Framer Bandwidth Limits Explained: What Happens When You Get Traffic

Framer's bandwidth limits by plan

Every Framer plan comes with a hard bandwidth cap. This is the total amount of data your site can transfer to visitors each month. Once you hit it, your site stops working. Here is the breakdown:

• Free: 1GB/month
• Mini ($5/mo - discontinued): 10GB/month
• Basic ($15/mo): 100GB/month
• Pro ($30/mo): 100GB/month (same as Basic)
• Enterprise: Custom limits

Read that again. The Pro plan at $30/month gives you the exact same bandwidth as the Basic plan at $15/month. You are paying double for features like custom code and advanced CMS, but you get zero additional bandwidth. For a site that is growing, this is the number that matters most.

To put that in perspective: if you run a Google Ads campaign driving 2,000 visitors per day to a landing page, you will burn through 100GB in about 25 days. If your site goes viral on social media or gets picked up by a newsletter, you could hit the cap in a single afternoon. And the Framer pricing page does not make this obvious at all.

What happens when you hit the limit

This is the part that catches people off guard. When your Framer site exceeds its bandwidth allocation, your site does not gracefully degrade. It does not slow down. It shows a bandwidth exceeded message, or in some cases, simply stops loading entirely. Your visitors see an error page instead of your business.

Framer does not offer overage billing. There is no option to pay an extra $5 to keep your site running. There is no "burst" mode. Your site goes down and stays down until the next billing cycle resets your bandwidth counter. For a business that depends on its website for leads or sales, this is a serious problem.

The fact that this post has 50 upvotes tells you everything. Users are not casually curious about bandwidth. They are hitting the wall and desperately looking for a way around it. And the answer from Framer is always the same: upgrade your plan. But when Basic and Pro have the same 100GB cap, there is nowhere to upgrade to except Enterprise, which requires a sales call and a budget most small businesses do not have.

Why Framer sites use so much bandwidth

The bandwidth problem is worse than it looks because Framer sites are inherently heavy. Every page load transfers significantly more data than a comparable static HTML site. Here is why:

• React runtime (~500KB): Every Framer page loads the React JavaScript framework, even for a simple landing page with no interactivity. This is the foundation of Framer's visual editor, but your visitors pay the cost.
• Preloader scripts: Framer injects preloading and hydration scripts that add to the initial payload. These exist to make the editor work, not to make your site fast.
• Font files: Some Framer sites load 100+ woff2 font files because the editor does not aggressively subset or deduplicate fonts. Each unique font weight and style is a separate file download.
• Unoptimized images: While Framer does some image optimization, you have limited control over compression levels, formats, and lazy loading behavior.
• No CDN cache control: You cannot set custom cache headers, meaning browsers re-download assets more often than necessary.

The result: a typical Framer page weighs 1.5-3MB per load. The same design built as static HTML uses 200-400KB per page load. That is 5-10x more efficient. Which means a static site gets 5-10x more page views from the same bandwidth allocation.

This is not a matter of design complexity. A simple hero section with a headline, paragraph, and button that weighs 300KB in static HTML will weigh 1.5MB+ in Framer because of the runtime overhead. You are burning bandwidth on framework code your visitors never see or benefit from. When you export your Framer site to code, that runtime disappears.

The math: when bandwidth becomes expensive

Let us compare what 100GB of bandwidth actually gets you on Framer versus a self-hosted static site. The difference is not marginal. It is the difference between your site going offline at 50,000 page views and comfortably handling half a million.

The numbers are stark. With the same 100GB on Vercel's free tier, a static HTML site serves 5-10x more visitors. And Vercel is just one option. Cloudflare Pages offers unlimited bandwidth for free. Netlify gives you 100GB free. These are not obscure hosting providers. They are the standard platforms that professional developers use every day.

Here is another way to think about it. On Framer's Pro plan, you are paying $30/month for 50,000 page views before your site goes down. On Cloudflare Pages, you are paying $0/month for unlimited page views. The per-visitor cost on Framer is not just higher. It is infinitely higher, because Cloudflare's denominator is zero.

How to eliminate bandwidth limits

If you have already built your site in Framer and you like the design, you do not have to start over. The path to unlimited bandwidth is straightforward:

1. Export your Framer site to static HTML. Use a tool like FramerCloner to convert your Framer site into clean, static HTML/CSS files. No React runtime, no preloader, no unnecessary JavaScript. Just your design as lightweight code.
2. Host on a platform with generous bandwidth. Deploy to Vercel, Netlify, or Cloudflare Pages. All three offer free tiers that dramatically outperform Framer's paid plans on bandwidth. Cloudflare Pages has literally unlimited bandwidth on the free tier.
3. Enable CDN caching. These platforms automatically cache your static files on their global CDN. Repeat visitors and visitors from the same region load your site from cache, which does not count against bandwidth on most platforms.
4. Optimize images and fonts. With full control over your code, you can use modern image formats (WebP, AVIF), subset fonts to only the characters you use, and implement proper lazy loading. This cuts page weight even further.

A static HTML site serving 200KB pages gets 500,000+ page views on Vercel's free tier. On Cloudflare Pages, there is no upper limit. You can run ad campaigns, go viral on Twitter, get featured on Product Hunt, and your site will not blink. That is the difference between hosting on a design tool and hosting on infrastructure built for traffic.