What you get on Framer’s free plan

The short answer

Framer’s free plan is not a trial and it is not a demo. It is the whole editor with a publishable site attached, limited by the address it sits on, the bandwidth it can serve, and the badge in the corner. You can design, publish, and keep a site online indefinitely without paying.

What you cannot do is put it on your own domain. That is the line between free and Basic, and it is the reason most people eventually upgrade. Every figure here is a USD list price checked on 1 November 2026; Framer localises currency and adds tax at checkout.

Bandwidth and AI credits are the limits that stop a live site; the page and CMS allowances are the limits that stop a build. They are not the same number because they are not the same job.

What the free plan is genuinely good for

It is the right place to learn Framer, remix a template, and find out whether a design idea works before you pay for it. A personal portfolio, a wedding site, a side project, or a draft for a client can all live on a framer.website address without embarrassing anyone.

It is also the cheapest way to test a template properly. Remix it, replace the content, open it on a phone, and publish it to the free address. You will learn more in an afternoon than from a preview gallery.

Where the free plan stops

Four limits do most of the work, and only one of them is about pages:

• The address. Your site lives on a framer.website subdomain. A custom domain needs Basic or higher.
• Bandwidth. 1 GB is fine for text and images, and gone quickly with video or a busy launch day. A site that stops serving is worse than one that looks plain.
• Uploads. 5 MB per file rules out most video and many full-resolution photographs. Compress before you upload, or host the heavy media elsewhere.
• The badge. “Made in Framer” stays in the corner. Paid plans remove it.

There is also one locale and up to three editors. A bilingual site or a small team needs a paid plan for the former and, for larger teams, extra editor seats.

Free, Basic, or Pro?

The free plan’s page and CMS allowances look generous next to Basic. They are: free is built for designing a complex site, while Basic is built for publishing a simple one. That is why Basic has a custom domain and 50 GB of bandwidth but only 30 pages and two CMS collections.

Basic and Pro prices are per month on yearly billing. Both are per site, not per account.

The practical rule: choose Basic when the only thing missing is a domain and bandwidth. Choose Pro when the site needs a real CMS — a blog plus projects plus team profiles is already more than Basic’s two collections. If you are still deciding, thepricing breakdown compares every limit and add-on, and theannual billing comparison shows what paying yearly saves.

How to start

Create a Framer account, choose the free plan, and remix afree template or start from a blank canvas. You do not need to decide on a paid plan until the site needs its own address or more room.

If you already know the site will go on a custom domain, start the paid plan before you publish rather than after: the free address is useful for a draft, but changing the domain later means re-sharing every link.