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Framer vs. The Free Website Guys

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Framer
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Framer is a zero-code website builder offering a fully featured interactive design canvas that’s optimized for designing sites. Alternately, users can start in Figma and copy to Framer later. Framer features a built-in CMS, and optional premium hosting options with customizable application limits, and no hard hosting limits.
$10
per month per site
The Free Website Guys
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
The Free Website Guys are a design service that builds websites for small businesses at no cost, that includes web hosting with entities like Bluehost, who act as affiliate partners for which they receive a commission. The end user pays for web hosting and receives the site design from The Free Website Guys at no additional cost.N/A
Pricing
FramerThe Free Website Guys
Editions & Modules
Mini (Landing page builder)
$10
per month per site
Basic
$20
per month per site
Pro
$30
per month per site
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FramerThe Free Website Guys
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details50% discount for annual pricing.—
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Community Pulse
FramerThe Free Website Guys
Considered Both Products
Framer
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Framer
We primarily used Figma for design prototyping and Webflow for turning them into live websites. Framer does it all in the same place without sacrificing design freedom and quality. It's our go-to tool unless clients want something else.
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User Testimonials
FramerThe Free Website Guys
Likelihood to Recommend
Framer is a great tool for launching quick and beautiful websites. The Figma-like design and Webflow-like production capabilities make it complete tool for this purpose. While it works alright for lightweight CMS content, it's less suited for large, content-heavy websites and blogs that strictly rely on SEO.
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Pros
  • Clean, capable and collaborative design flow
  • Quick publishing and responsive websites
  • Native integrations with third-party tools
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Cons
  • Gets pricey with more advanced CMS use-cases
  • Font and style customization can be richer
  • SEO handling for blogs is limiting
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Usability
Framer is a pretty capable design tool, given it's completely no-code. It's intuitive to use after the initial learning curve
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Alternatives Considered
We primarily used Figma for design prototyping and Webflow for turning them into live websites. Framer does it all in the same place without sacrificing design freedom and quality. It's our go-to tool unless clients want something else
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Return on Investment
  • Cut time to launch by half when compared to our previous workflow
  • One-stop design and production capabilities make our projects easier
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