Framer vs Wix: Which platform should you use?
Framer produces significantly more professional websites with better performance, cleaner design, and superior animations. Wix is a budget-friendly option for personal projects but falls short for business websites that need to convert and impress.
What is Wix?
Wix is a drag-and-drop website builder aimed at small businesses and individuals. It offers a wide range of templates, an app marketplace, and built-in tools for e-commerce, bookings, and marketing.
Wix
Strengths
- Very low barrier to entry — anyone can build a site
- Huge template library
- Built-in app marketplace for added functionality
- Free plan available
- All-in-one: hosting, domain, email included
- Good for very simple personal or hobby sites
Weaknesses
- Unprofessional output — sites often look amateurish
- Poor performance and slow load times
- Bloated code that hurts SEO
- Limited design customization beyond templates
- Can't export your site — locked into the platform
- Aggressive upselling and ads on free/lower plans
Framer
Advantages
- Professional-grade design output
- Dramatically better performance and load times
- Clean code that search engines love
- Advanced animations and interactions
- Full responsive control across breakpoints
- No platform lock-in — you own your design
- Taken seriously by investors, partners, and clients
- Better SEO results due to performance advantages
Choose Framer for professional websites. Wix is for hobby projects.
For any business that wants to be taken seriously online, Framer is the only choice between these two. Wix is fine for personal blogs or hobby projects, but its output quality, performance, and SEO are not suitable for B2B companies, startups, or any organization investing in growth.
Frequently asked questions
Is Framer really better than Wix for business?
Yes, significantly. Framer produces faster sites, cleaner code, better design, and superior SEO performance. Every metric that matters for business — conversion rate, page speed, search rankings — favors Framer.
Is Wix cheaper than Framer?
Wix has a free plan (with ads) and paid plans starting at $17/month. Framer starts at $5/month. But the quality difference is massive — you get what you pay for.
Can I migrate from Wix to Framer?
Yes. We handle Wix to Framer migrations. Since Wix doesn't allow code export, we rebuild the site fresh in Framer — which typically results in a much better site anyway.
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