Duda vs Framer Comparison 2026
Duda charges per project, from $19 a month billed annually, and is built for an agency handing finished sites to clients with white-label permissions. Framer starts free on a Framer subdomain and is built for one person designing a single site that looks considered, with the canvas doubling as the published page. Duda's own guidance says a single personal site is better served by Framer. The axis is really who the site is for: a string of client projects, or one site somebody is designing themselves.
A site builder aimed at people building for clients
Design a site and publish it from the same canvas
At a glance
- Framer starts cheaper, at $10.
- Only Framer has a free tier.
Side by side
Duda | Framer | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $19 | From $10 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free trial, then paid | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier (they differ) | No | Yes |
| Billing | Not stated | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial (they differ) | 14 days | None |
Duda
A site builder aimed at people building for clients
Duda is built for somebody making sites for other people: client permissions, a white-label editor and a per-site price that scales with the number of projects rather than the size of one. Sites are fast and responsive without hand-tuning. The team and white-label tiers are where its actual audience sits, and the cheapest plan is a single site for somebody trying it. Anybody building one personal site will find the agency machinery irrelevant and the price higher than the consumer builders.
Our note
Count the sites you will publish, not the features you want, because the per-project charge is what actually sets your bill here. Against Webflow the split is that this is easier to hand to a non-technical client and harder to push into an unusual layout.
Framer
Design a site and publish it from the same canvas
Framer collapses the gap between designing a page and shipping it: the canvas is the site, and publishing is a button rather than a handoff. For a creator that means a portfolio or launch page that looks designed without hiring anybody. The CMS is real but small, so a blog with hundreds of posts belongs elsewhere.
Why people weigh these two
- Framer instead of Duda
- Framer designs and publishes a site from the same canvas, free tier and plans from $10, a faster and cheaper pick for a single site.
- Duda instead of Framer
- Duda is built for people designing sites for clients rather than one project of their own, on a free trial instead of a free tier, from $19.
Which one should you pick
Duda is the pick for a freelancer or studio building sites for other people, where client permissions and white-label handover matter and a steady stream of small projects justifies the per-site pricing. Basic is $19 a month billed annually for the first site, plus $19 a month for each one after.
Framer is the pick for a creator building one portfolio, launch page or small site and doing the designing personally. It is free to start on a Framer subdomain, and Basic is $10 a month for a custom domain, less than half of Duda's entry price for a single site. The CMS tops out at ten collections on Pro, so a blog with hundreds of posts belongs somewhere else.
Common questions
- Which is cheaper for one site?
- Framer, clearly. It is free on a Framer subdomain, and a custom domain is $10 a month on Basic. Duda's cheapest plan is $19 a month billed annually and assumes an agency structure, permissions and handover a single personal site does not need.
- Can Framer handle several client sites the way Duda can?
- Not in the same way. Framer has no client-permission system or white-label editor built for handing a finished site to somebody else under their own brand, which is the entire premise of Duda's Team, Agency and White Label tiers.
- Does either have a free tier?
- Framer does: 500 credits, 1 GB of bandwidth and a Framer subdomain, at no cost. Duda has no free tier at all, only a 14-day trial that needs no card, followed by a 30-day money-back guarantee if you do subscribe.
- Which one is better for a blog with a lot of posts?
- Neither is built for volume, but Duda is the closer fit. Framer's CMS tops out at ten collections on its Pro plan, aimed at a small set of repeated pages like a portfolio, and a blog running into hundreds of posts will find that ceiling before long.
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