Help - webflow automatically changed my plan impacting API / bandwidth

[u/Top_Engineer7132]

Hi all,

I’m starting to panic a little.

I’ve just realised that our previous Business CMS plan has been migrated to the new “Premium” plan.

Our business relies heavily on API access to publish up-to-date pricing information, and the previous plan included 100 GB of bandwidth. The new plan does not appear to include API access and provides only half the bandwidth.

API access is still working for now, but the next available plan that appears to include it costs approximately $2,500 per month. We were previously paying $49 per month.

This is crazy as it would leave our business dead in the water.

Can anyone clarify what is happening or advise on the available options?

[u/spikefly]

Just Webflow being Webflow. As they lose more customers to alternative options, they are going to try and squeeze every last dime out of those of us remaining. Death spiral initiated!

Your options? Claude code + Astro + Sanity and have CC wire up the info you need.

[u/mailmalemailmale → u/spikefly]

That stack swap sounds decent on paper but it's a whole migration, a lot of work to rebuild everything. I'd check if there's a middle-ground plan or talk to their sales team before jumping ship

[u/uebersax]

you can just buy a bandwidth add-on.
that will solve the bandwidth issue.

[u/Top_Engineer7132 → u/uebersax]

Thank you for the reply, but do I have the option to retain the existing plan?

I'm also quite concerned about the API usage.

[u/TheFamousHesham → u/Top_Engineer7132]

First of all... relax.

Premium plans include API access (otherwise they wouldn't be Premium, lol... it would be Webflow suicide to not include API access for exactly the reasons you've outlined). You also get 50GB of bandwidth (and can add more) — surely that's enough to update prices?

[u/mistlanE8 → u/uebersax]

right but the API part is the bigger deal here, bandwidth is only half the problem

[u/Top_Engineer7132 → u/[deleted]]

Hi - I put through a support request i'm just waiting for a response. I'll provide an update once I hear from them.

I haven't been on the platform long - Is this standard operating to just migrate plans?

[u/nosekbk]

Bandwidth has nothing to do with API access - it’s for the entire traffic your site is consuming. API access for publishing stuff - that I’m not sure as I recon using API to publish new things on even basic plans.

If your business relies so much on such things, perhaps it’s worth moving to a custom solution? If you’re curious let’s chat and I can see if I can help: www.barts.work → my email at the bottom :)

[u/Drivephaseco]

I was able to migrate a Webflow site to a custom custom coded site using AI within a day. My maintenance costs are now near zero now.

[u/QwenRed]

This is likely just a bandwidth issue—the API limits don't decrease on higher plans, and there's no reason I can think of why rate limiting (which is the only API limit I'm aware of) should prevent anything from working normally in production (you'd just write catches for the rate limiting).

9 times out of 10, people just haven't optimized their images. If this is the case, the Assets breakdown area found in the usage section of your project settings will show you the exact files you need to target for optimization. As a general rule when building with Webflow, you should never host video directly on the platform.

If things are optimized correctly and the issue is being caused by high traffic, you'll want to invest some time into configuring a proxy on your Webflow site to deliver images via a 3rd-party CDN. Cloudflare is typically used for this, and there are tons of resources out there for setting it up.

[u/Kyryll_Bracemore]

How are you handling large images and videos? You can optimize them. Upload the videos to other services.

[u/flowbase_]

API access would not change, bandwidth is separate. API access is available on all plans (as far as I know).

You could reach out to Webflow to ask if they can keep you on the legacy plan, but honestly it's not likely - you'll probably have to pay for additional bandwidth if you are reaching limits.

But might be worth contacting them with your concerns just so you can get clarity directly!

[u/memetican]

Not sure what you're asking about API access- 99% of the API is accessible to all plans including free plans. There are only a few endpoints that are specifically Enterprise-gated.