Framer retired its Scale plan and cut editor seats to a flat $20 in its 2026 billing overhaul

On 27 May 2026, Framer switched to a new billing system, and the change is worth reading closely if you run a site there as a team, because it moves money around in a way the headline plan price hides. The plan names got simpler, one plan disappeared, and the part of the bill that usually grows fastest, the per-editor seat, got cheaper and flat. None of the sticker prices on the plans themselves went up.

What actually changed

Framer retired the Scale plan, which had cost $100 a month, and now offers two paid site plans: Basic at $10 a month, for personal and small sites, and Pro at $30 a month, for businesses and teams, alongside the free tier and a custom Enterprise plan. Basic also got more generous, with bandwidth raised from 10 GB to 50 GB and CMS collections from one to two at the same $10 price. If you are already on a paid plan, nothing changes unless you choose to switch.

The seat price is the real story

The change that moves the most money is the editor seat. A full editor seat is now a flat $20 a month on every plan, down from $40 on the higher tiers, and Framer added a second seat type: a Content Editor seat at $10 a month that gives someone full CMS access and a simplified toolset without a full design seat. So a marketer or writer who only edits content no longer needs a $20 design seat at all. For a team, this is where the bill lives. A plan is one line; seats multiply by headcount. A Pro team that needed three full editors used to pay the plan plus three seats at the old rate; the same three seats at $20, or a mix of $20 design seats and $10 content seats, is a materially different number.

Why this lands on your true cost, not the plan price

This is the trap our website platform work keeps returning to: the plan price is the number you compare, but the per-seat and per-editor costs are the number you actually pay once a real team touches the site. A platform that looks cheap on the plan can cost more than a dearer one the moment you add editors, and the reverse is true too. Framer making seats flat and adding a cheaper content-only seat is a genuine cut for teams, but the only way to know what it means for you is to add the seats you will actually assign, not the plan alone.

Our free website platform TCO calculator models the three-year cost of Framer against WordPress and Webflow with the seats and add-ons a real team uses, so the comparison reflects your setup rather than the sticker price. For the fuller breakdown, our guide on the three-year cost of Webflow, WordPress and Framer walks where each one hides its cost, and our piece on why the cheapest managed host is rarely the cheapest makes the same point for the hosting bill underneath.