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Framer vs WordPress.com
2 products compared side by side: what you pay for with each one first, then the five access facts, entry prices, recorded plan limits and the bottom line of each review. The evidence note under the table says how each product was checked.
Side by side
| Metric | Framer | WordPress.com |
|---|---|---|
| What you're paying for | Easy to adoptA designed, fast-to-publish marketing site with a small CMS for $10 a month on yearly billing, built on a canvas that feels like a design tool. | Worth the priceA managed WordPress site with plugins and unlimited users for $4 a month billed yearly, with your posts and pages free to leave in WordPress’s own format. |
| Overall score | 6.2 | 7.9Best |
| Free option | Free plan | Free plan |
| Card to start | –Not measured | No card needed |
| Getting access | Self-serve | Self-serve |
| Starter priceCheapest paid plan | $10/site/mo | $4/site/mo |
| Pricing model | Tiered | Tiered |
| Pricing page | Public prices | Public prices |
| Billing unit | Per site, plus $20 per extra editor and $20 per extra language | Per site; yearly, 2-year, 3-year or monthly terms |
| Free option | Free plan on a Framer domain with the badge; refund within 7 days worldwide | Free plan on a WordPress.com address with ads; 14-day refund on annual plans |
| Reference scenario (annual) | $10/mo on Basic | $4/mo on Personal |
| Month-to-month price | Not listed; the help center says monthly costs more | $9 on Personal ($9 / $18 / $40 / $70) |
| Free custom domain | Listed on yearly plans; the help center says Framer does not sell domains | For 1 year on annual and multi-year plans |
| Second editor | $20/mo per editor, $10/mo per content editor | Unlimited users on every plan |
| Multiple languages | $20 per locale per month, up to 20 | Through a multilingual plugin on Personal and up |
| Online selling | Not offered | Payment buttons from Premium; WooCommerce store from Business |
| SOC 2 / ISO 27001 | SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001; reports to Enterprise customers on request | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Refund window | 7 days worldwide, 14 days in the EU and Turkey (refund policy) | 14 days on annual plans, 7 days on monthly |
| Export | CMS to CSV or JSON through plugins; HTML export described differently on two pages | Posts, pages and comments as XML; full site with a migration plugin |
| Bottom line | From its public pages, Framer offers the cheapest designed site with a CMS among the canvas builders here, at $10 a month on yearly billing, with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 stated. Editors and languages cost extra, and some pages disagree on domains, refunds and export. | From its public pages, WordPress.com is the lowest-cost route to a custom-domain site with a blog, at $4 a month billed yearly, with plugins, unlimited users and a portable export. Check the renewal price at checkout, and note that SOC 2 and ISO 27001 are not stated. |
Evidence: Framer: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; WordPress.com: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run. Prices in USD as listed, excluding tax. "–" means not recorded.
Entry price
Baseline: each product's cheapest paid plan, per month. Included usage differs, so read the line under each price.
- FramerBasic$10/site/moBilled yearly; monthly billing offered, price not listed
- Custom domain, complimentary domain on yearly
- 30 pages, 2 CMS collections, 1,000 CMS items
- Password protection and site search
- 50 GB bandwidth, 30 days of analytics
- WordPress.comLowest pricePersonal$4/site/moBilled yearly; $9 month to month, $3.25 on 2 years, $2.75 on 3 years; renewal price not in the page text
- No ads, free domain for 1 year
- Install plugins and premium themes
- 6 GB storage
- Full stats history
Prices as listed on each pricing page, in USD per month, excluding tax. Observed: Framer 2026-10-16, WordPress.com 2026-10-16.
Which one fits
- If you need to start today without a sales call
- WordPress.comSelf-serve sign-up, no card needed; the highest score of the 2 self-serve products here (7.9/10).
- If you want to try it without entering a card
- WordPress.comFree plan, no card needed; scored 7.9/10.
- Lowest starter price
- WordPress.com$4/site/mo for the Personal (billed yearly) plan.
- Highest overall score
- WordPress.com7.9/10 (Good). The review shows the score breakdown and the run behind it.
Picked by fixed rules from the table above, not by hand. How we score
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