When to Adopt Framer: Client Sites That Stay on Framer Hosting

Framer's value comes from collapsing design, CMS, and code generation into one canvas, and its pricing starts at $0 with 500 AI credits and scales to Basic at $10/month and Pro at $30/month, which suits fast iteration on small client sites. The verdict is explicit that client sites are hosted on Framer's infrastructure with a 99.99% uptime guarantee, so agencies cannot migrate sites to alternative hosting. That hosting dependency is the deciding factor, not the design speed.

• •The client is a startup or small business that needs a 5-page site launched inside a 24-hour setup window, matching the Framer Starter Site Launch offer at $2,700.
• •The client accepts a 99.99% uptime guarantee on Framer's infrastructure and has no requirement to migrate the site to another host later.
• •The agency's delivery model depends on removing design-to-development handoffs, so the same person designs, wires CMS collections, and publishes.
• •The client's content volume fits within 2 CMS collections on Basic at $10/month or 10 collections on Pro at $30/month.
• •The agency wants to trigger content updates and deployments from Slack, GitHub, Claude Code, or ChatGPT rather than a separate ops tool.