Framer vs Strapi
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No-code website builder reaching $50M ARR in August 2025 at $2B valuation with 500K MAU; used by 40% of YC's latest batch and Perplexity competing with Webflow for design-quality sites.
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Framer is a professional no-code website builder and design tool used by marketing teams, startups, and design-led companies to create responsive, interactive websites without writing code — combining the visual fidelity of a design tool (Figma-like precision) with the publishing infrastructure of a CMS, enabling teams to go from design to live website without a separate development handoff. Founded in Amsterdam and backed by $161 million total funding including a $100 million Series D in August 2025 at a $2 billion valuation, Framer reached $50 million ARR in August 2025 (doubling from $25 million in 2024) with 500,000 monthly active users including Miro, Perplexity, Scale AI, and 40% of Y Combinator's latest batch.
Paris open-source headless CMS with $49M funding (CRV/Nat Friedman Series B Jun 2022); 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, developer-first with Strapi Cloud managed hosting competing with Contentful and Sanity for API-first content management.
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Strapi is a Paris, France-based open-source headless CMS company — backed with $49 million in total funding including a $31 million Series B in June 2022 led by CRV with Flex Capital, Index Ventures, and angel investor Nat Friedman (former GitHub CEO) — providing developers and digital teams with the most popular open-source headless content management system (CMS), built 100% in JavaScript/TypeScript and designed to be fully customizable and developer-first, enabling content-rich digital experiences across any device or channel through a flexible REST and GraphQL API layer. Founded in 2016 in Paris and operating with 97 employees, Strapi has been adopted by thousands of development teams globally and launched Strapi Cloud (managed hosting service) to provide a SaaS deployment path alongside the self-hosted open-source installation. Strapi's GitHub repository is one of the most-starred CMS projects globally.
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