Dear Webflow,
I’ve been using webflow for over two years across multiple accounts. With success in both my previous employment and now in a two man company. I’ve literally taken joy in training employees, introducing it to my now business partner and watching the product grow into a fantastic tool. We started our two man company 3 months ago we utilise 1 team account and 1 pro account.
Two months ago we decided to move away from webflow hosting to a static AWS reseller. And it’s pretty clear that other webflow users may wake up to these alternatives soon.
We get it, webflow needs to make money for further development & investors*. But this is dangerous. Static hosting with great deployment tools are trending. The run of the mill endurance group provider + wordpress conversion is not the only alternative anymore.
Let’s say webflow begins looking at their product as a tool for designers and agencies. Shifts to bandwidth based hosting rates. Dumps pay walled features, enables full whitelabeling, removes editor limits, includes all standard features, site proection and delivers full CMS export. Here is how I imagine the pricing model would work.
Trial Account - 7 Days Use
Starter Account - $19 Per Month
Is just getting into webflow
- Includes 20GB Bandwidth
- All Webflow features
- Unlimited Asset Storage
- Unlimited Form Deliveries
- Advanced Dashboard- Unavailable
Freelancer Account - $79 Per Month
Works alone most of the time and desires an easy workflow both during and after projects. Works mainly with smaller local companies and occasionally hits big.
- Includes 250GB Bandwidth +Upgradeable
- All Webflow features
- Unlimited Asset Storage
- Unlimited Form Deliveries
- Advanced Dashboard - Monitor Usage, In depth Usage Analysis, Report Generation
Agency Account -$150 Per Month (+$50 Per Additional User)
The lead designer runs the agency account. They add additional users as they grow. Their client-base is medium to larger businesses.
- Account holder - Administrator Panel & Team Panel
- Includes 1TB Bandwidth +Upgradeable
- Unlimited Asset Storage
- Unlimited Form Deliveries
- Advanced Dashboard- Monitor Usage, In depth Usage Analysis, Report Generation
The result:
A fully functional freelance / agency tool which offers analytics and traffic analysis that works in synergy with a hosted site with webflow. A great incentive to continue hosting with webflow once the included bandwidth is exceeded. The subscription literally grows with the success of the freelancer / agency. The additional benefit for the user that they don’t waste features, bandwidth, collections on the pay per site hosting model we have today.
We’re all aware that Webflow doesn’t quite know how to price themselves anymore. Something like could really shake up the designer industry.
My two cents.
The example prices above. I would pay even more if it were this.