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Framer vs. Figma: Which is best for publishing high-performance sites?
Both Figma and Framer let you design and publish websites, but Framer is built for high-performance, interactive marketing sites with animations, SEO, CMS, and precise control—without bottlenecks.
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Why choose Framer over Figma?
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From design to live in one platform
Both Framer and Figma offer site publishing, but Framer is purpose-built for high-performing, interactive marketing sites. What you design in Framer goes live exactly as intended, with fine-tuned animations and SEO.
Seamless collaboration
Both tools enable collaboration, but only Framer lets designers and marketers work together on a live website. With real-time editing, version control, and one-click publishing, Framer removes bottlenecks from the design-to-web workflow.
True creative freedom
Framer’s interactive canvas brings marketing sites to life with animations and effects that go live instantly. Use built-in features or extend with plugins and AI-generated advanced components to create high-fidelity, interactive sites.
Framer vs. Figma: compare design, functionality, and publishing
Feature | Framer | Figma | What this means for you |
|---|---|---|---|
Availability | Free site publishing on | Requires paid plan | Publish for free, |
Design flexibility | Freeform canvas, fully | Visual site builder with | Build and launch fully |
Ease of use | Intuitive no-code | Limited website builder | No handoff or extra |
Live interactivity | Fully functional live | Supports basic | Deliver high-fidelity sites |
Animations | No-code animations | Basic animations | Bring designs to |
CMS | Built-in content | No native CMS | Manage content directly |
SEO Tools | Built-in SEO and | Basic SEO | Get better rankings |
Publishing | One-click website | Limited publishing | Publish high-performance |
Collaboration | Real-time editing with | Real-time design | Teams can edit and |
Why switch from Figma to Framer?
Go beyond design with advanced interactions
Figma’s freeform canvas is great for design, while Framer builds on it with advanced interactions and AI-generated components—so you can design fully interactive websites with ease.
Built-in SEO and web performance
Figma lets you publish sites, while Framer optimizes them for speed, SEO, and performance, so pages are fast and discoverable without extra work.
A better way to collaborate
Figma enables design collaboration, while Framer’s built-in CMS and roles let marketers and content teams update live sites without devs.
One-click publishing
Forget third-party website builders—Framer lets you design and launch a fully responsive, high-performance website in one click.
Framer scales with your business.
Framer helps teams design, publish, and manage high-performing websites with scalable hosting, a built-in CMS, and seamless collaboration—making it easy for designers and marketers to launch and update real sites together.
Musa M.
Figma for web design.
Ayush S.
Product Designer
Design and publish websites in minutes! And for free!
Durvesh C.
User Interface Designer
Smooth and easy to migrate no code tool.
Shaddy
My go-to tool for website designing.
Armaan A.
Framer is easy to use and awesome tool for desinging creative websites in a matter of minutes.
Chris G.
Framer is awesome
Marcelo A.
CEO and Co-Founder
Great marketing site building in no time.
Priya P.
Product Designer
Best tool in market to create and ship website live faster.
Alex C.
Manager
A good balance between full customization and easy to use platform.
Nidhi B.
Content Writer
The road to no-code interface designing has been made easy with applications like Framer.
Shreyas S.
Community Manager
Best easy to use no code website builder.
Jorge H.
Founder
Web design and development brought to a new level - also friendly for non-tech people
Erman M.
Freelance designer
The easiest web design tool I’ve ever used.
Selçuk K.
Senior DevOps Consultant
Easy and powerful.
Leo A.
Amazing tool for no code modern web design and publishing
Marlon B.
Principal UX Designer
This app saved my career!
Mariannne R.
Principal UX Designer
This app saved my career!
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