Grav vs Webflow
Grav and Webflow are both CMS software. Grav is open source under MIT, with 16k GitHub stars. Webflow is a commercial product from Webflow.
Which to pick
- Pick Grav when
- You need a small to medium website without a database and like content in files.
- Pick Webflow when
- A marketing team or designer wants pixel-level control of a site without developers, and the site fits Webflow's CMS limits.
Side by side
A flat-file PHP CMS that stores pages as Markdown files, with Twig themes, plugins and an optional admin panel.
A visual website builder that produces clean HTML and CSS, with a CMS, hosting and interactions.
Plugin quality varies, and large sites become slow without care.
Site plans plus workspace seats add up, CMS item limits apply, and moving off it means rebuilding.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
PHP, Twig and Symfony
Not published
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source, sold by Webflow
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
16k GitHub stars
460 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 12 years ago, latest release 2.2.22.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.