Webflow alternative for agencies
Webflow is strong if you want to design every detail by hand. Cleverpage is built for agencies that build with their own AI agent and whose clients maintain the website for years without touching the design. Here you can see where the differences lie and which system fits when.
Point by point
Both systems put maintainable websites online. The difference is how you build and who may change what later.
| Topic | Webflow | Cleverpage |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation | Visual design tool with its own CMS and hosting, run by a US company. | Platform for client websites, delivered as finished HTML. Server, domain and certificate are part of it. |
| Building | By hand in the visual designer, element by element with classes and the box model. | Your AI agent, such as Claude Code, Cursor or Codex, connects to Cleverpage and builds the design system, components and pages there from your draft. Cleverpage checks every step. |
| Client editing | After signing in to Webflow's editor, on the page and in CMS items. | In the Cleverpage editor: after signing in, the client sees every page as it looks on the website and edits texts and images in it, only in the fields you open up per component. The design stays untouched. |
| Design system | Variables and classes maintained in the designer. Anyone with designer access can change everything. | Colours, fonts and spacing live in one place, and Cleverpage makes sure every component sticks to them. |
| Approval | Staging via the webflow.io address, more elaborate approval workflows mostly in the larger plans. | Save, approve to a protected preview, publish. In every plan, and every version is kept. |
| Costs | A site plan per website, plus workspace seats for the team, billed in US dollars. | €6.90 per website and month, €3.45 for a mini website. Hosting included, you only pay once it is live. |
| Data | Stored and delivered via Webflow's infrastructure. | Servers in Germany, delivered via Cloudflare's CDN. |
| Export | Code export of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, CMS content separately as CSV. | Export as a finished site in HTML and as complete source code, any time. |
To be fair
Webflow is a mature tool for designers who want to set every detail themselves. For some things, it is stronger.
Switching
You move an existing Webflow site with your AI agent: you give it the address or the code export and tell it what you want.
Anything else? Write to us at hello@cleverpage.ai.
Yes, if you would rather build with your own AI agent than by hand in the designer. As with Webflow, clients maintain their content themselves; in Cleverpage you decide per component what they may change. If you want to design every detail with a mouse or build lots of animations, Webflow is a good fit.
How you build. In Webflow you place every element by hand in the designer. In Cleverpage your own AI agent builds the website from your draft, and Cleverpage makes sure clients later change content only, not the design.
No. Websites are built by your own AI agent, such as Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. It connects to your Cleverpage account and works there like a developer, and Cleverpage checks every change against the design system. You only use AI inside Cleverpage if you want to, for example for images, videos or translations.
Yes. You give your AI agent the website's address or the code export and tell it to rebuild it in Cleverpage. It rebuilds the pages, with the current design or a new one. Old addresses redirect to the new ones.
Yes. As with Webflow, they sign in and edit content in a view of their pages. The difference: in Cleverpage you decide per component what may be changed, and every change only goes live after approval.
Building, reviewing and approving costs nothing. You only pay once the website is live on its domain: €6.90 a month, €3.45 for a mini website.
Building, testing and approving cost nothing. You pay per website, only once it goes live.
