--- title: "Framer vs Fimo: features, pricing, agents | Fimo" url: "https://fimo.ai/compare/framer" description: "Framer vs Fimo compared. Framer becomes the place your website lives. Fimo sits on top of the repository you already have." --- Updated August 2026 # Framer vs Fimo: Beyond just a pretty website design Framer is well known for its striking website designs, and it can now connect to coding agents to import projects into its design canvas. However, Fimo sits on top of the repository your coding agents already work inside, so the code your team wrote in Claude Code, Codex or Cursor stays the source of truth while Fimo adds content editing, hosting and agents for SEO, content refreshes, translation, and more. --- ## Framer makes the canvas your source of truth. Fimo leaves it in your code. Framer 3.0 connects Claude Code, Codex and Cursor straight to a Framer project, and what those agents edit is a Framer project, so moving in means your repository stops being the version that runs your site. Fimo doesn’t set up a new source of truth, it embeds into the one you already have, so your marketers edit the site your coding agent produced, your developers keep shipping features into the same repository, and agents keep improving it with each change landing in a Git branch with a report, a preview and a diff for your team to review. Read the full breakdown Show less People choose Framer for the canvas, which gets a designer from idea to published site faster than anything else on the market, and the animation tooling is in a class of its own. The sites it publishes are server-rendered and rank perfectly well, hosting and the CDN come with the plan, and for a design-led team starting from nothing, it’s an easy recommendation and has been for years. In practice, the Framer path is that you draw the site on the canvas, model your collections, hand the marketing team a content seat, and publish from Framer’s hosting. That is sensible work when the platform decision came first, and it is the part that goes to waste when it didn’t, because your components already exist in the repository and your copy already sits in Markdown next to them. Adopting Framer means having somebody rebuild both on a canvas, and once that’s done the site still only changes when a person opens it. Framer 3.0 shipped on 16 June 2026 and moved a long way toward the coding agents. Agents now work on the canvas itself, building pages, generating layouts, writing copy, managing CMS content, adding SEO metadata and alt text, creating code components and auditing for broken links and accessibility problems. Branching shipped with them, so agent work sits in an isolated copy your team reviews before publishing. External Agents shipped too, and no separate MCP server is needed, so Claude Code or Cursor connects through the Framer CLI and gets access to the canvas, components, CMS and project context. Those agents point to a Framer project. Framer’s help articles recommend External Agents for structured project work, meaning CMS items, localizations, redirects and repeated content edits, and state that the agent works on your canvas in the editor rather than on the published site. Claude Code can read your local files and re-create what it finds as Framer pages and CMS items, which is a rebuild carried out by an agent rather than by a person, and your repository ends up as reference material somebody copied from instead of the thing running the site. Fimo reads the repository as it stands, so nothing gets redrawn, and it rebuilds how the site renders, which means a client-side app that crawlers and LLMs see as an empty shell comes out the other side server-rendered and readable. From there, it turns the content your coding agent wrote into a CMS your marketers edit on the page itself, and runs agents next to it for SEO, internal links, translations and content refreshes, each one a folder of plain files carrying a goal, a schedule and the permissions it runs under, versioned and reviewed like any other code. Fimo owns how the site renders from then on, so whatever your team ships next comes out server-rendered, whoever wrote it, and nobody has to switch tools to stay on the platform, because Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Devin and GitHub Copilot all write into the same repository. Your AI stack can write the whole site in an afternoon, but nothing in that stack manages the site once it’s live, which is the hole Fimo was built to fill, because brands want their AI code to become an autonomous, self-optimizing website with enterprise workflows, permission control, and audit logs around it. Framer is built for teams whose hardest problem is getting something beautiful live quickly and keeping design control over it, and it handles that better than anyone. Fimo is worth a look if your site is a product that keeps changing and you want the code to stay yours while it does. --- At a glance ## Framer vs Fimo at a glance Based on public documentation and pricing as of August 2026. Spot something wrong? Tell