Framer to Sanity Migration Agency

Migrate from Framer to Sanity

verified November 2026

Ready to scale beyond a visual builder? Migrate from Framer to Sanity for structured content, advanced SEO, and limitless omnichannel growth.

Migration Without the Guesswork

Framer works well when the job is mostly visual and the page count stays low. The friction starts when content becomes more than a set of static sections — when localization, reuse, and approvals all need to be managed properly. At that point, a visual builder becomes hard to govern at scale. Sanity keeps the design freedom, but adds structured content, clearer workflows, and the editorial controls teams need once the site becomes operationally complex.

That shift matters because it lets marketing and engineering move in parallel instead of waiting on each other. Content can be reused across pages and channels, localized without duplication, and updated without rebuilding every view by hand. You keep the speed of a flexible front end. You remove the bottleneck behind it.

Why Migrate from Framer?

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Hard to manage large or structured content
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Website speed can drop as designs become more complex
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Limited tools for global or multi-language sites
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Editors often depend on designers for updates
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Not ideal for content teams handling frequent changes
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Difficult to integrate with custom systems or workflows
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Aggressive per-language and per-editor fees scale your costs out of control
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Your data is locked in a website builder, unable to power other channels

Afraid of Losing the Canvas?

The biggest fear when leaving a visual builder is flying blind in a form-based CMS. With Sanity Presentation, you don't have to. We configure your Sanity Studio with a live, interactive 1:1 preview of your Next.js website. Your marketing team can click on any text or image on the screen and edit the underlying data instantly. You keep the visual confidence of Framer, but gain the infinite scalability of structured content.

What TrafficGuard Gained with Migration to Sanity

30+
Pages created
12
Weeks from start to finish
50+
Blocks built
100%
Vercel uptime
Migration to other CMSs

Best for: Transitioning to TS-native microservices & self-hosting

Features

Migrate from a proprietary, locked-down DOM generator to a fully controlled TypeScript application layer. Payload acts as both a headless CMS and an app framework. We decouple your presentation layer to Next.js and give your engineering team full access to the underlying Express/Node.js backend and MongoDB/Postgres database. No SaaS limitations.

Learn More — Framer → Payload CMS

Best for: Component-driven architecture with a GUI

Features

Decouple your visual presentation from a closed ecosystem. We rebuild your Framer design as strict React/Next.js components and map them to Storyblok’s API-first visual editor. This gives non-technical users a real-time preview environment while ensuring engineers maintain 100% control over the codebase, rendering strategies, and Core Web Vitals.

Learn More — Framer → Storyblok

Best for: API-first enterprise orchestration

Features

Transition from a monolithic SaaS builder to a scalable composable architecture. We integrate Contentful to provide enterprise-grade GraphQL/REST APIs, granular RBAC (Role-Based Access Control), and CI/CD compatibility. This is the optimal route for orchestrating a complex, multi-regional Next.js deployment integrated with enterprise CDPs and analytics.

Learn More — Framer → Contentful

Migration without the Risk

What we migrate

  • All CMS Collections, structured text, and relationships
  • File assets, images, and SEO metadata
  • Static page content and localization structures

What we protect

  • Your Pixel-Perfect Design: Our engineers meticulously recreate your Framer aesthetic and animations using Next.js and modern React libraries (like Framer Motion).
  • Your SEO Equity: Every URL and canonical tag is mapped and redirected perfectly to maintain your search rankings.
  • Your budget: We provide transparent, detailed estimations upfront. You get predictable delivery with the highest density of value per dollar spent.

Custom Frontend Build (Next.js)

Global & Multi-Language Setup

Team Training & Launch

How We Help Migrate?

01

Framer Review & Planning

We examine your current Framer site, content, and structure to plan the migration clearly.

02

Sanity Content Modeling

We build structured content types in Sanity so your team can work efficiently and reuse content.

03

Custom Frontend Build (Next.js)

We develop a fast, clean Next.js frontend to improve performance, SEO, and reliability.

04

Global & Multi-Language Setup

If needed, we configure languages, regions, and workflows for organized content management.

05

Team Training & Launch

We train your team to use Sanity and provide documentation so they can work independently.

How we work

Governed and Scalable, by Design

We design content models, editorial workflows, and governance into the architecture from day one to make your Information Architecture clean and usable as your team, markets, and channels grow.

Editorial UX boosts your marketing team's speed and freedom. They can build pages, launch campaigns, and manage content without needing developer help.

