Quilium vs Webflow,
for agencies that deliver client sites.
Webflow combines a visual design canvas, a CMS and hosting. Quilium is a structured CMS that renders and hosts the HTML you already wrote. The difference is where the design lives.
The short answer
Choose Webflow when designers build the site visually, in the browser, and visual interactions are part of the brief. Choose Quilium when the site is written as code, by a developer or a coding agent, and you want unlimited languages at no extra cost, hosting in the EU and a back office built for managing content.
Webflow is the better fit if
- Your designers want to build the final site themselves, visually, on a canvas.
- Animations built visually in the Interactions panel are central to the project.
- The client's marketing team wants to create pages itself from components.
- You want to start from a Webflow template rather than from your own code.
Quilium is the better fit if
- Your sites start as HTML and CSS: hand-written, produced by a coding agent, or by a tool like Lovable or Claude Design.
- Clients control the content and its publishing workflow, not the design system.
- Sites ship in several languages and language count must not change the bill.
- You want templates versioned in your own Git repository and hosting in the EU.
Side by side
The same client site, two ways to build it.
| Webflow | Quilium | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the design lives | In the Webflow Designer: classes, components and interactions built on a visual canvas and stored in the Webflow project. | In your repository: your HTML and CSS become Liquid templates. |
| Content model | CMS Collections with typed fields and references, bound to designs on the canvas. | Page types, content blocks and collections declared in YAML, versioned with the templates. |
| Client editing | Roles per seat: Content editor edits content only, Marketer builds pages from components. | A back office built for content: collections, media, drafts, publishing workflow, activity log. The design system is not editable there. |
| Multilingual | Webflow Localize: an optional add-on on paid Site plans, priced by number of locales (Essential up to 3, Advanced up to 10). The Team plan includes 2 locales. | Unlimited languages on every plan, at no extra cost. Localised URLs and hreflang included. |
| Hosting and security | Included with a Site plan: managed hosting on a global CDN, SSL and automatic backups. | Included: EU hosting, SSL, WAF, daily backups and monitoring. Platform updates applied and tested by us. |
| AI and agents | Webflow AI, an API and a CLI, plus an official MCP server built on Webflow's APIs, available on every Site plan. | The same set: a built-in assistant, an API, a CLI and an MCP server, on every plan. The MCP server also serves guides that teach agents Quilium's patterns. |
| Pricing model | Site plan, Workspace plan and optional add-ons chosen separately, or a bundled Team plan. | A flat price per live site, and partner pricing for agencies and freelancers from the first site. Building is free until the site goes live. |
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What changes
Three differences that matter on client sites.
Where the design lives
On Webflow, the design is built on a visual canvas, in the Designer. On Quilium it stays in your repository: the HTML and CSS you wrote, or produced with Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable or Claude Design, become Liquid templates connected to fields. The prototype the client approved is the site that goes live.
A content backend, not a site builder
Webflow handles client editing with roles: the Content editor role only edits content. Quilium is not a site builder or a design tool for clients. It is a backend built for managing content: collections, media, drafts, publishing and translations. Designers and developers keep their own tools, and the design stays in their templates.
Agents: both have MCP
Webflow has an official MCP server, built on its APIs; most actions work without the Designer open. Quilium has one too. The difference is what the agent works on: HTML templates and a content model in YAML, files it already knows how to write. The MCP server, the CLI and the API all act on that same model, and the MCP server also gives the agent guides to Quilium's patterns.
Questions agencies ask.
Does Quilium have a visual designer like Webflow?
No, deliberately. The design is your HTML and CSS, turned into Liquid templates. If your team designs by building visually in the browser, Webflow is the better tool for that.
Can I move a Webflow site to Quilium?
Yes. Export the site's code (a paid Workspace plan is needed) and each CMS Collection as CSV, let your agent propose page types and collections, turn the pages into Liquid templates, then import the content through the CLI or the API. Redirect the URLs that change. For your own or your client's site, an agent can also rebuild it from its public pages, as long as the content is visible there.
What does Quilium cost?
A flat price per live site: €59.90 a month for Starter, VAT included, billed yearly. Hosting, backups, unlimited languages and MCP access are included. Agencies get partner pricing through the Partner program.
Try it on your next client site.
Bring an HTML prototype. Building is free, you pay when the site goes live.