Framer vs Spline
Both are design tools. Here is what separates them.
What Framer is
Framer is a website builder in which the design canvas and the live site are the same thing. Pages and interactions are laid out visually, and the result is published straight from the tool, so there is no separate handoff step where a design is rebuilt in code. A content management system sits behind the canvas for structuring and editing content, which keeps repeated content separate from the layout that presents it. Content can be edited without opening the design files, which matters once a site is live and being updated by someone other than its designer. Forms and analytics collect data from visitors, and there are SEO controls aimed at search visibility. AI assistive agents can help build a project inside the editor. Collaboration is included from the free plan, which allows up to three editors; further editors cost $20 per month each on top of the plan. Some capabilities are add-ons rather than plan features. Localisation translates and adapts a site into other languages, and A/B testing is bought the same way. Certain features are priced by usage, and the free plan includes 500 credits for trying them before committing. Publishing is a single step from the editor: a site is set up, designed on the canvas, then launched from the same place. Because pricing scales with the projects a site owner runs, bandwidth allowances and add-ons account for much of the difference between plans. All prices are monthly. Framer is free to start. Basic costs $10 a month and includes 50 GB of bandwidth. Pro costs $30 a month and doubles that to 100 GB. Custom domains are available across plans. Enterprise pricing is bespoke and adds enterprise-grade security and an uptime guarantee, with the emphasis on scaling to larger teams. An API is available for integrations, and Framer connects to external tools. The company publishes guidance on accessibility, aimed at making sites usable by everyone, and runs a community space where people share work. Framer states that it protects sites and the data on them, with the strongest security controls reserved for the Enterprise plan.
What Spline is
Spline is a design tool for building 3D scenes in a browser and publishing them to the web. It ships two editors, a 3D editor and a 2D editor called Hana. The two share the same interactivity model and the same publishing pipeline, so they are two halves of one tool rather than separate products. Scenes render using WebGPU and fall back to WebGL. There is also a desktop app for macOS and Windows that supports tabs, offline-friendly editing, MCP and system fonts. The 3D editor goes past modelling into behaviour. It includes physics simulation, a particle system and first-person and third-person game controls, which makes it possible to build a scene a visitor can move around in. Imports cover OBJ, FBX with animation and rigs, STL, GLTF, GLB and 3D Gaussian Splats. Exports cover GLTF, GLB, STL, USDZ, OBJ and Spline's own file format, with stills as PNG or JPG and motion as WebM, MP4 or an image sequence. Hana is the 2D editor, with vector networks, booleans, gradients, glass and 3D projection effects, and it publishes to Webflow, Framer, Wix Studio, HTML and JS, Notion and Shopify. On the 3D side, Spline exports code for React projects and offers integrations for Webflow, Framer, Wix Studio, Next.js, Swift and Kotlin. Which of those outputs are actually available depends on the plan. The Free plan costs nothing and includes 2,000 AI credits a month, but web exports carry a Spline watermark. Hobby, at 12 USD per seat per month billed yearly or 15 USD billed monthly, removes the watermark and raises the allowance to 3,000 credits. Pro costs 25 USD per seat per month billed yearly or 30 USD monthly, and is the first plan that can export to Apple and Android apps and to USDZ and STL files. Max costs 60 USD per seat per month billed yearly or 70 USD monthly, includes 10,000 credits, caps video assets at 100 MB, and is where self-hosted export, code export and file version history become available. SAML single sign-on and centralised billing are reserved for the Enterprise plan, which is priced individually and billed annually.
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