us at hello@fimo.ai and we'll fix it. Capability Framer Fimo Source of truth Framer The Framer project, once you move in Fimo Your repository, unchanged What it does after publish Framer Hosts and serves the site you designed Fimo Agents keep working on the site What agents work on Framer Your Framer project, pages, CMS and styles Fimo Any file in your repo How agents start Framer You prompt them Fimo A brief and a schedule, running on a clock Adding features later Framer Rebuild on the canvas or run two versions Fimo Open your coding agent, Fimo stays attached Pricing model Framer Per site, per editor, per locale Fimo Usage based, no seats Show all 13 capabilities Show fewer capabilities Code ownership Framer No code export, the project stays in Framer Fimo The repo is the product, history included A site that renders in the browser Framer Rebuilt on the canvas, not brought across Fimo Rebuilt server-rendered so crawlers can read it Review model Framer Branching inside Framer Fimo Git branch with report, preview and diff Copywriting Framer Agent writes copy on the canvas when asked Fimo Agent rewrites pages in a branch you review Internal linking Framer Agent audits and flags broken links Fimo Agent audits and fixes, including links inside components Translations Framer $20 per locale per month, Pro and above Fimo Agent translates content and interface strings What your team builds with Framer The canvas, or an agent driving the canvas Fimo Any coding agent, on the code itself --- Capabilities ## What you can do with Fimo that you can't with Framer Keep your repository as the source of truth instead of moving into a second one Go back to your coding agent months later and keep building, with Fimo still attached Let developers ship features and marketers ship content into the same project at once Turn a client-side rendered app into a server-rendered site crawlers and LLMs can read Keep it server-rendered afterward, whichever coding agent ships the next page Let everyone edit without paying per editor Set work running on a schedule rather than prompting an agent each time Give every agent its own server, database and asset bucket Roll anything back through Git rather than platform version history --- ## Framer builds websites, Fimo builds autonomous websites ### A site that keeps itself up to date. The jobs that decide whether your site is still earning traffic a year from now. Copy that stays accurate, internal links that point somewhere useful, schema that matches what’s rendered, pages in your other markets keeping pace with the English ones. Framer’s agents will do most of those well, but somebody has to ask. Fimo runs [an agent for each of those jobs](/features/autonomous-agents) on a schedule instead, so the SEO agent audits and fixes across every page, the content agent refreshes what has drifted, the translation agent covers your other markets, and every change lands in a branch your team merges or discards. Read the full breakdown Show less Both platforms will get a site live, and Framer will probably get there faster, so the difference isn’t launch day. A Framer agent will audit your broken links, write your alt text and refresh a page, and it will do a decent job of all three, though the model underneath is conversational, so the agent answers a question you asked, and whether your site is still current in March comes down to whether somebody opened the canvas in February. Fimo’s agents carry a brief and a schedule, so the SEO agent audits every page daily and the content agent refreshes weekly, each one landing a branch nobody had to request. There’s also the question of how far either platform can reach. Framer’s agents work on your Framer project, covering pages, components, CMS content, styles and SEO settings, and Framer points External Agents at structured project data like CMS items, localizations and redirects. Fimo’s agents run against the repository, so a page, a redirect, a schema block and a translation are all just files, and [the SEO and GEO work](/features/seo-geo) happens on the thing that actually gets served. ### Fimo agents run on a clock. They never stop. Each one has a schedule and a brief, not a chat window. SEO agent Daily, 6:00 Last run 2 hours ago Content agent Weekly, Monday Running now Translation agent On publish Waiting for the next post --- Automation ## Framer puts agents on the canvas, Fimo puts agents on your code Framer automates through agents that work inside your project and start when you prompt them. Fimo runs agents you brief once, which then work on the repository on their own schedule. Here are the two side by side. framer · agents ### They work inside your Framer project Framer Agents launched on 16 June 2026 and work on the canvas itself, building pages, generating layouts, writing copy, managing CMS content, adding SEO metadata and alt text, creating code components and auditing for broken links, accessibility problems and low contrast. Branching shipped alongside them, so agent work sits in an isolated copy of the site your