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Framer vs Super

An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.

The short answer

Editorial assessment

Super compared with Framer

Framer is a real design tool with layout control, a CMS, and native A/B testing, and it produces a far better-looking result at several times the price and effort. Super produces something acceptable in an afternoon from content that already exists. Take Framer when the website is a designed artifact; take Super when it is documentation that needs to be online and current.

Choose Framer if

Design-led startups and small marketing teams that want a genuinely custom-looking marketing site or landing page set, have someone comfortable with a design canvas, and would rather ship and iterate themselves than queue work behind an engineering sprint.

Choose Super if

Teams and creators who already run on Notion and want their docs, help center, changelog, careers page, or company wiki published fast on a real domain, without maintaining a second copy of the content in a website tool.

Side by side

13 attributes
AttributeFramerSuper
CategoryLanding PagesLanding Pages
Starting price$10/mo (Basic, per site) (free plan available)$0 for a free super.site subdomain, then $16 per month or $144 per year per site (Personal) (free plan available)
Pricing modelPer-site subscription (each site in a workspace carries its own plan) plus separately billed editor seats, with monthly AI credit allotments per tier and add-ons for bandwidth, pages, and CMS capacity.Per-site subscription rather than per account, with analytics and team members billed as separate line items.
Free plan1 GB bandwidth, 30 pages, 1,000 CMS items, 500 AI credits to try, published on a framer.website subdomain with Framer branding; no custom domain.A free site on a super.site subdomain with Super branding, theme customization, CDN hosting, and customer support, but no custom domain and no custom code.
Free trialNoNo fixed-length trial; the free site plan serves as the evaluation path with no credit card required
Best forDesign-led startups and small marketing teams that want a genuinely custom-looking marketing site or landing page set, have someone comfortable with a design canvas, and would rather ship and iterate themselves than queue work behind an engineering sprint.Teams and creators who already run on Notion and want their docs, help center, changelog, careers page, or company wiki published fast on a real domain, without maintaining a second copy of the content in a website tool.
Setup timeA template-based site can be live on a custom domain the same day. A custom-designed marketing site is typically one to three weeks of design work, which is the real cost and has nothing to do with the tool's setup.Under an hour for a first site, and often under twenty minutes. Connect the Notion page, pick a theme, point the domain, and the site is live; there is no content entry step because the content already exists.
Learning curveLow for designers already fluent in Figma; moderate to steep for marketers who have only used section-based builders, because stacks, breakpoints, and components require a mental model those tools hide.Effectively zero for the authoring workflow, since it is just Notion. The only thing to learn is the theme builder and the relationship between Notion page structure and site URLs, which takes an afternoon.
PlatformsWeb app, macOS and Windows desktop apps, Published sites served from Framer's CDNBrowser-based configuration, Super-hosted publishing on a CDN with custom domains and automatic SSL, Notion as the content source
ComplianceGDPR-aligned processes, Enterprise-grade security controls on the Enterprise tier (specifics quoted, not published)GDPR handling for European traffic
Founded20152020
HeadquartersAmsterdam, Netherlands (with teams in San Francisco, New York, and Barcelona)Operating as Super Publishing Co., distributed
OwnershipVenture-backed, privately heldIndependent and privately held, with no disclosed outside funding

Strengths and limitations

Framer

Strengths

  • The best design ceiling of any no-code builder at this price; teams that care how a page looks are not fighting the tool to get there.
  • Animation and interaction quality is a genuine differentiator, inherited from Framer's years as a prototyping tool rather than bolted on.
  • Bandwidth-based pricing rather than visitor-based pricing means a page that suddenly gets traffic does not trigger a plan jump or a bill shock the way conversion-platform metering does.
  • The full stack is in one product: CMS, localization, forms, analytics, A/B testing, staging, and hosting, with no plugin ecosystem to maintain.

Limitations

  • Per-site pricing plus $20 editor seats makes multi-site or multi-collaborator setups much more expensive than the $10 headline implies.
  • CMS ceilings (1,000 items on Basic, 2,500 on Pro before add-ons) rule Framer out for real publishing operations.
  • No export to self-hosting: the site lives on Framer's infrastructure permanently, and leaving means rebuilding.
  • The learning curve is real for non-designers. A marketer used to section-based builders will be slower in Framer for the first week, not faster.

