Card #226 · Webflow Apps
Excessive pricing and hosting costs for small businesses and freelancers
We are finding Webflow's recent price hikes and hosting fees unaffordable, especially for small businesses and entry-level designers. The cost of services has increased significantly, making it difficult to justify the expense to clients compared to cheaper alternatives.
Pain score
0.73/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach1.00distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.11upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization1.00willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 6 verified quotes
The limits are terrible and the pricing is terrible.
The normal entry level for new designers, building websites for friends and local small businesses, is really unaffordable now.
Basically they're not willing to eat around 290 per year anymore, when they know or reasearch for themselves that it can be way cheaper.
The cost of everything is 5x in the last few years and so much more limiting.
I just wish Webflow could recognise how frustrating their modelling is becoming and how impossible it is to work as an agency with them.
I think they are squeezing the small contractors and individuals who want to have a website but don't want to bother with hosting etc.
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