A Webflow alternative for non-designers.
Webflow gives a designer control of every detail. Minispace gives an owner one page, made from a chat in minutes, then helps it win customers.
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Webflow is a professional design tool. You build on a visual canvas, with a CMS for your content and animations you make yourself. It also has an AI site builder that starts a site from a prompt. It is a tool you learn, and in return you decide every detail. Minispace asks for none of that. You chat with Mini, your AI designer, and she makes a one-page website from your own words and photos in minutes. Both have a free plan. On Webflow, your own domain starts with Basic, at $15 a month billed yearly. On Minispace it is on Launch, at $19 a year.
Minispace or Webflow: which to pick
Pick Webflow if you are a designer, or work with one, and you want to set the layout, the animations and a CMS yourself. Pick Minispace if you run a business and want your page made today, without learning a design tool. You tell Mini what you do, add a few photos, and she builds the page while you watch.
Why owners pick Minispace
Three reasons. The start: no canvas and no classes to learn. You chat, and to change something you click it and tell Mini. The price: your own domain is $19 a year, and you see the page before you pay. What comes after: the website is where it starts. On Launch, every sign-up and message lands in People, and you see your numbers in plain words.
When to pick which
Pick Minispace if
- You want a page made for you, with no design tool to learn.
- One page can say what your business does.
- You want your own domain for $19 a year.
- You want your sign-ups and messages in the same place as your website.
Pick Webflow if
- You are a designer, or work with one, and want to set every detail.
- You need many pages, or a CMS for your content.
- You want animations you build yourself.
- You build sites for clients.
Side by side
| Feature | Minispace | Webflow |
|---|---|---|
| How you start | A chat with Mini. She builds the page from your words and photos. | A prompt to its AI site builder, or the Designer's canvas. |
| How you change it | Click a part and tell Mini. Undo it if you don't like it. | In the Designer, with its style and interaction panels. |
| A design tool to learn | None. You chat. | The Designer |
| Free planMinispace's is on a minispace subdomain. Webflow's Starter is on a webflow.io address, with two pages. | Yes | Yes |
| Your own domain | On Launch, $19 / year | From Basic, $15 a month billed yearly |
| Pages | One page | Many pages |
| CMS | No | On Premium, $25 a month billed yearly |
| Animations you build yourself | No | Yes |
| Design | Mini designs the page. You ask for changes. | You design it, down to every detail. |
What each costs
| Plan | Minispace | Webflow |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0, on a minispace subdomain | Starter, $0, on a webflow.io address, two pages |
| Your own domain | Launch, $19 / year | Basic, $15 a month billed yearly, or $25 billed monthly |
| CMS | Minispace has no CMS | Premium, $25 a month billed yearly, or $39 billed monthly |
| How it is billed | One website for each account | Each site has its own Site plan |
Questions, answered.
Is Minispace a free Webflow alternative?
Building your page with Mini is free, so you see it before you pay. Launch is $19 a year and puts it on your own domain. Webflow has a free plan too, Starter: it publishes two pages on a webflow.io address.
How much does Webflow cost?
Webflow prices each site. Starter is free. Basic is $15 a month billed yearly, or $25 billed monthly, and adds your own domain. Premium is $25 a month billed yearly, or $39 billed monthly, and adds the CMS. On Minispace, Launch is $19 a year.
Is Minispace a Webflow hosting alternative?
For a one-page website, yes. On Webflow, a Site plan is what puts a site on your own domain, from $15 a month billed yearly. On Minispace, hosting is part of every plan, and your own domain is on Launch, at $19 a year. A site built in Webflow can't be moved over as it is. Mini builds a new page.
Does Webflow have an AI website builder?
Yes. Webflow's AI site builder makes a site from a prompt, and you finish it in the Designer. On Minispace there is no design tool. You chat with Mini to build the page and to change it.
Can Minispace match Webflow's design control?
No. Webflow lets you set every detail yourself. On Minispace, Mini designs the page from your words, your photos and your Brand Kit's colors and fonts, and you ask her for changes.
What can Webflow do that Minispace can't?
Many pages, a CMS, animations you build yourself, and a plan for each site you make. Minispace builds one page for each account.