Webflow and WordPress serve different priorities. Webflow gives you pixel-perfect visual control through a browser-based designer, managed hosting, and automatic performance optimizations. You build without touching code, updates are handled for you, and you avoid plugin conflicts. It's ideal for marketing sites, portfolios, and landing pages where design precision matters more than extensive third-party integrations. Pricing starts around $14 USD monthly for basic hosting, scaling to $39+ for CMS features. WordPress dominates in ecosystem size. Over 60,000 plugins exist for everything from multilingual SEO to membership systems to WooCommerce checkout customizations. You can hire developers anywhere—hourly rates in Ottawa range from $80 to $180 CAD depending on expertise. Hosting costs $6–$50 monthly for shared plans, $80–$300 for managed WordPress hosts like WP Engine. You control your stack completely, migrate hosts freely, and access decades of community knowledge. Webflow's limitations surface fast when you need custom user roles, complex conditional logic, or integrations beyond Zapier. You're locked to Webflow's hosting, and exporting code produces a static site that loses CMS functionality. WordPress requires more maintenance—core updates, plugin compatibility checks, security hardening—but that overhead buys you unlimited extensibility. At Ottawa SEO, we run WordPress for our 500+ domain portfolio because we need programmatic SEO, custom taxonomies, and bulk management tools that Webflow can't match. We use Webflow for select client microsites where the design needs to impress immediately and functionality stays simple. The decision hinges on whether you value creative control and simplicity over long-term scalability and integration depth. If your site will grow beyond ten pages or require user accounts, e-commerce variants, or API-heavy workflows, WordPress almost always wins. If you're launching a 5-page agency site and hate managing updates, Webflow makes sense.