Framer vs Sellfy

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Framer builds a designed marketing site with a CMS. Sellfy is a creator store with checkout and file delivery. Pick Framer to present a company, Sellfy to sell your own products.

The verdict

If you sell your own ebooks, templates, courses or merchandise and want to start selling this week, pick Sellfy. Checkout, secure file delivery and subscriptions are already there.

If you run a company that needs a well-designed marketing site you can change yourself, pick Framer. The CMS and hosting are included, and a designer or marketer can publish the same day.

If you are a creator who also wants a brand-led website, you do not have to choose one. Sellfy lets you embed buy buttons on any page, so a Framer site could carry them. Test that on a free Framer site before you commit to it.

I'd not use Framer to run a store, and I'd not use Sellfy as a company website. Each is weak where the other is strong.

What the data says
  • Sellfy covers more of the features we compared: 2 of 2, against 1.
  • Only Framer has a free plan to start on.
  • Framer starts lower, at $10/mo against $22/mo.
  • In our Website ranking, Sellfy places 8 and Framer 5 of 11.

Side by side

Framer and Sellfy compared
6 points compared
Starts at$10/mo$22/mo
Free planYesNo
APIYesYes
MCP serverNot known yetNot known yet
Native ecommerceNoYes
Visual no-code editorYesYes
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Plans and pricing

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Framer

  • FreeFree Framer domain, 500 AI credits, 1 GB bandwidth.Free
  • BasicSite plan with custom domain, 2 CMS collections and 50 GB bandwidth; yearly option exists but amount not read.$10/mo
  • ProSite plan with 10 CMS collections and 100 GB bandwidth; extra editors 20 per seat per month.$30/mo
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Sellfy

  • StarterUp to $10k in sales per year; $29 monthly or $22 per month billed yearly; 0% transaction fees.$29/mo
  • BusinessUp to $50k in sales per year; $79 monthly or $59 per month billed yearly; adds upselling and affiliates.$79/mo
  • PremiumUp to $200k in sales per year; $159 monthly or $119 per month billed yearly; priority support.$159/mo

Prices as the vendors list them. They change often; the final price is on their sites.

Who each is for

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Choose Framer if…

Pick Framer when design quality matters and the people who own the site are not developers. It suits designers and marketing teams who want to build, publish and change a company website themselves.

There is a free plan, so you can build and test before you pay. The AI agent changes the real page, so you can see and edit what it did, and code components in React cover cases the visual tools do not.

Watch growth. Pricing is per site, extra editors cost money and pages, CMS collections and bandwidth have limits per plan. A Framer site also lives in Framer, so moving later means rebuilding. It is not meant for a shop.

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Choose Sellfy if…

Pick Sellfy when you are a creator or small brand with a handful of products and an audience, and you want to sell quickly with little setup. It handles the storefront, the checkout and file delivery, and it has its own email campaigns, abandoned cart messages and upsells.

The vendor states there are no transaction fees from Sellfy. Plans are limited by annual sales volume instead, so check where each tier ends.

Expect a ceiling on customisation. If you need unusual layouts, custom checkout logic or a large catalogue, you will outgrow it. Customers, products and history live inside Sellfy, so ask how to export them early. There is no free plan listed.

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