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B2B website redesign cost: Webflow or custom code?

The platform is rarely the expensive decision. Content, integrations, migration risk, and what the site must do after launch set the real number.

Michael Sebastian

Creative Director

Richardson Homeschool Association website on desktop and mobile.

A serious B2B website redesign usually starts around $20,000 for a focused marketing site and can move past $150,000 when research, positioning, complex content, integrations, migration, or custom product behavior enter the scope. Webflow can reduce implementation cost for a marketing-led site. Custom code earns its price when the website must behave like software.

Choose the operating burden you can support.

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DecisionWebflowCustom code
Best forMarketing sites with structured content, controlled interactions, and a team that needs visual editing.Sites with application behavior, unusual data, deep personalization, or product-grade integrations.
Cost pressureStrategy, copy, design, CMS structure, migration, and platform limits.Everything in Webflow plus engineering, testing, hosting, observability, and maintenance.
After launchA trained marketing team can own most routine changes.Someone must own the codebase, dependencies, deployment, and security.
Common mistakeForcing product behavior into a marketing tool until every exception becomes a workaround.Paying for engineering freedom the business will never use.

The proposal gets honest when these four things are named.

How much content must move?

Twenty clean pages and 2,000 inconsistent pages are not the same migration, even if the new homepage looks identical.

What must the site connect to?

CRM, product data, localization, gated resources, calculators, and account behavior can move the build out of brochure territory.

Who owns it next year?

The right platform is the one your actual team can run after the launch crew leaves.

What happens if migration fails?

Lost URLs, broken attribution, and missing forms can erase years of search equity and pipeline history in one afternoon.

Price the truth

Inventory content, integrations, search equity, accessibility, analytics, and approval complexity before picking a platform.

Choose the boring fit

Use Webflow when a marketing site is the job. Use custom code when software behavior is the job.

Fund the handoff

Training, governance, monitoring, and a clean backlog belong in the scope. Launch is the start of ownership.

Questions answered.

Is Webflow cheaper than custom development?

Usually at implementation and maintenance. It stops being cheaper when the team keeps forcing unsupported product behavior into it.

What is normally excluded from a website redesign estimate?

Positioning, net-new copy, photography, complex migration cleanup, CRM repair, localization, and post-launch optimization are often separate. Ask before comparing totals.

How long should a B2B redesign take?

A focused site can ship in three to four months. Complex approvals, content migration, integrations, and late strategy decisions push that timeline much faster than the design itself.

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Bring a project or a question about your business. We’ll help you decide what needs attention and agree a useful next step.

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