Export Webflow Export to HTML

Webflow doesn't make exporting easy. That's by design, they want you staying on their platform, paying their hosting fees.

Here's how their export actually works: You need a Workspace plan. Core is $19/month per seat. Freelancer is $16/month. The free Starter plan? No export. At all. Your site stays locked to Webflow's servers.

Even when you can export, there are catches.

CMS content doesn't come along. Built a blog with 50 posts using Webflow CMS? Those posts aren't in the export. You get the template structure but not the actual content. For marketing sites without CMS, this isn't a problem. For content-heavy sites, it's a dealbreaker.

E-commerce is a non-starter. Webflow stores run on their backend. Export doesn't include any shopping functionality, no cart, no checkout, nothing. Static HTML can't process payments.

What you do get is clean. Webflow produces solid HTML and CSS. The code is readable, well-structured, relatively semantic. Better than most visual builders by a significant margin. Their class naming is verbose but logical.

The export process itself is straighforward if you have access. Go to your project settings, find the Code Export section, click the button. You get a ZIP file with everything organized into folders, HTML at the root, CSS in a stylesheet folder, images in their own directory.

But most people don't have access. They built on the free plan. Or they're on a Site plan without Workspace features. Webflow knows this, they're betting you'll upgrade rather than rebuild elsewhere.

Alternative approach: use a site exporter. Tools like ours render your published Webflow site in a browser and capture everything. Same end result, HTML, CSS, images, fonts in a ZIP file. Works with any Webflow site, including free plans.

The exported code won't look identical to Webflow's native export. Class names differ slightly. But the visual output? Pixel-perfect. Your site looks exactly the same.

After export, hosting is cheap or free. Netlify, Vercel, GitHub Pages, all have free tiers that handle static sites easily. Deploy in minutes, save hundreds per year on Webflow hosting.

One thing to decide upfront: do you want to keep editing in Webflow? If yes, export might not be the right move. You'd be maintaining two versions. But if your site is done, finished, rarely updated, export makes sense. Build once, host forever.