team reviews before it goes live, and [Framer’s launch announcement](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260616909966/en/Framer-Launches-AI-Agents) describes every change as native Framer work. Read the full breakdown Show less The External Agents piece extends the same surface to your terminal. Framer needs no separate MCP server, so Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI or Windsurf connects through the Framer CLI and gets access to the canvas, components, CMS and project context. Once connected, the agent can read and write CMS collections, create, update and delete items, and handle localizations and redirects, and [Framer’s help documentation](https://www.framer.com/help/articles/use-external-agents-with-framer/) recommends them for that kind of structured project work. What the agent operates is a Framer project. Framer’s own answer to whether it touches the published site is no, since it works on the canvas in the editor and changes go live when somebody publishes, which leaves your repository outside the arrangement entirely. An agent can copy your Next.js pages into Framer, and the site that results is a Framer project rather than your code with a management layer on it, so the version your team maintains from then on is the one inside Framer. The starting model is the other constraint. A Framer agent runs when you prompt it, so the work that gets done is the work somebody thought to ask for that week, and agents draw down the AI credits included with your plan on every generation and every re-translation, with more available to buy. The cost of maintaining a site this way scales with how often you remember to ask. fimo · agents ### You describe what you want once, then Fimo keeps running Fimo asks for a sentence and a schedule, and asks once. You describe what you want kept true, whether that’s your top twenty pages staying accurate, competitor pricing pages being watched, or internal links resolving after every deploy, and the agent works out which files to touch and touches them on its own cadence. Nobody has to be at a keyboard for it to happen. Read the full breakdown Show less Each agent runs in [its own environment](/features/environments) with a dedicated server, database and asset bucket, so several can work in parallel on heavy jobs like full-site audits without competing for the same credit pool. Framer meters this centrally instead, drawing every agent run against the credits attached to your plan. The scope is the other difference, since a Fimo agent isn’t limited to what a project structure exposes. It can rewrite a section across thirty pages, fix the internal links inside a component, update the schema block that generates your structured data, and add the redirect that should have gone in when you renamed the URL, because all four of those are files sitting in the same repository. All of it runs from the free tier, and putting an agent on a schedule asks for a card rather than a monthly fee. --- Source of truth ## Framer becomes a second source of truth, Fimo joins the one you have Six months from now you'll want to add a pricing calculator, redesign the homepage, build a customer dashboard and wire up Stripe. Where your site lives decides whether that's an afternoon or an argument. With Fimo you open Codex or Claude Code, change the repository, and Fimo is still attached to the same project when you’re done, because it never took ownership of it. With Framer, that work happens in a codebase Framer isn’t running, so you either rebuild it on the canvas or you keep two versions of your website that were never designed to stay in step. Read the full breakdown Show less The two-version problem is the one teams underestimate. You bring a Codex-built site into Framer, start making changes inside Framer because that’s where the site now lives, and within a few weeks you have your original repository and a Framer project that no longer match, with nothing syncing them. Most teams resolve it by quietly promoting the Framer project to be the real one and letting the repository go stale, which works right up until they need something Framer can’t build, at which point the repository they abandoned is months out of date. Fimo doesn’t create a second version, it attaches to the one you already have. Your repository stays the source of truth, and Fimo adds the layers a repository doesn’t come with, which are content editing for people who don’t write code, hosting, and agents that keep the site improving. Nothing about that arrangement asks your engineers to change how they work or your marketing team to learn a build tool. That gives you two lanes running off the same project at the same time. Your developers open a coding agent and ship a pricing calculator, a dashboard and a Stripe integration. Your marketing manager changes a headline, adds fifteen case studies, translates the site into French and improves the SEO on the top twenty pages, and they do all of that without filing a ticket or asking anyone to open a code editor. Both