calculator and pick "Move to a new platform". See how we handle migrations and Webflow builds.