Webflow

Webflow is a browser-based visual web development platform that lets designers and marketers build production websites without writing code. Unlike page builders that produce bloated markup, its visual canvas maps directly to CSS: every padding, flexbox alignment, grid column, and transition you set in the UI generates semantic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that a developer would recognise.

The Designer is the core canvas, a drag-and-drop layout editor that exposes the full CSS box model, flexbox, CSS Grid, and custom animations. It is more capable and more technical than competitors such as Squarespace: you can build arbitrary layouts, but you need CSS concepts such as positioning, overflow, and z-index to use it well. Scroll-triggered animations, hover states, parallax, Lottie, and page transitions are built in the Designer without JavaScript.

The CMS lets content authors manage structured content such as blog posts, team members, and products through a clean editor, while designers define the presentation separately. Collections can be referenced across the site and support filtering, sorting, and multi-reference fields, and a REST API covers headless use. E-commerce plans add a product catalog, cart, checkout, and inventory management, with Webflow's own transaction fee waived on higher plans.

Code export lets developers download clean HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and host it anywhere, which makes Webflow usable as a design-to-code tool. Enterprise adds SOC 2 compliance, SSO, advanced roles, and a white-labelled editor for clients.

Workspace plans are separate from Site plans: Workspace plans cover team collaboration (editors, client seats, project management), while Site plans cover the published site's bandwidth, CMS item limits, and features.