lanes write into the same repository, and agent work arrives as a branch with a preview and a diff, so nothing merges without review. The decision compounds either way, because Framer has no code export, so whatever your agents build inside a Framer project stays inside a Framer project. If your site is a design-led marketing site that won’t change much structurally, that’s a fair trade for the canvas and Framer is the better tool. If your site is a product site that will keep growing features for years, keeping the codebase as the source of truth is the decision that stays cheap. --- Translations ## Translations, and their costs You add a sixth market and the bill goes up before a word gets translated, and your CMS count doubles again at the same time. Where each platform meters decides how far you expand. Framer’s localization is well built, since locales live in the editor, translations can be hand-tuned per string on the canvas, and you can swap images per market. It’s metered at $20 per locale per month on Pro and above, on top of your site plan and your seats, and the AI translation passes draw down your plan’s credits every time you edit and re-translate. Fimo’s translation agent works on files in the repository, so there’s no per-locale line and no cap on how many you run. Read the full breakdown Show less The cap is what teams hit before the price bothers them, because Framer counts CMS items per locale, so a 2,000-item collection in English and Spanish counts as 4,000 against your plan’s limit, and the only way past it is the next tier up rather than an add-on. A five-market rollout adds $80 a month in locale fees and quadruples your CMS count at the same time. Fimo’s agent translates a page, the interface strings that sit on it and the metadata around it in one pass, in a single branch, on the same schedule as everything else, so adding a sixth market is a line in the agent’s brief rather than a plan upgrade. --- The shift ## Using AI code? Fimo makes the most sense. Something has shifted in how sites get built, and Framer has moved further to meet it than most. Across 4.2 million developers between November 2025 and February 2026, AI-authored code reached [26.9% of all production code](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08945), up from 22% the previous quarter, and Google reported [75% of its new code was AI-generated](https://devops.com/google-ceo-says-75-of-new-code-is-ai-generated/) as of April 2026. Framer’s answer is to let those agents drive a Framer project. Fimo’s is to let them carry on writing code and manage what they produce. Read the full breakdown Show less Your team probably didn’t sit down last year and decide to change how they work, it just happened, and now the first version of most things exists in a repository long before anybody opens a tab about website platforms. Framer’s model still starts on the canvas, since that’s where the design control lives and giving it up would mean giving up the reason people choose Framer. External Agents extend the canvas to your terminal without moving where the site lives. When your project began in Claude Code and you’re four months in, adopting Framer still asks you to have an agent rebuild that work as Framer pages, and the version you keep is the Framer one. Your team carries on working in Claude Code, Codex or Cursor exactly as they were with Fimo, and the same holds if the site started life in a generator like Lovable, because Fimo adds a layer rather than replacing the project. There’s no approved-tools list either, so when a better coding agent turns up next quarter your team can move to it without that decision touching your website platform. The fair objection is that Framer never set out to manage a repository it didn’t create, and that’s true. It’s also why a growing number of teams look elsewhere, because not attempting something isn’t the same as nobody needing it, and the number of companies whose sites begin life in a coding agent goes up every quarter. --- Credit where due ## What Framer does well Teams with these requirements tend to land on Framer and get more or less exactly what they came for. ### The canvas, and the speed of it Nothing else gets a designer from idea to published site as quickly, and the animation and interaction tooling is in a class of its own. Framer reports 188,000 companies on the platform across 200 countries. ### Sites that are fast and rank Framer pages are server-rendered, hosting and the CDN are handled, and SEO settings and sitemaps are built in without a plugin or an add-on. A Framer site is not a hard site to get indexed. ### Agents that shipped and work Framer 3.0 landed agents, Branching and External Agents on the same day with no waitlist, and they edit live projects rather than generating mockups. Framer reports that Perplexity built its site with no developers and that Superhuman completes 85% of site work through design and marketing alone. --- Pricing ## Framer vs Fimo pricing: seats and locales versus usage Framer charges you for the site, then