Performance & AI SEO by Default

Each project includes a complete SEO + LLM optimization. Performance baseline as standard: Core Web Vitals, structured data, rendering strategy, and AI SEO setup.

Scalable Next.js architecture derived from 7+ years of experience.

Already live? Our Next.js SEO audit gives you an actionable, dev-ready assessment of where you stand.

Predictable & Efficient Delivery

90% of our projects fit the initial budget. That comes from the time we invest upfront — understanding exactly what we're building before a single line of code is written.

Our CMS Kit has page builders, navigation, localization, content models, and SEO settings. It boosts every engagement. Plus, it won’t limit your choices. It's a smart starter refined across dozens of production deployments, not a constraint.

Feature Mapping

Design-led site builder

Optimized for visual design and page creation

Structured content platform

Focuses on fully structured, schema-driven content, making it easier to manage complex content types and scale beyond simple marketing pages

Content tied to pages

Content is closely bound to individual pages and layouts

Content independent of presentation

Separates content from design entirely, allowing teams to reuse the same content across multiple websites, apps, and channels

Single-user editing

Primarily geared toward individual designers or small teams

Real-time team collaboration

Enables real-time collaborative editing, live previews, and granular roles - better suited for growing content and marketing teams

Limited extensibility

Offers limited customization beyond its built-in features

Highly customizable developer stack

Provides JavaScript-based schemas, custom inputs, and extensible tooling, allowing developers to tailor the CMS to specific workflows and business needs

Website-only output

Mainly used to publish a single website

Omnichannel content delivery

API-first architecture allows the same content to power websites, mobile apps, product interfaces, and other digital touchpoints

Our Clients Say

"Our main goal was to get a new website that met SEC compliance requirements while also being well set up for SEO. The FocusReactive team handled both the design and development using Sanity CMS and Vercel, and delivered a fully working site ready for launch. The process was smooth, and we now have a clean, reliable website that gives us a strong foundation for future growth."

Michael Koenig
Founding Partner at Financial Team

"We needed a headless CMS solution to enter the highly regulated US sports betting and online casino market. We chose Focus Reactive to develop it using Sanity. Because of them, today we have a tailor made, flexible and high-quality CMS Studio on deadline. Impressed by the quality of work and transparency throughout the process."

Daniel Eordough
VP, Head of Product Management at Tipico

Recent migration projects

TrafficGuard

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Industry
Advertising Technology
Technical stack
Sanity
NextJS
Vercel
Scope of work
Website Migration
Maintenance

Financial Team

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Industry
Finance
Technical stack
Sanity
Next.JS
Vercel
Scope of work
Website development

Tipico Marketing

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Industry
iGaming
Technical stack
Sanity
Next.JS
Vercel
Scope of work
Website development

Caleffi

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Industry
Textile Manufacturing
Technical stack
Sanity
Shopify Hydrogen
Scope of work
Migration from Magento
Webshop development
Maintenance

FAQs

Migration from Framer to Sanity

Is Sanity more expensive than Framer?

Sanity starts from $0 on Free, from $15 per seat/month on Growth, and Enterprise is custom pricing. Framer starts from $0, with typical paid plans around $5/month for Mini, $15/month for Basic, and $25/month for Pro, plus editor seats often around $10–$20/month. Framer is usually the lower-cost option for simple brochure sites, while Sanity tends to justify its cost when teams need reusable structured content, stronger governance, and more flexibility as the site grows.

How long does migration take?

Most migrations take between 4 and 8 weeks.

Can we keep our current design?

Yes, or we can update the design if you want improvements.

Is Sanity easy for editors to use?

Yes, the interface is clean and simple to learn.

Is Sanity suitable for long-term growth?

Yes, it’s designed to scale with your content, team, and digital presence.

Will our new site be faster?

Yes, a custom Next.js frontend typically performs much better.

What we write about Sanity

Sanity CMS overview
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Sanity CMS overview

Delve into how Sanity CMS transforms content collaboration and management across diverse digital landscapes.
Think headless CMS are not customizable? We disproved this using Sanity
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Think headless CMS are not customizable? We disproved this using Sanity

Sanity encourage to customize almost everything. Any Sanity module can be rewritten. This makes it possible to have your own combination of standard and custom components in your application.
A Deep Dive into Sanity's Visual Editing and Presentation Tool
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A Deep Dive into Sanity's Visual Editing and Presentation Tool

Explore Sanity’s new Visual Editing and Presentation tool. See how these features make editing smoother, simplify content updates, and give developers and editors live previews right inside the CMS.

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