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Framer locks you into their hosting. So I built a Framer Export Tool.

Framer is one of the best visual website builders out there. But there's a catch nobody talks about enough: you never actually own your site's code and design. Their help center says it plainly: "Framer does not offer HTML exporting functionality for self-hosting."

You design the site. You pay $10–$100/month per site to host it. But you can't export Framer as HTML/CSS, hand it to a client, move it to a faster CDN, or even make a proper backup. Want to run your Framer site without Framer hosting? Or host your Framer site on a custom domain without their $10–$100/month fee? Officially, you can't.

That bothered me. So I built PullPage — a Framer export tool at https://pull.page.

How it works: Paste any published Framer URL. PullPage converts it to a Framer static site — a full HTML/CSS/JS export with all assets included (only in paid plans). Download the ZIP or use GitHub Sync to publish your Framer project to GitHub Pages, Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, or your own server in seconds. No Framer badge, no Framer bill, no lock-in. Framer alternative hosting has never been this straightforward.

What makes PullPage different from other scrapers is that the export engine was built exclusively for Framer sites.

Framer sites aren't static HTML. They rely on dynamic backend services for server-side pre-rendering, live image resizing, and font subsetting to deliver their performance. That's exactly what makes their Lighthouse scores so good. And it's exactly why they say exporting is impossible.

A general-purpose scraper doesn't know any of this. It saves what the browser sees and calls it done. What you get is a broken snapshot: fonts loading from Framer's CDN, images still hitting Framer's resize servers, animations that freeze without the Framer runtime, and CMS pages that were never crawled in the first place.

PullPage's export engine was built to understand this architecture specifically. We reconstruct the pre-rendered output, bundle subsetted fonts and locally optimized images, and handle Framer Motion and CMS structures as first-class concerns rather than afterthoughts. The result is a clean static site, not a screenshot of one.

That's why the most common thing users tell us is: "I tried other tools, but PullPage is the only one that actually exported the site correctly."

For me, a clean export is everything. I don't want to ship code that technically works but becomes painful to maintain. Which is also why the next big step I'm working on is a real Next.js / React export — so developers don't just get a static snapshot that is hard to work with, but fully editable, maintainable code they can extend and build on top of. Build in Framer, ship anywhere, and keep building from there.

Where we are today (3th June 2026):

  • 1,000+ users in just 3 months
  • 4.7/5 rating
  • Free plan (3 lite exports/month, no credit card needed)
  • Pro at $9.99/month with GitHub Sync and auto-deployments
  • Agency plan with unlimited exports and a desktop app
  • Average export time: 24 seconds (competitors average 86)
  • Supports 100+ pages and 500+ MB per export

One agency user told us they saved over $1,200 in Framer hosting costs by switching to Framer alternative hosting on Vercel's free tier.

One meta detail: Our website is made in Framer, exported with PullPage, and hosted on Vercel for free. We eat our own cooking. By that we even improved our Core Web Vitals.

Have you ever tried to run a Framer site without Framer hosting?
👉 https://pull.page — free to start, no credit card needed.

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on June 3, 2026
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    Yeah the lock in is real and super annoying. I read that usig https://static.app/ helps keep things simple for hosting once you have the files.

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      It would be great to have static.app built into PullPage directly, so that our users can host their exported files there.

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