LinnStudio vs Framer.
Framer is loved by designers for its polish and animation. If you’d rather not design every page yourself, or pay someone who can, here’s how a site built and looked after for you compares.
How Framer works, and what it costs.
Framer works like a design app that publishes straight to the web, which is why designers and startups love it. Like Webflow, it gives you fine control and expects you to design every page yourself, or pay a Framer expert to. Its AI agent can draft pages and copy, using monthly credits, but the SEO, the tracking and the final words are still yours to get right. And there’s no export: a Framer site only runs on Framer’s own hosting.
- £8–£35 a month for a site plan, Basic to Pro
- £1,400–£3,600 for a Framer expert to build a small site
- 10–50 hours of your time to a first version
Framer or LinnStudio? The facts, side by side.
| Do it yourself | Done for you | |
|---|---|---|
| Framer | LinnStudio | |
| Cost | £8–£35 a month Basic to Pro, plus your time | £59–£129 a month No build fee |
| Design | Anything you can design yourself Works like a design app | Custom and premium Designed around your customers |
| Time you put in | 10–50 hours to a first version Learning Framer, then designing | Under 2 hours One call, then your Content Kit |
| PageSpeed guarantee | None Down to your design and its animations | 95+ mobile score For as long as you’re with us |
| SEO and AI search optimisation | Settings built in, you do the work Redirects need the Pro plan | Set up for you Structured data, speed and clear answers |
| Who writes the copy | You, with help from its AI Drafts use monthly AI credits | We write every page From one call, so it sounds like you |
| Changes after launch | You, or a Framer expert you pay In Framer’s editor | Unlimited, done for you Free, and done within 48 hours |
| Taking your site with you | Not possible It only runs on Framer’s hosting | Yes, after 12 payments Your domain and content are always yours |
| Support | Help centre and community forum | Direct and personal From the people who built it |
How the numbers were worked out
UK prices, checked in September 2026. Most dollar prices are converted at about $1.26 to the pound.
- Framer
- Site plans: Basic £8 a month billed yearly (£10 month to month) and Pro £23 (£35), Framer’s own UK prices. Basic has 30 pages and no redirects; Pro adds redirects, staging and 150 pages. Extra editors cost £15–£25 a month each. Framer doesn’t export a site’s code, so it can’t be hosted anywhere else. A Framer expert typically charges $1,800–$4,500 for a small site, about £1,400–£3,600.
- LinnStudio
- £59 or £129 a month, with no build fee. No minimum term. The price includes hosting, security, backups and unlimited changes done for you.
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Why LinnStudio over Framer? Three good reasons.
Polish takes a designer, so we bring one.
Framer’s showcase sites are made by designers who know it inside out. We design yours for you, premium and custom, around how your customers choose.
Built on Framer, kept on Framer.
Framer doesn’t export your site, so it only ever runs on Framer’s hosting, at Framer’s prices. Your site is yours after 12 monthly payments, with its files and a guide to host it anywhere.
Search and tracking, set up for you.
On Framer, the SEO settings, the tracking and the redirects from your old site are yours to set up, and redirects need the Pro plan. We set them all up for you, and move your site for free.
When Framer is the better choice
- You’re a designer, or work with one, and want to shape every page and animation yourself.
- You need a striking launch page or portfolio quickly, and you’re happy for it to live on Framer.
Switching from Framer is simple. We move it for you.
We move your content from Framer for free, rebuilt as fast, plain files that can live with any host. Your domain can stay where it’s registered, and we redirect your old page addresses to the new ones, so Google can follow the move.
- Free, whoever built your site
- Your old site stays live until the new one is ready
- Your domain stays in your name, never ours: keep it where it is, or we move it to an easier provider
- Your email carries on as normal
- Old page addresses redirected, so Google can follow
Good questions, straight answers.
Something we haven’t covered? Email hello@linnstudio.co.uk and we’ll get back to you within two working days.
Why not just use a no-code builder like Wix, Squarespace or Webflow?
They’re fine if you have the time and the skills. You pay less per month, but the work is all yours: picking a template that other sites share too, writing every page, setting up the SEO and tracking, and making every change after that. It typically takes 10 to 50 hours to get to a first version, and the result often still looks like a template. You don’t own the site either: with most builders you can’t take it with you if you leave, and only Webflow lets you export the code.
Will I lose my Google ranking if I move?
Not if the move is done properly, and we plan for it from the start. We carry your key pages and content across and redirect your old page addresses to the new ones, so Google can follow the move. Rankings sometimes dip for a few weeks while Google catches up. They usually recover after that, and often improve, because the new site is faster and built with search in mind.
Can I host my site somewhere else?
Yes, once the site is yours: after 12 monthly payments, or whenever you pay the rest of the first 12. Tell us, and we’ll send you the site’s files with a simple handover guide. Your site is built as plain, fast files, so it runs on almost any host, such as Netlify, Vercel or your own Cloudflare account. We’ll help you point your domain at the new host, and your email isn’t affected. If your forms or analytics run through accounts we manage, we’ll move them into your name or help you set up your own, so nothing stops working. After the move, hosting and updates are yours to manage, and if you’d like help later, we can quote for it as a one-off, or you can come back to a LinnStudio plan.
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