WordPress, Webflow or Statamic: which CMS should you choose for your business website?

Short answer: choose WordPress if you need lots of plugins or a large online shop and you already have someone who keeps on top of updates. Choose Webflow if design comes first, your site stays relatively small and you want to make changes yourself without a developer. Choose Statamic if you want a fast, secure site with full control over your code and you have a development partner. For most Belgian SME websites of between ten and a hundred pages, Webflow and Statamic are a better choice than WordPress, mainly because maintenance is much lighter.

Almost every website project starts with the same question. WordPress runs more than forty per cent of the web, so it’s the default everyone points to. Being the default doesn’t automatically make it the right fit, though.

We build on Statamic and Webflow ourselves, so this isn’t a neutral piece. That’s why we spell out when WordPress is the better choice, because those cases exist.

The three systems side by side

WordPress: choose it if you really need the ecosystem

WordPress’s strength is choice. Tens of thousands of plugins, a huge market of developers, and a ready-made solution for almost every problem. For an online shop with complex logic, a membership platform or an integration with a specific accounting package, this is where you’ll find something off the shelf fastest.

Choose WordPress if you need several specialised plugins, want to run a large online shop on WooCommerce, or already have someone in your organisation who knows WordPress.

The part people underestimate is maintenance. A WordPress site is a live installation that needs ongoing care. The core gets updates, your theme gets updates, and every plugin gets updates. Fall behind and your site becomes a target. Most of the hacked sites we take over were compromised through an outdated plugin rather than through WordPress itself.

Budget half an hour to two hours of maintenance a month, or outsource it. Free software with paid maintenance: that’s the honest summary.

Webflow: choose it if design and independence come first

Webflow is a visual builder that outputs clean code. You design in the browser, and what you see is what gets published. Hosting, security and updates are included in the subscription.

For a company without a technical team, that’s a big advantage. You can add a page, build a campaign landing page or edit your copy yourself without calling anyone.

Since May 2026, Webflow has used a simplified pricing structure. The Basic site plan costs about $15 a month billed annually, and the Premium plan with CMS about $25 a month billed annually or $39 billed monthly. Workspace plans for collaboration are charged separately, from about $19 per user. Prices are in dollars and may change, so check them before you decide.

Where it pinches: you’re tied to the platform. You can export your content, but moving your site to another environment means rebuilding it in practice. And with complex functionality, such as a calculator or a link to an internal system, you hit limits sooner than with a system where you write your own code.

Statamic: choose it if you want speed, security and control

Statamic runs on Laravel and stores content in plain files instead of a database. That sounds like a detail, but it changes a lot.

No database means a smaller attack surface and fewer things that can break. Your entire site, content included, lives in Git. You can see who changed what and when, you can roll back, and you can work locally on a copy. For multilingual sites, support is built in instead of bolted on through a plugin.

Because no database is queried and pages are served as HTML, load times are good without three caching plugins. That helps your Core Web Vitals, and it helps with AI search engines, which read a page with its full content in the HTML better than a page that only pulls in its text with JavaScript.

The licence is a one-off fee of about €300 per site. You arrange hosting yourself; with us, it’s included in the maintenance plan of €95 to €150 a month.

Where it pinches: you need a development partner. You can manage content yourself, but you can’t overhaul the design yourself. The range of ready-made extensions is also much smaller than with WordPress. If you want a forum today and a booking system tomorrow, that’s custom work.

What it costs to build

The system is rarely the biggest cost. The work around it is. Our guide prices, for reference:

• Analysis and wireframing: from €860
• Visual design in Figma: from €1,840
• Technical build with content, single language: from €3,950
• Multilingual build, three to four languages including translation: €5,500 to €7,500
• Smaller site in Webflow: €2,300 to €3,000
• Statamic licence: €300 one-off
• Hosting and maintenance: €95 to €150 a month

That last line always belongs in the budget, whatever the system. A website without maintenance will be broken or insecure within two years.

Frequently asked questions

Is WordPress bad?

No. It’s a tool that often gets used for the wrong job. For a complex online shop or a site that relies on existing plugins, it’s an excellent choice. For a twenty-page company site, it’s often more maintenance than you need.

Which CMS is best for SEO?

All three can be technically sound. The difference lies in how easy it is to get right. Statamic and Webflow deliver fast, server-rendered pages as standard. With WordPress, it depends on your theme, your plugins and your hosting, and those three can work against each other.

Can I switch later?

Moving from WordPress or Statamic to something else is possible, because your content sits in your own files or database. From Webflow it’s harder: you can export your content, but you rebuild the design. Factor that in if you expect your site to do something very different three years from now.

What does maintenance cost per month?

With us, €95 to €150 a month, depending on the size of the site. That covers hosting, updates, back-ups and monitoring. WordPress takes more time than Statamic or Webflow, because it has more components that each get their own updates.

Do I need a developer?

With Webflow, not necessarily, though it helps for the initial build. With Statamic, yes for design and functionality, but not for content. With WordPress you can get a long way without one, until something breaks.

In short

For a Belgian SME with a site of ten to a hundred pages that mainly needs to persuade and be found, Webflow and Statamic are usually the better choice. Webflow if you want to be able to build yourself, Statamic if speed, multilingual support and control over your code matter more to you.

WordPress remains the right choice as soon as you rely on the plugin ecosystem, and certainly for larger online shops.

Who makes that choice depends on how you organise your project. That trade-off is covered in Freelancer, agency or in-house.

Not sure which of the three suits you? Tell us what your site needs to do and who will manage it. Those two answers usually settle the choice.