As a freelance, do i need to pay two webflow?

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Hi,
I will open my company as a freelancer and I want to know if I need to pay two plans; one to make my portfolio as freelancer (cms plan) and freelancer to create pages for my clients?
Could i buy freelancer and create my webpage portfolio just with this plan?

Another question is do I need certificate webflow to create pages for my cliens using the freelancer plan?

Thank you very much
Marcos Meneghetti

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If you do not mind your portfolio being hosted on webflow.io, you might not need a site plan there. Your Freelancer workspace plan should give you more than enough dev capability for a portfolio.

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Thank you for your answer.
I have another question:
If I copy the code on my freelancer account, do I have the right the put it on a paid hosting in the case I dont want to use webflow hosting?
In this case, the only way to use a paid hosting is using two webflow accounts?

Thank you very much

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Sure, you own the HTML. However this generally only works for very simple sites that don’t need any special Webflow hosting features. Here’s a discussion of some of the Webflow features that are not available when you export.

I don’t know what you’re asking.

You need paid workspace plan to do the HTML export, but only when you’re doing the export. You need a paid site plan if you want to use Webflow hosting. You probably don’t need both.

In either case, it’s a single Webflow user account.

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Thank you very much.
Sorry my english, but it is the answer I wanted to know.

Marcos

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Continuing the discussion from [As a freelance, do i need to pay two web flow?]

I don’t this that’s the case a CMS plan always costs money regardless is if its on a .io domain (only the basics is free on a .io domain)

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Hey Joseph, if you’re running a free starter site in a free starter workspace, you do have limited CMS capability in that setup, and you can publish to your webflow.io subdomain.

Everything there is restricted since it’s a “taster” setup meant to introduce you to Webflow’s features, so the number of CMS items, etc. is reduced from what a CMS plan allows.

What Marcos was indicating in his original post is that he’s using the CMS for his portfolio. He’s looking at exporting now, which has no CMS support at all.

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I wish I had a clearer answer to this when I was starting!

To restate what’s already been stated:

Website Hosting

  • If you are okay with your portfolio on a .webflow.io domain, you can create and publish a limited site utilizing the starter plan.
  • If you want a custom domain for your portfolio, then you need to have a Basic plan or higher.

Workspace Account
On top of that, you may need to choose a workspace account.

  • The Basic workspace plan is designed to let you explore and experiment with Webflow. You could theoretically use this as a freelancer building simple static page websites for one client at a time, but it is limited by design.
  • A Freelancer plan gives you 8 more staging sites with full CMS access, and free guest access on Client sites.

For me/my business:
I have multiple clients that I am working with at a time. I also wanted to use a custom domain AND I wanted to provide the most seamless freelance services to clients. Therefore, I am on a Freelancer plan for my business. PLUS my business’s site has a CMS hosting plan.

I could have saved a little bit by building my business’s site around a Basic hosting plan or even a free hosting plan. But I wanted to get really good at working with dynamic content and I wanted to look professional with a custom domain.

Hope this helps!