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Framer's pricing page has always been a bit of a puzzle. You've got four main tiers, annual vs monthly billing (monthly runs about 33% more), per-editor charges on top, optional add-ons, and regional pricing that varies depending on where you're based. None of that is complicated on its own, but stacked together it means a lot of people either pick the wrong plan or pay more than they need to.

I built this cost calculator. You answer questions about your setup (starting with whether you need a custom domain) and it recommends the cheapest Framer plan that actually covers your needs, then shows you your real pre-tax monthly cost. It accounts for plan tier, billing frequency, additional editors, add-and ons

It is not a "how much does it cost to build a website" calculator. It is specifically: which plan do I need and what will I pay per month.

It's free. No email required.

Check it out here

Happy to hear if anything is off or if there are edge cases the calculator doesn't cover. Built it this week so it's fresh.

I spent hours going through every Framer Marketplace listing tagged AI, agency, or automation, plus every creator page ranking for this keyword, plus the top listicles on the SERP.

Before that here are the 9 templates

• KYMA
• Operator
• Machina
• AgentOS
• Source
• Effica
• Spartan-AI
• Wiltord
• Sanjaya

A few things I found that might save you time:

Free options that are actually AI-shaped on the Marketplace = 2. Machina (ours, single-page) and AgentOS (by Wize Templates, multi-page). The rest of the "free AI agency template" tier is repurposed SaaS with copy swapped. If you're at the 0-case-study stage and want something live this week, those two are the honest picks.

The thing that separates AI agency templates from generic agency templates isn't visual style. It's structural: a manual-vs-AI comparison table on the homepage, integration logos for LLMs and embedding providers, a case-study CMS with industry tagging, and a contact flow shaped for "book an audit" rather than "sign up free."

I ranked our own template #2. KYMA ($129+, by Joseph Alexander) earned #1 because it ships an interactive ROI calculator that no other template on this slate has. For agencies whose sales cycle starts with a payback-period question, that single feature matters. Operator is #2 because it covers the rest of the AI agency sales motion more thoroughly than anything else on the list, but "more thoroughly on most dimensions" doesn't outweigh a unique advantage on one meaningful one.

I also built a 7-column comparison matrix (case-study CMS, pricing-page module, integration logos, audit-booking CTA, ROI calculator, page count, single vs multi-page) for all 9 templates. Every cell was verified by clicking through each demo on the day I wrote this.

Full piece here if useful: https://www.oma-kase.com/blog/best-ai-automation-agency-framer-templates

Happy to answer questions about any of the entries or the comparison methodology. If you're an AAA grad evaluating which template to start with, the "Which AI agency are you?" section at the top of the piece has persona routing that might shortcut the decision.

i do ops and growth at omakase we ship Framer templates and components so i end up testing every new Framer ai feature on our own builds. been doing this for months and only two of them are actually pulling weight

Workshop and the Framer MCP plugin. different jobs both worth installing if your work needs them

Workshop is for complex components. pricing calculators animated charts interactive comparison stuff anything that would normally be a custom react job. the thing nobody talks about is that the win is not really the ai code generation. its that you never leave Framer. describe what you want it builds it you iterate in the same panel until it lands. that loop is the actual product

three model upgrades in under a year now on Claude 4.5 since september. works on all code components in your project not just Workshop generated ones. marketplace says 161k users

Framer MCP plugin is the one nobody is writing about and i think thats a mistake. we use it for the opposite job Workshop solves. not building new stuff but auditing and managing what already exists

mostly cms work and technical seo audits on our own site. running an audit on a Framer project with a bunch of cms entries inside the editor takes forever. MCP turns it into a query you run from Cursor or Claude Desktop. saves hours every time

if you live entirely inside the Framer editor and never touch Cursor or Claude Desktop this is not for you. if you do cms or seo work at any scale it changes the math

quick takes on the rest

Wireframer is overpromised by the name. its a structure first wireframing tool not a website generator. good for the first 30 minutes of a build not the last six hours

AI Translate is solid. gpt 4o by default 4o mini when ai style is on. more than 100 languages. catch is 20 dollars per locale per month on top of your base plan and no real translation approval flow which matters if you ship in a bunch of languages

Auto Rename option R is small but actually useful on heavy projects

ai cms is not a real Framer feature its a marketing label. ai image generation is third party plugins not first party

also the new framer.com/llm beta from May 8 lets you connect your own llm and manage the canvas. different class from Workshop and MCP. together they all signal where Framer is going your llm Framer's canvas. worth watching. I don't have access yet

anyone else here running MCP for audit or seo work. would love to hear what workflows you have built around it. theres almost zero public coverage of this stuff