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Onlook

59 · Caution

Visual editor for React and Tailwind apps, where designers edit the running site and changes are written back to code.

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Onlook

Visual editor for React and Tailwind apps, where designers edit the running site and changes are written back to code.

GitHub onlook.com

Alternative to

Webflow Framer

Will it still be around?

Caution

Score 59/100

Details

Can a business use it freely?

Free to use

Apache-2.0 · open source (permissive)

Details

Flat Rate Deploy

Monthly cost

Onlook on OpenTools: $39
Webflow: ~~$1,000~~

You save each month

$961/mo

96% less than today

Saving from month one

You save

Over 3 years: $34,596
In year one: $11,532

List price checked 8 Oct 2026 · Source · Disclaimer

Bespoke

We set up Onlook for you. You pay once.

You pay $1,000 a month for Webflow. Setup is $3,000, paid once, and after that Onlook runs for about $324 a month (your server, about $24, plus about $300 of maintenance), so it pays for itself in month 5.

Pays for itself: Month 5$5,112 saved in year one
Setup, paid once: $3,000fixed price, agreed up front
Maintenance: $150/houronly when you ask for it

What we do

Data migrationRecords, files and history moved from Webflow, with a test run before the cut-over
ConfigurationWorkflows, custom fields, roles, permissions and SSO set up for your team
IntegrationsConnected to your CRM, Slack, accounting tools and APIs
MaintenanceUpdates, fixes and admin help when you ask, at $150 an hour
Paid editionsThe vendor's paid features, enabled, with the licence at cost
ComplianceData residency, audit logs, data processing agreements, security questionnaires
TrainingAn admin walkthrough, a runbook and sessions for your team

Total spent, month by monthWebflowBespoke Onlook

Show as a table

Month	Webflow	Bespoke	Saved so far
Today	$0	$3,000	–
Month 3	$3,000	$3,972	–
Month 6	$6,000	$4,944	$1,056
Month 9	$9,000	$5,916	$3,084
Month 12	$12,000	$6,888	$5,112
Month 18	$18,000	$8,832	$9,168
Month 24	$24,000	$10,776	$13,224
Month 30	$30,000	$12,720	$17,280
Month 36	$36,000	$14,664	$21,336

Servers run on your own cloud account, paid to your provider. Running cost counts about 2 hours of maintenance a month; you're billed only for hours you ask for. Migration and the other activities are quoted with the setup.

Get a fixed quote

Health score: 59/100

Caution · activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness, from GitHub

Score v2 · How it works

Activity

45% weight

61/100

Last commit 80 days ago (85/100).
48 commits in the past 12 months (73/100).
0 releases in the past 12 months (0/100).

Bus factor

30% weight

71/100

Top contributor wrote 47% of the last 47 commits (past 12 months).
4 people authored those commits.

Responsiveness

25% weight

40/100

67% of all issues are closed (308 open, 637 closed) (62/100).
5 of 20 recent issues got a reply or were closed (25/100).

License

Free to use

Apache-2.0 · Open source (permissive)

What you need to do

Use, change, host and sell it for any purpose, commercial included, with no license to buy. Keep the copyright notice.

Apache License 2.0 · Open source (permissive). OSI-approved license with few conditions beyond keeping the copyright notice.

Detected by GitHub as Apache-2.0.

GitHub activity

Stars: 27k
Forks: 2.1k
Commits, 12 mo: 48; last 3 months ago
Releases, 12 mo: 0; last 15 months ago
Contributors: 103; 4 in last 47 commits
Open issues: 308; 637 closed

Snapshot from 2026-10-09

Top contributors

Points for pull requests merged into Onlook and reviews of them since 10 October 2025. Building something another user asked for earns more.

Bespoke · we set it up$3,000once Flat Rate Deploy$39/mo