Help in confirming new pricing for editors

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I’d like to carify – because I feel that I’m missing something. I design a site for a client. I add a hosting plan… Up until now, that client had, as part of their hosting, editing access for:

  • three users when on a CMS plan, and
  • 10 users when on a Business plan.

Some of my clients found this a bit of a limitation, but becaus they are charities or small businesses they worked around it, rather than spending $72/year each to add more people.

Now, from next year, when I hand over a site with a CMS or Business plan it seems to me that no editing access is included at that same price???

I see something about a “limited seat” costing $15 a month (which is 150% more expensive per seat compared to currently adding and editor on top of site plan allowanes). If site plans didn’t have any editing access included any more, there would be:

  • $45/month (3 editors) on top of CMS hosting to achieve the same number of editors (would equate to 195% price increase), or
  • $150/month (10 editors) on top of Business hosting (equates to 385% price increase)

…in order to just arrive at the same as what’s been included in hosting so far. Am I missing something here? That would be an anourmous differnce in cost, like $276 a year for a CMS site with 3 editors now, and $816 in future. For Business sites you’d be looking at $2,268 per year compared to $468 now if you had 10 editors. Surely, that can’t be the case?

Thank you for answers and insights that confirm what really’s happening here.

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We also need clarity on this. Our operating assumption based on poring over the announcements and the pricing page is that a pretty traditional hosting setup would require the following:

  • $39/month Business Site Plan
  • $49/month Growth Workspace
  • $39/month Designer Seat
  • $19/month per content editor (let’s assume 3 minimum) = $57/month or $45/month if paid in full for a year.

$172/month

It seems like some of these (Designer Seat and content editors) could be “toggled” on and off to minimize monthly costs, but that is a management nightmare and 25 years of dev experience tells me it will result in some unpleasant scenarios. E.g.
CEO: “this needs to be fixed urgently!”
Mgr: “We disabled the designer seat!”
CEO: “Well re-enable it!”
Mgr: “Only Bill has authority on the account, and he’s on vacation!”
(scramble scramble email thread from hell, lots of org hours dumped into a black hole of account management)

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Yeah this is very confusing @spirelli and @chronosinteractive, but I think Webflow is not going to be charging you automatically for what used to be the free editor, for up to three users, when it transitions to editor mode. Right now the editor can still be used for free and it is referred as the Legacy Editor. The legacy Editor will get deprecated at the end of 2025, but at that point users will have the option for clients to continue editing for free with something called Client Seat, it is very confusing, however, with this Client Seat, clients will have the ability to continue editing content, with some restrictions, but for free. I hope this helps. I think Webflow should have a live session in Youtube explaining all this new changes in more detail. The great @PixelGeek made a video explaining this changes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDX-vLq08tw

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@spirelli

  • Any sites you have as of mid-2025, using the legacy editor, will get migrated to client seats free of charge. If you have 10 business plan users, you get 10 client seats.
  • After that on new projects, the client-editor feature becomes a freelancer/agency perk. Sites hosted in a freelancer/agency workspace will automatically get 1 or 3 free client seats, depending on the workspace type ( freelancer or agency ). The site plan is no longer relevant, in fact these client seats will work before the hosting plan is added, so clients can help you with content pre-launch. Kinda awesome.
  • By 2026, if you have a new project that needs > 3 clients seats, then yes you’d need to purchase limited seats for those added users.

So, no price increase on existing site plans.
Future site plans ( established 2026+ ) that require a lot of editors would pay more for those additional editors.

@chronosinteractive

You didn’t describe what you need, when it will be deployed, or who is building and hosting the site ( an agency, or you yourself ). From my read of the docs, all of these matter.

So let’s look at the two most common scenarios-

SCENARIO #1 - AGENCY-HOSTED SITE

Let’s assume it’s a business plan level site, deployed 2026, built by an agency, hosted in the agency’s workspace, with 3 editors.

In this situation, the client site owner is paying for the Business Site Plan only. They don’t need to pay for a workspace, designer seats, or the first 3 editors- these are covered by the Agency workspace.

If they need additional client editors, the agency would need to purchase limited seats, configure them for single-site-access, and bill those to the client.

SCENARIO #2 - COMPANY-HOSTED SITE

Let’s assume it’s a business plan level site, deployed 2026, build by a company themselves, hosted in their own workspace, with 3 editors.

In this situation, the client site owner is paying for;

  • Business Site Plan
  • free workspace, they don’t need to pay for this as the site plan gives full designer permissions for that site
  • free designer account, already given by the free workspace, this is editor #1
  • 2 limited seats, for editors #2 and #3

In the future, for new Site Plans established after mid-2025, scenario #2 will pay more for editors. The upshot is that the legacy editor was a Site Plan perk, while the new client seat feature is a Freelancer / Agency Workspace perk.

There are awesome upsides to this in the site build process for Freelancers and Agencies, but it’s a big change to the editor role concept.

I’ve written more detail on this here-

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