The Webflow alternative
for when nobody is drawing it
Webflow is where a designer builds the site box by box. Here a team draws the product first, then builds it.
Webflow’s plans, Cloud and AI read on webflow.com, 17 September 2026.
Webflow’s plan is the layout.
Ours is the page, with its words.
In the Designer you build the page from boxes. A board says what the page is for before a box exists.
The plan is a tree of boxes
Which slot is open, who owns it, what the reminder says: none of that is in the tree.
The plan is the page, drawn
Book a slot
ConfirmOpen on Thursday
A patient picks a slot before they make an account, never after.
Every field and its words, agreed before Anouk designs it. An imaginary clinic.
Cloud hosts the app you wrote.
Devi writes it.
Webflow Cloud is real: Next.js or Astro, from a repo or the CLI, with SQLite. It starts where the code already exists.
Webflow, for the deploy
A developer writes the app, connects GitHub, and Cloud runs it next to the site. DevLink carries the site’s components across.
The seven, for the app itself
Nadia draws every page and the data behind it. Anouk designs it. Devi writes it and puts it on a live URL. We do not meter the runs.
Every Webflow fact here
was read off Webflow
Read on their own site, and dated.
webflow.com/pricing
Starter free on webflow.io. Basic $15 and Premium $25 a month billed yearly, per site. Team $2,500 a month on an annual contract. MCP server on every plan.
webflow.com/cloud
Deploy Next.js and Astro full-stack apps from a GitHub repo or the CLI, with SQLite storage. DevLink reuses your site’s components in the app.
webflow.com/ai
An AI site builder, plus copy, code components and page edits from a prompt. 200 AI credits on the free Workspace.
Every seat on a product team,
and you are in all of them.
Seven specialists. You direct all of them. Nadia and Devi are on every project.
Who this is for
Primary persona: Maria and Tom. Two people sharing one pipeline at a twelve-person company. Maria closes, Tom follows up. Neither has ever opened a CRM they liked.
What they are actually buying
- One list both of them trust, instead of two spreadsheets
- Knowing what to do next without a standup to decide it
- Something that survives one of them being on leave
Pain to mirror in the copy
- “Every CRM is built for a sales team of nine”
- Data entry that costs more than the deal is worth
- Reports nobody on a two-person team reads
Competitive frame
Not competing with Pipedrive on features. Competing on the half hour a week it takes to keep it true. The wedge is two people, one list, not “also works for small teams”.
Objections to answer before the fold
- “We already have a spreadsheet” → show the two-column import
- “What happens when we hire a third?” → seats, not tiers
Pipeline
New dealSorted by last touched. Nothing here is a stage nobody uses.
Visual direction for Anouk
- Mode: light, paper-first. This gets read at a desk, not on a phone
- Accent: one colour, used for state and nothing else
- Type: one humanist sans. Numbers tabular, so columns line up
- Density: eight deals on screen without scrolling
Reference
- Linear’s list density, Stripe’s number formatting
- Nothing that needs a second click to read a deal
Open questions before build
- Does a deal belong to a person or to the team?
- Is “won” a stage or a date?
- Do we show currency on every row, or once in the header?
Billing
Invoices
Plan table and invoice list stay two boards, not one.
keep them apart
Four screens to start: Pipeline, Deal detail, Pricing page, Schema. I have put the words on them, so read them before Devi sees any of it.
added 4 boardsBilling wants a plan table and an invoice list, so that is two boards, not one. Drawing both.
added Billing, InvoicesNadiaincluded
Jonah
Deviincluded
Theo
Anouk
Rosa
KitWebflow against
HuntingHydra.
Their column comes from their own site.
| Webflow | HuntingHydra | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A visual website builder | A product team on a canvas |
| What the plan is | The layout tree you build | Boards on a canvas |
| Who designs it | You, in the Designer | Anouk, three directions |
| Who writes the app | Your developer, then Cloud hosts it | Devi |
| App stack | Next.js or Astro on Cloud | Next.js and Postgres |
| Free tier | Yes, on webflow.io | Three days free, every agent on |
| MCP | A server, on every plan | A server, on the $20 plan |
| Content | The CMS, 50 to 20,000 items | Postgres, schema drawn first |
| Code export | HTML and CSS, no CMS content | The whole repo |
| Teams | Team from $2,500 a month | One seat runs all seven |
| A badge on the free plan | Made in Webflow | Your name on it, from day one |
Where Webflow fits,
and where we take over
The honest split, and our answer to each.
You can start free
Two pages on webflow.io, 50 CMS items, an MCP server. Three days here, every agent on.
It is a real Designer
If you design the site yourself, box by box, keep the Designer. Here the designing is done for you, three directions at a time.
MCP on the free plan
Claude and Cursor can drive Webflow from day one. Ours comes with the $20 plan and runs on your own model.
Cloud hosts your Next.js app
From a GitHub repo or the CLI, with SQLite. If the app is already written, that is a fine place to put it.
Governance
Team brings publishing workflows, an activity log and priority support. One seat here directs seven specialists.
Still not sure?
Three days free, every agent on. Draw the boards, watch the build, then decide.
What people ask
before they switch.
What is the best Webflow alternative?
If you design the site yourself, Webflow. If nobody is drawing it and what you need is an app, a team that plans it as boards, designs it, and builds it.
Is Webflow free?
Starter is free on a webflow.io domain with two pages. Basic is $15 a month billed yearly. Checked 17 September 2026.
Can Webflow build an app?
Webflow Cloud deploys a Next.js or Astro app your developer wrote, with SQLite. Webflow AI generates a site and React components. Nobody there plans the app first.
Is HuntingHydra a website builder?
No. It plans a product as boards, designs it, then builds it as a Next.js app with Postgres, accounts and a live URL. The repo is yours.
What does HuntingHydra cost?
Three days free, then $20 a month on the model you already pay for. We do not meter the runs.
Webflow builds the site by hand.
This draws the product, then builds it.
Three days free.