the people editing it, then each language. Fimo meters the work itself, so you pay for what agents ship, not for logins. framer · pricing Plan Price What you get Free $0 Framer subdomain, badge, no custom domain Basic $10/mo Custom domain, 2 CMS collections, 50GB Pro $30/mo Staging, redirects, roles, locale add-ons Scale From $100/mo Higher limits, premium CDN, custom locale regions Add-on Price Full editor seat $20/month each Content editor seat $10/month each, CMS and localization only Locales $20 per locale per month, Pro and above Advanced Hosting $200/month Framer cut editor seats from $40 to $20 in May 2026 and added the $10 content editor seat, which made teams cheaper to run than before, though the meter still ticks per person, so a five-person team on Pro with three extra full editors and one content editor is $100 a month on one site, before locales. Site plans are per published site, so an agency running ten client sites on Pro carries $300 a month in plans alone, and editor seats bill at the highest-tier plan in the workspace. fimo · pricing Plan Price What you pay for Free $0 3 projects, 3 members, no card Pay as you go $0 + usage Unlimited projects and members Pro $149/mo Bigger allowances, lower rates Enterprise Custom SSO, audit logs, SLA Metered on AI credits, agent-hours and bandwidth, never on people or languages. Free runs agents by hand on up to three projects. Add a card and you are on Pay as you go, still no monthly fee, with unlimited projects and members, scheduled runs, and usage past the monthly allowances at $2.00 per 1,000 credits, $0.75 per agent-hour and $0.15 per GB. Pro bundles more of each at half those rates. No seat is ever billed and no locale is, so the manager who edits one page a quarter costs you nothing and the tenth market costs nothing extra to open. --- Migration ## Thinking about migrating from Framer? Go in with your eyes open, because there's no export button here and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling a scraper. What it costs you ### One to two developer weeks, and it's a rebuild Framer publishes from Framer and there is no codebase behind the canvas to take with you, so most teams point a coding agent at the live site, have it generate the pages as framework components, then correct the animation and responsive behaviour by hand, which is the part that takes the time. Your CMS content comes out separately and gets converted to Markdown in the repo, forms need somewhere to post, and redirects need recreating. Check your billing before you start, since annual plans don't refund the months you won't use. What you get back ### Your codebase becomes the source of truth again Three full editors and one content editor on Pro is $840 a year in seats alone, before a single language is added at $20 a month each, and before the credits your agents draw down every time somebody prompts one. More to the point, your site goes back to being something your coding agent can open, so the next feature is a change to the repository rather than a rebuild on a canvas. It gets served server-rendered on the way in and stays that way, and the recurring maintenance starts happening without anybody scheduling it, because the agents see the whole site and they never get pulled onto something more urgent. --- The decision ## Framer vs Fimo: Choose more than just a pretty design The question underneath this comparison is whether your website is a design artefact or a product. If it's a design artefact that gets refreshed every couple of years, Framer's canvas is worth moving into. If it's a product that keeps growing features, moving into a canvas means the codebase you keep building in stops being the one your site runs on. Choose Framer if Your site gets designed on a canvas and there's no repository behind it Animation and interaction detail are what your site is judged on The site is mostly static marketing and won't grow features Your team doesn't want to keep coding in Claude Code or Codex to edit and grow the site Choose Fimo if Your site came out of Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, and your team wants to keep using whatever comes next You expect to keep adding features for years and want the code to stay yours Developers and marketers need to work on the same project at the same time You want the maintenance happening on a schedule rather than when somebody asks --- FAQ ## Common questions ### If I build in Codex and connect it to Framer, can I keep developing in Codex? You can keep opening Codex, but the question is which version runs your site. Once the site is rebuilt inside Framer, the Framer project is what publishes, so changes you make in the original repository don't appear unless somebody carries them across by hand. With Fimo the repository is still the thing that runs, so Codex changes go live the same way they always did. ### What happens six months later when I want to add a feature? With Fimo you open your coding agent, add the pricing calculator or the customer dashboard or the Stripe