What you're really buying

Framer is loved by designers who work in design tools all day. If that's you, it's a lovely place to build a page. But the design tool is the product. If you can't design, Framer gives you a beautiful empty page and a template store. Turning a template into a finished website is still your job.

What it costs

• · Framer Basic: $10 a month billed yearly ($120 a year). Limited to 30 pages and 2 collections.

• · Framer Pro: $30 a month billed yearly ($360 a year) for room to grow.

• · The catch: every editor seat costs $20 a month extra on every paid plan. That's $240 a year. Editing your own website is a paid role.

• · One person with one editable website pays $120 + $240 = $360 a year on Basic. Mevin Simple: $84 your first year, then $99. Editing is included, because of course it is.

Why people pick Mevin

Mevin doesn't hand you a design tool. It hands you a website. Describe what you're building and the AI designs the whole thing: colors, pages, everything. Then you can change anything yourself. No seat fee, no meter. The $20 a month Framer charges you to touch your website is $0 on Mevin, always.

Collections aren't limited either. Blog posts, projects and products each get their own page. That's the core of the product, not a paid extra. If something's missing, you talk to the founder and it gets built. Not queued behind a request board.

Which one should you pick?

If you're a designer who wants full control and doesn't mind the seat math, Framer will treat you well. If you want the website itself, designed for you and yours to edit forever, Mevin is the shorter path. Around a quarter of the yearly bill, with no fee for every person who logs in.