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Builder.io vs Plasmic

Our take

Pick Builder.io if you're on a product team who already have a design system in git and want marketers or PMs to ship on those components. Pick Plasmic if you're on a frontend team who want marketers to edit real pages without giving up the repo. Skip Builder.io if you're a founder who only wants a one-shot prompt-to-React file (v0 by Vercel). Skip Plasmic if you're a no-repo prompt-to-site (TeleportHQ).

Builder.io

Builder.io

visual CMS plus design-to-code desk

Plasmic

Plasmic

visual builder that sits on your codebase

Best for

Builder.io Ship pages on your components

Plasmic A visual CMS for a real app

Free plan

Builder.io $0 · / user / mo. 1 user (up to 5). 60 credits/month (15/day max). GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket, Figma plugin, VS Code extension, project hosting

Plasmic $0 · / month, free forever. Custom domains; deploy to third-party servers; Plasmic badge on hosted sites

Lowest paid

Builder.io Pro $24

Plasmic Extra collaborator rows on the page print $20 and $40 / collaborator. $20

Next step up

Builder.io On-demand credits $25

Plasmic Starter $39/mo yearly

Coding agent

Builder.io Agent credits

Plasmic

Runs where

Builder.io

Plasmic desktop, mobile; hosted

Watch out

Builder.io Credits are the meter

Plasmic Free hosted sites keep the Plasmic badge

Last checked

Builder.io 2026-10-28 · builder.io/pricing

Plasmic 2026-10-28 · plasmic.app/pricing

Which one, then?

Pick Builder.io if

product teams who already have a design system in git and want marketers or PMs to ship on those components.

Read the Builder.io page

Pick Plasmic if

frontend teams who want marketers to edit real pages without giving up the repo.

Read the Plasmic page

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