Is Webflow Better Than WordPress? Pros & Cons.

Is Webflow better than WordPress?

In my personal opinion, Webflow is not better than WordPress. Quite the contrary. 

Here are the Pros and Cons so you can see for yourself why Webflow is not better than WordPress so you can decide for yourself:

Webflow

WordPress

Pros	Cons	Pros	Cons
Very nice UI (User Interface). A much cleaner and more modern admin UI.	Unless you are building a static site, you will have to use their pricey expensive hosting, since their customization features only work on their hosting platform.	Industry standard. It has a lot of plugins and integrations, which Webflow might not have.	You are responsible for choosing your themes, plugins, hosting and for  security.
Webflow is AMAZING tech, it’s well made and a hint at what the future will hold for web designers.	Website resale value.  If you ever want to sell your website down the road, having a Webflow website will be less valuable than a WordPress website.	WordPress powers over 40% of all websites on the internet.
Part of the “No-Code Movement”.  You don’t need to know any coding to build and maintain a site on Webflow’s platform.  Full control over the visual design without having to write code.	“Proprietary” platform, i.e. closed source.  This means you’re locked-in to using Webflow.  If they make changes you don’t like and if they raise their prices you can’t just easily host elsewhere.	Open Source, host it anywhere and you own everything. With WordPress, you can take your whole site (the styling, templates, plugins, CMS, CMS data etc.) anywhere with you.
No plugins to deal with.	Although you might be able to export the final output, the CMS + editor part that lets you customise won’t be available to you later should you want more customizations.	Very extendible. Has a huge amount of free and premium plugins to do everything you need a website to do.
No real security issues.	Your site is 100% vendor locked into their own CMS.  Exporting the code is going to be a real pain to manage.  A Webflow site is definitely not scalable.	Huge community to provide help and support: Reddit, Quora, WordPress forums, Twitter, StackOverFlow, Stackexchange and Facebook groups.  Plus, there are also thousands of other websites and forums.  It’s much easier to get support for WordPress than for any other CMS.
Hosting is included with their pricing.	Pricing: more expensive than WordPress. Limited to their two plan model.	There are 1000’s of free great looking themes you can tweak.
Webflow runs on AWS servers.	Only basic SEO and ecommerce capabilities.	There are over free 50,000 plugins.
Webflow is much easier to build a polished, awesome website without relying on paid themes than WordPress.	No fully functional self hosting alternatives.	With WordPress you can use on Shared web accounts.  So you can set up a website for roughly $10 a year.
“Collections” are super powerful.	Difficult for people without web design skills to truly master.	Wide range of self hosting options and prices including: Shared, VPS, Cloud and Dedicated Server hosting.
Webflow websites aren’t slowed down by loads of widgets, and plugins.		No real functional shortcomings when it comes to SEO or ecommerce.
Generates static code (except for their CMS), which is faster and more secure.		Usable for both non-designers and non-coders.
Secure, brute force attacks greatly reduced.  Security is much less of an issue than with WordPress.			Websites can be very slow when using the wrong plugins, hosting provider or hosting plan.
Useful client billing and handoff features, good for freelance web developers.			Websites can be insecure with the wrong plugins and settings.
Surprising amount of great educational content about design and freelance web development topics.

However, instead of simply looking at the Pros and Cons and saying that WordPress is better just because it powers over 40% of all websites on the internet today would not do the topic justice. 

In fact, your conclusions based on the Pros and Cons of both Webflow and WordPress may be different. You could, after all, have different priorities in what you want out of a website. 

Is Webflow better than WordPress? Summary.

Sure, in the end, Webflow is a more worthy contender to WordPress than Wix. 

However, being in a vendor locked-in arrangement like with Webflow can mean that although you may be saving some time at the start, at a later stage when you want to move platforms, you’ll have to spend a lot more time and money to eventually move your website elsewhere. 

This is the case with Webflow, but not with WordPress. 

For example, with Webflow if you need to move away from it, you’re going to have to rewrite a lot of code, figure out how to migrate your data and work out how to replicate their proprietary features. 

So much for the “no-code movement”.

Although WordPress does have a learning curve, there’s also certainly a bit of a learning curve to WebFlow as well, especially getting the hang of things like with their “collections”.

There are admittedly some diehard Webflow fans though, who think that using Webflow is an infinitely better experience than using WordPress. Why? 

Simply because you don’t have to worry about plugins, hosting, etc. Webflow just works and that is all they care about.

However, WordPress is better in my opinion since if you ever wanted to pass the website over to a web developer to rebuild it, they can switch to a custom template without purging the Database. 

Plus, if you ever expanded to ecommerce, it’s a pretty simple upgrade as well, either with a developer or without for that matter, thanks to WooCommerce. 

But, if you need much more customization, it’s easy to find a WordPress developer or even someone who simply knows PHP to make them for you at a relatively affordable cost. Consider it an investment on the digital asset that, again, you own.

Besides, WordPress is also much more scalable. 

If you’re concerned about website loading speeds, don’t.

WordPress doesn’t have to be bloated if you use a theme that is cleanly coded, efficient and you use plugins sparingly. Your website’s speed will depend on your choice of hosting more than anything else. 

WordPress can be as simple or as complicated as you like it. 

However, Webflow is good if you don’t want to worry about upgrades, server issues etc. 

WordPress, though, is far better if you’re planning a blog or a website where you will publish often and grow your digital assets. 

In general, Webflow can be a better design tool and probably a good choice if you just need a visually top notch site to stand out with and you don’t mind being locked into their CMS, hosting and prices. 

In addition, if you don’t have any long term plans as far as expansion into ecommerce or eventually selling the website as a digital asset, Webflow might work for you as well.

WordPress is a much better business tool overall though, and the more practical choice if you want to generate organic traffic and build a digital asset for the long term. 

Open source is very important when starting from scratch.

Personally, WordPress works for me because I have a lot of small sites that I’m looking to turn into long term digital assets and because I simply don’t want to be locked into one closed source, fairly expensive proprietary platform that doesn’t justify the cost. 

But mostly, I choose WordPress because I don’t like putting my entire livelihood in one basket. 

Whether that’s hosting, plugins, themes or simply a CMS that I can’t move and host anywhere else. I don’t like putting all my eggs in one basket and neither should you.