Framer shipped its biggest update in years on June 16, 2026, and the headline feature is agents that live directly on your design canvas, not in a separate chat window bolted onto the side. Framer 3.0 lets an AI agent design pages, write code components, manage your CMS, and audit a site for broken links or accessibility issues, and every change it makes is a real edit to your actual project.
That last part is the distinction worth understanding before anything else. A lot of "AI website builder" tools generate a static mockup you then have to rebuild by hand. Framer's agents work inside the live project: the pages, components, and CMS content they touch are the same ones your site already runs on.
Agents on the canvas
Inside the Framer editor, an agent can generate pages from scratch or from a screenshot, build responsive layouts, apply styling and interactions, create reusable components, write custom code, and manage CMS content. It can also run a site audit and flag styling inconsistencies or accessibility problems you'd otherwise catch during a manual review.
The safety net is a new Branching feature. Every agent change happens on a branch rather than the live site, so you can inspect what it did, undo it, or merge it back into main once you're happy. Nothing an agent touches goes live until you say so.
Connecting external agents
The second half of the release lets you plug in AI coding tools you're probably already using: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, and Antigravity CLI can all connect to a Framer project through the Framer CLI or an MCP tool. Once connected, those agents can read and edit your Framer canvas, components, and CMS data instead of just giving you generic advice in a chat window.
Framer positions this for structured, repetitive project work: CMS bulk updates, localization passes, redirects, and content edits that follow a pattern. It's less useful for the kind of open-ended visual design work the in-canvas agents already handle.
What it costs now
Framer 3.0 came with a pricing shakeup, not just new features. Plans still run from free to a Scale tier, but there's now a separate per-editor seat charge on every paid plan.
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | .framer.app subdomain, Framer branding, 1,000 pages, 10 CMS collections, 5MB uploads |
| Basic | $10/mo (billed annually) | Custom domain, hosting, 50GB bandwidth |
| Pro | $30/mo (billed annually) | Staging environments, multiple locales, advanced analytics |
| Scale | $100/mo (annual only) | Expanded bandwidth and page limits |
On top of whichever plan you pick, every editor seat costs an extra $20 a month. A three-person team on Pro is looking at $30 for the plan plus $60 in seats before touching a single AI credit, since agent usage now runs on its own credits system layered on top. If you're a solo designer that math barely registers; if you're a small agency adding editors, it adds up fast enough to budget for separately.
The honest take
The in-canvas agents are a genuinely different approach from the screenshot-to-mockup tools that came before, and letting Claude Code or Cursor touch your actual CMS through the CLI is useful if you already live in one of those tools daily. The catch is that the AI-credits pricing model is brand new, which means nobody outside Framer has a real sense yet of what a typical agent-heavy month actually costs. Budget conservatively until you've run it against a real project for a billing cycle. If you're comparing site builders on price alone rather than the agent features specifically, it's worth also looking at how [Notion](https://www.questloops.com/tools/notion) handles AI-assisted content work, since the two tools solve different but overlapping problems.
FAQ
**Do I need a paid plan to use Framer's AI agents?** Agent features are tied to the new credits system layered on top of a paid plan; the free plan doesn't include agent access.
**Can external agents like Claude Code publish changes to my live site?** No. External agents work on your canvas in the editor and on a branch. Changes only go live when you publish or merge them yourself.
**Did Framer remove the Scale plan?** No, Scale is still listed at $100/month, annual billing only, with expanded bandwidth and page limits over Pro.
