Webflow Export: What You Get and What Stays Behind

Webflow lets you export your site's pages, styles, scripts and images as a ZIP file, but only on a paid Workspace plan, not on a Site plan alone, and the ZIP leaves out your CMS content (the blog posts and other collections), and on the exported site your forms stop sending, site search stops working and password-protected pages are open to anyone. As of November 2026, that is what Webflow's own help page says. Your blog posts can be exported on their own as spreadsheet-style CSV files. So you can take the look of the site with you, plus a copy of the words, and rebuild the parts that make it work. Cancelling a paid Site plan, which Webflow also calls downgrading to the free Starter Site plan, unpublishes the live site, so export first, move the site, and cancel last.

Which plan do you need to export?

Not a Site plan alone. Webflow says "Code export is only available on Workspace plans," and its help page describes export on paid Workspace plans. Site plans do not include it. A Site plan is what you pay for each website, so it is a different thing from the paid Workspace plan that export needs. Starter is a Site plan, so it does not include code export either. Webflow's pricing page lists Core as the cheapest Workspace plan with code export, at US$19 a month billed yearly as of November 2026. The free Starter Workspace plan does not include it.

What is in the ZIP

Webflow says the export holds the HTML pages, the styles, the scripts and the images, and that you can host the files anywhere you like with no credit to Webflow. You do not need a Webflow plan for the exported files to run on your own server. The pages for your CMS collections are in there too, as empty templates.

You cannot pick parts of the site to export. And Webflow warns that editing the exported files by hand may break some Webflow components.

What stays behind

All of this comes from the same export help page. Forms get their own Webflow page, which says you need to adjust your form settings to connect to a third-party form service, meaning an outside company that receives the form messages (forms on exported sites). Messages people already sent through the form can be exported separately.

Exporting your blog posts from Webflow

Because the code export skips the CMS, your posts need their own export. Webflow lets you export any CMS collection as a CSV file, including archived items when you export the whole collection. A CSV is a plain table that opens in Excel or Google Sheets, one row per post. Webflow describes it as useful for "moving them to another platform" (importing and exporting CMS content).

Know what the file holds before you rely on it:

• The text of each post comes out as HTML, the code a browser reads, so you will see tags like paragraph and heading markers around your words.
• Images and files come out as links to files Webflow hosts, not as the image files themselves.
• Those links point back to your Webflow site. Webflow says that if you delete the site, the links break, including images inside blog posts.
• Links between collections, such as a post's author, come out as plain text.
• The CSV only holds the language you are viewing.

So download your images yourself before you delete the site. Webflow's own advice is that unless you are moving to another Webflow site, keep the original site as a backup or download your images and files manually.

What cancelling does to the live site

Webflow says cancelling a paid Site plan, which it also calls downgrading to the free Starter Site plan, removes your custom domain and unpublishes the site from both your domain and its free webflow.io address, at the end of the billing period (cancelling a Site plan). You can also choose to cancel immediately, and that unpublishes it right away. Webflow also says purchases are nonrefundable.

So move first and cancel after the new site is live. Paid features stay until the end of the period you already paid for.

What changes day to day after the move

On Webflow you build in the Designer and publish from a menu. Webflow gives every site a free webflow.io address you can publish to first, and the publish menu lets you pick the staging address, your live domain, or both. It also keeps automatic backups you can preview and restore. Webflow's help page says publishing pushes changes to the web instantly.

On a SiteFree site the routine is different:

That is how a professional developer sets up a site, and you get it without running any of it. The cost is plain. To change things by asking an assistant, you need an AI assistant plan that you subscribe to yourself, such as Claude Pro at US$20 a month, which you can stop between edits, and a free GitHub account. After you say yes, the live site updates a few minutes later. Hosting stays free. Any web developer can also edit the site files.

Will Google still find you?

A code export gives you pages, but the addresses are yours to look after. If a page moves, an old link needs to point to its new home, or visitors and search engines hit an error. When SiteFree moves a site, every old address is redirected to its new page, so search results, bookmarks and links keep working. Nobody can promise where a page will rank afterwards.

Your domain

Webflow says cancelling removes your custom domains from the site, so before you cancel, check where your domain is registered, which means the company you bought the name from. After you approve the preview, you make one change there, and we tell you what it is. Email keeps arriving, because email settings are checked before anything switches. For the step by step on a real move, see How to Move a Webflow Site to Free Hosting. If the cost is what sent you looking, A Website With No Monthly Fees covers what it takes.

If you would rather not do it yourself

SiteFree sells this move. We are a Montreal business, our prices are in Canadian dollars, and we run it as a Canadian migration service. Webflow support is in beta. We rebuild your site to match its design closely, move every page and blog post, keep your contact forms working, host it free in your own Cloudflare account, keep the files in your own GitHub account, and charge once with no monthly fee. The Small tier is $99 CAD for up to 5 pages plus one blog or other section, and the Large tier is $199 CAD for up to 100 pages. Those are the prices for the first 20 sites, then $360 and $720. A shop or a member area gets a fixed quote.

Your private preview is ready within two business days of payment, nothing switches over until you approve it, and you get a full refund any time before then. The old site stays live until you do. You can check your site and see your price first. Cloudflare serves the files from the location closest to each visitor, so SiteFree makes no promise about which country they come from.