integration, and Fimo stays attached to the same project, since it never took ownership of it. With Framer that work sits in a codebase Framer isn't running, so it gets rebuilt on the canvas or maintained separately. ### Can my developers and my marketing team work at the same time? Yes, and that's the point of keeping one source of truth. Developers ship features through their coding agent while marketers change headlines, add case studies, translate pages and improve SEO through Fimo, both writing into the same repository, with agent work arriving as a branch carrying a preview and a diff. ### Does Fimo replace my coding agent? No. It picks up where the coding agent leaves off, so your team keeps building with Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, and Fimo turns that output into a site your marketers can edit and agents can maintain. ### Can I use Framer with a site built by Claude Code or Cursor? Yes, through External Agents. Claude Code connects to a Framer project over the Framer CLI and can read and write your pages, CMS items, localizations and redirects, and it can read your local files and re-create what it finds inside Framer. What you end up running is a Framer project rather than your repository. ### What's the difference between Framer Agents and Fimo's agents? Framer's agents work on your Framer project and start when you prompt them, covering pages, components, CMS content, styles and SEO settings, with the work landing in a branch inside Framer. Fimo's agents work on any file in your repository, carry a standing brief and a schedule so they run without being asked, and hand back a Git branch with a report, a preview and a diff. ### Does Framer export my code? No. Framer sites publish from Framer's hosting and there's no codebase behind the canvas to take with you. Third-party tools will scrape a published site into static HTML, which is a copy of the output rather than the project you were working in. ### Can I keep using my AI coding tools? Yes, all of them. Build and change your site with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Devin or GitHub Copilot, and swap between them whenever you want, since Fimo works on the repository rather than on the tool that wrote it. Your team, your agents and Fimo all edit one source of truth. ### Can Fimo fix a site that renders client-side? Yes, and it's one of the more common reasons teams arrive. Fimo rebuilds the site server-rendered as part of taking it on, so pages that search engines and AI crawlers previously saw as an empty shell get served as HTML they can actually read, and it stays that way afterward because rendering is Fimo's job rather than something each coding agent has to get right. ### How good are the agents, honestly? About as good as what your engineers already accept from Claude Code in production, which is exactly why every run lands in a branch for review rather than going live on its own. ### Can Fimo's agents break my site? They work in a branch rather than pushing to production, so someone reviews the report, the preview and the diff before anything merges, and anything that ships can be restored from version history like any other change. ### What does Fimo cost compared to Framer? Fimo has three paid-for-usage plans and no seats. Free is $0 for up to three projects and three members, with agents run by hand. Pay as you go is still $0 a month once a card is on file, and it lifts those caps, adds scheduled agent runs, and meters usage past the included allowances at $2.00 per 1,000 AI credits, $0.75 per agent-hour and $0.15 per GB. Pro is $149 a month for bigger allowances at about half those rates. Framer stacks a site plan from $10, full editor seats at $20 each, content editor seats at $10 each, and $20 per locale per month on Pro and above. The practical difference is that a Fimo bill follows work done rather than headcount and language count. ### Am I locked in with Fimo? No. Your site is framework code and Markdown with a full Git history, hosted in our private Git repository. You can clone it and take it anywhere, and everything the agents wrote stays in that history as ordinary commits. ### Does Fimo work with GitHub? Not yet. Your code is hosted in our private Git repository, with the full history available to clone. GitHub support is on the roadmap. ### Who isn't Fimo for? Fimo runs on JavaScript sites built with Next.js, Astro, Svelte or React Router, so a WordPress or Squarespace site isn't a fit yet. It's also not the right choice when your site is designed on a canvas with no repository behind it and animation detail is the thing you're judged on, which is the brief Framer was built for. --- Keep exploring ## More comparisons [ Webflow vs Fimo Features, pricing and agents compared ](/compare/webflow)[ Storyblok vs Fimo Features, pricing and automation compared ](/compare/storyblok) --- ## Fimo is free to start. Bring the site your coding agent built and have an agent running before anyone asks for a budget. [Try Fimo for free](https://fimo.ai/auth/sign-up) Book a demo