Note: If you’re a Webflow customer, you will receive an email with details about how our new plan changes affect your particular account.
Today, we’re announcing changes to our Site and Workspace plans. The goal of this update is to make sure Webflow is meeting the needs of you, your clients, and your business as they grow and change.
We know that plan updates can be a lot to digest, so here’s an overview of what’s changing:
More advanced Webflow capabilities on plans
Access to a usage dashboard for more transparency
Updated plan limits and added flexibility, especially for Business plan customers
We’re committed to continuously looking for ways to improve our pricing and packaging to ensure we are providing long-term scalable solutions for you so please don’t hesitate to reach out should you have any questions
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Updated plan limits and added flexibility? Guys, you’ve just cut the bandwidth down to 25% of what you were previously offering. This is a very drastic move.
Agencies and freelancers are doing the heavy lifting recommending Webflow to their customers who then become your customers. After this stunt we will have to explain even more to people who entrusted us with their websites.
Hi @MaciejMach — thanks for your message. Just sharing some context here: the majority of site plans won’t be impacted by these updates as they’re well within the bandwidth limits. Related, existing plans will maintain their previous limits, so you shouldn’t be affected by this for your existing projects.
Thanks for a quick reply. I really appreciate it.
Keeping old accounts like they were is a great news, but that will last only until the end of the year according to email I got. Is that correct?
It seems like a step backward in terms of bandwidth usage. While others are increasing it, is Webflow reducing it? At the beginning of the year, the Basic plan had 50GB and the CMS plan had 200GB. Today, it’s 10GB and 50GB! And of course, if we exceed that, we have to pay…
With these changes, I was expecting a price reduction after the increase that already occurred last year, or more flexibility in the Basic Plan. Instead, for example, I’m now preparing a site with many images, and I believe my client will be forced to switch to an even more expensive plan because they will exceed the bandwidth limits.
Every time you make changes to the Site plans, you encourage me to stop using Webflow and switch to the competition. It seems to me that you care little about your smaller users, like freelancers, and you’re doing everything to put obstacles in their way.
Hi,
It’s an utterly disappointing announcement that makes me distrust the tool and the company I’ve been recommending to our clients and using for over 6-7 years already. One thing is adjusting the pricing, which you already did to huge impact, another is setting bandwidth add-ons, but decreasing the bandwidth of the current plans is an unacceptable move. On top, it’s not a minor decrease, it’s an almost 150% decrease but with THE SAME PRICING. So we have a worst package, you save space and we pay the same or more. You’re then excusing yourselves with the “surge protection” nonsense and the “almost no site will be hit with this update” but that’s far from the point: we are having a downgrade in service and performance, but still have to pay way above the current market price for a service that has worse features than before. This is not the way to treat your clients and designers.
Hey @jselva! About 96% of paid sites operate within the bounds of the new limits. For the remainder, we still needed to have a process and plan set up for those who do not operate within the bandwidth limits.
Hi, so what about reducing the bandwidth with the price also? And maybe leave us some flexibility options on the Basic and CMS plans instead only on the Business? This could have been a great move.
Will we be considered in the 4% / "out of bounds’ of the limit with our site being hammered by an ongoing Spam Bot / DoS attack?
Webflow support cannot provide the access logs we need to provide to Amazon to attempt to stop the attacks and there is no htacess in Webflow.
The bandwith overview link in the announcement mentioned using robots.txt to control bots, but that is not possible. All bots are free to ignore robots.txt with no repercussions (and many often do).
I don’t think that Webflow “management” understand how many potential clients said NO to Webflow due to their limited bandwidth, and unknown pricing if they will ever go over the limit… yes “unknown”, because no one could guarantee that price for extra bandwidth won’t go up - price for extra bandwidth was already to high for many. Does Webflow management really expect us… agencies/freelancers to build websites for small clients only? Im glad to see that I am not the only one who thinks that this is really a bad move…
Disappointing that the cost of our site has just jumped from $468USD a year to $2,388USD a year. This is a 410% price increase.
More native tooling is needed to understand what is contributing to bandwidth at a page by page level as that is too much to pay to service 15,000 visitors a month.
It’s great that the CMS is finally able to go beyond 10,000 records, this has been requested for years, but setting a new limit of 20,000 and charging double for that does not actually solve the issue. It just kicks the can down the road. We need a way to affordably scale to 100K records.
Judging from the popularity of this forum post, I am skeptical about the 96% data. Moreover, anyone who understands technology knows that bandwidth is almost free if you use a CDN.
I’m paying for something on Webflow that hardly incurs any cost.
Will we one day be charged for the number of words on a website?
The reduction of bandwidth limits is simply crazy. Webflow is forgetting what kind of product it is. Due to numerous limitations and the lack of features, it is not a tool for creating large, content-based websites or portals. Without programming knowledge, you can’t build a hotel website here (no booking/room availability system) or a car rental service and other such websites.
For this reason, Webflow is ideal for building smaller, beautiful websites or large, equally beautiful sites - but still brochure sites with very basic, simple functionalities. We have to compensate for the lack of functionalities on the platform by using heavy assets and interactions. This makes Webflow sites beautiful and sellable. By creating new limits, you have shot both us and yourselves in the foot. Congratulations to the management
I won’t be renewing my ecommerce with Webflow - I’ll be moving to something with genuine broad ecommerce functionality that doesn’t look to exploit its users through - as best as I can describe it - shoddy business practices.
— thanks for your message. Just sharing some context here: the majority of site plans won’t be impacted by these updates as they’re well within the bandwidth limits. Related, existing plans will maintain their previous limits, so you shouldn’t be affected by this for your existing projects.