Super

Strengths

  • Eliminates the second source of truth entirely: content lives in Notion, the site reflects it, and nobody ever copies anything.
  • Meaningfully faster than Notion's own public pages, which are slow and client-rendered; Super serves crawlable HTML from a CDN.
  • Fixes the SEO problem that Notion's public sharing creates, with proper markup, automatic social sharing cards, sitemaps, and redirects on the Pro tier.
  • Zero learning curve for anyone who already uses Notion, because the authoring experience does not change at all.

Limitations

  • Per-site pricing is the defining commercial weakness. Two sites is $288 a year on Personal, before analytics and team seats, against $19 a year for ten sites on Carrd.
  • Total dependence on Notion. If Notion changes its API, its pricing, or its public sharing behavior, Super's product is affected directly and there is nothing Super can do about it.
  • No native forms, no ecommerce, no memberships; all of that requires third-party embeds, which also means those visitors leave your analytics picture.
  • No A/B testing, no conversion analytics, and no dynamic text replacement, so it has nothing to offer a performance marketer.

Pricing compared

Framer

Per-site subscription (each site in a workspace carries its own plan) plus separately billed editor seats, with monthly AI credit allotments per tier and add-ons for bandwidth, pages, and CMS capacity.

  • Free$0
  • Basic$10
  • Pro$30
  • EnterpriseCustom

Framer is the best capability-per-dollar buy in this group for a design-capable team. $10 a month for a custom domain, 150 pages, 50 GB of bandwidth, and no visitor metering is an order of magnitude cheaper than any conversion-optimization platform at the same traffic, and the design ceiling is far higher than Carrd or Umso can reach. The cost model punishes two things specifically: many sites, because plans are per site, and many collaborators, because seats are $20 each. Price a realistic team before comparing the headline number to anything else.

Super

Per-site subscription rather than per account, with analytics and team members billed as separate line items.

  • Free Site$0
  • Personal Site$16 per month, or $144 per year
  • Pro Site$28 per month, or $252 per year
  • Custom SolutionsFrom around $50 plus modification fees

Judged as a website builder, $144 a year for one site is poor value against Carrd's $19 for ten. Judged correctly, as a publishing layer for content you are already maintaining in Notion, it is reasonable: you are paying to eliminate a second source of truth, and the labour saved by never re-entering content in a website tool is worth more than the subscription for most teams. The costs to watch are the per-site structure, the separate analytics bill that scales with traffic, and the per-member charge, all of which mean the real annual figure for a team running two sites with analytics is several hundred dollars rather than $144. Compare it to the cost of a person keeping two copies of a help center in sync, not to the cost of a page builder.

Editorial verdict on each

Framer

Innovation

Framer is the strongest all-round pick in this category for a startup that has anyone with design taste on the team. It replaced a genuinely hard problem (custom-looking, fast, CMS-backed marketing sites without engineers) with a $10 a month site plan, and the animation and layout quality are better than anything else at the price. Two caveats matter before you commit: the per-site plans plus $20 editor seats mean a real team pays several times the headline number, and there is no export, so the site lives on Framer's infrastructure for as long as it lives. If those are acceptable, it is the default choice; if you need campaign-page volume, visitor-level optimization, or CRM-native testing, buy a conversion platform instead.

Read the full Framer profile

Super

Super is a narrow product that does its one job better than anything else. If your team already writes in Notion, publishing that content as a fast, branded, crawlable website with no second source of truth is a genuine operational win, and the setup takes an afternoon. Documentation sites, help centers, handbooks, changelogs, and careers pages are exactly where it shines, and the Pro tier's search and redirects make large content sites practical. The reservations are commercial rather than technical: pricing is per site, analytics and team seats are separate bills, and you still need Notion underneath, so a team running two sites with analytics is looking at several hundred dollars a year rather than $144. And there are no forms, no store, and no testing, so this cannot be your marketing site. Buy it as a publishing layer alongside a proper site builder, not instead of one. The best thing about it is the exit: because the content never leaves Notion, leaving Super costs you a theme and nothing else.

Read the full Super profile

Framer profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Super last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.