What Framer's Free Plan Includes

Framer's free plan gives you a real, publishable site with a working CMS — 10 collections, 1,000 pages — on a free framer.app address, but the site carries a "Made in Framer" badge and can't use a custom domain until you upgrade. Here's what's actually included, sourced from Framer's pricing page and Framer's help center, checked September 2026 — re-check the page yourself, since Framer's plan details are the kind of thing that gets revised.

What does Framer's Free plan actually include?

Framer's own pricing page FAQ lays out the free-plan specifics in one line: "Projects on the Free plan include access to 10 CMS collections, 1,000 pages, 5 MB file uploads, and one free locale to try" (Framer, Pricing, checked September 2026). That's a real content management system, not a token version of one — 10 separate collections is enough structure for a blog, a portfolio, and a team-bios section on the same free site, and our guide to how the Framer CMS works covers what a collection, field, and item actually are if you're new to the concept.

Framer's own description of who the Free plan is for: it's "ideal for non-commercial use," letting you "explore Framer, use it as a design tool, or create templates." That framing matters — Framer positions Free as a genuine tool for personal, exploratory, or template-building work, not a crippled trial meant only to convert you to a paid plan quickly.

What address does a free Framer site get, and does it carry a badge?

Every published Framer site gets a free address on Framer's own domain. Framer's help center confirms the format directly: "Your site will automatically generate a framer.app domain" (Framer Help, "Publishing your Framer website", checked September 2026). That subdomain works without any extra setup — publishing to it is the default outcome of hitting Publish, before you've touched domain settings at all.

Free-plan sites also carry the "Made in Framer" badge, and there are exactly two documented ways to remove it: upgrading to a paid plan, or moving the site off Framer's hosting entirely. Framer's own help article addresses this directly, and the removal mechanism ties to the same domain requirement above — connecting a custom domain (which itself requires a paid plan) or upgrading your subscription is what makes the badge disappear, not a setting you can toggle independently on the Free plan.

What needs a paid plan that the Free plan doesn't include?

A few specific things are gated to Basic or Pro, not bundled into Free at any level:

• A custom domain. Framer's Free-plan FAQ states this without qualification: "to connect a custom domain, you'll need to upgrade to a paid plan." There's no way to point your own domain at a Free-plan Framer site.
• More CMS headroom. The Free plan's 10 collections and 1,000 pages are generous for a small site, but a larger content operation will run into these caps before it runs into a paid plan's higher ones — our Framer CMS guide covers the specific collection and item caps by plan if you're sizing this against real content volume.
• Larger file uploads. Free caps uploads at 5 MB per file, which is workable for most images but tight for higher-resolution photography, longer video, or large PDFs.
• More than one free locale. The Free plan includes "one free locale to try," while adding translation locales beyond that is a paid add-on available on Basic and Pro.
• Removing the Framer badge, as covered above — tied to a paid plan or your own domain, not a free-plan setting.

Is the Free plan enough to actually build and test a real site?

Yes, for evaluation and for a genuinely non-commercial project — Framer's own positioning backs that up. You can design, populate a real CMS, publish to a working framer.app address, and share that link with anyone, all without paying. What you can't do on Free is put your own domain on it or remove the Framer badge, which is exactly the pair of things that matter once a site moves from testing the tool to being your live site.

What should I check before committing to Free for a real project?

• Confirm you don't need a custom domain right away. If the project is meant to launch under your own domain from day one, budget for at least Basic before you start building content you'd need to move.
• Count your actual content types against the 10-collection, 1,000-page ceiling before assuming Free has room for everything you're planning — a blog, a case-study section, and a jobs board can add up faster than it looks.
• Check your typical file sizes against the 5 MB upload cap, especially for video or high-resolution images, since that's a hard limit on Free rather than something you can request an exception to.
• Re-check Framer's pricing page directly before you build around any of these numbers — Framer's own FAQ notes these are current figures, not guaranteed to stay fixed.

Where does Figment fit in?

Not directly for this decision — Figment isn't a Framer alternative in the CMS-and-hosting sense above. Figment's own free tier works differently: unlimited sites on figment.so with a badge, since Figment publishes a Figma design as a live site through its Figma plugin rather than offering a CMS, collections, or locales of its own. If what you actually need is Framer's CMS and content structure, Framer's own plans — covered in full in our Framer pricing guide — are the right comparison, including the point at which its usage-based add-ons (extra locales, CMS items, bandwidth) start costing more than the base plan price.

Bottom line: Framer's Free plan is a real tool — a working CMS with 10 collections and 1,000 pages, publishable to your own framer.app address — not a locked demo. What it withholds is specific and consistent: no custom domain, a visible Framer badge, a 5 MB upload cap, and only one free locale. If none of those three gaps matter for your project yet, Free is enough to actually build and test on; the moment a custom domain does matter, that's the one requirement Free can't meet at any level.