If your Webflow site shows video, you should read this carefully.
On May 13, 2026, Webflow's included bandwidth dropped from 100GB to 50GB on its main paid plan. Bandwidth add-ons are still available, but you pay extra for them now.
That's a problem if you embed video on your site. And it's a bigger problem than most people realize.
What actually changed in Webflow's May 2026 pricing update?
Webflow combined the old CMS and Business plans into a single new Premium plan. The headline price looks reasonable: $25/month billed yearly, or $39/month billed monthly.
But here's the part nobody talks about loud enough. Included bandwidth dropped from 100GB to 50GB. If you used to be on the old Business plan, you've just lost half your bandwidth allowance overnight.
If you're an existing customer, the changes kick in at your next renewal on or after June 29, 2026. Sites in Freelancer or Agency Workspaces, or on legacy pricing, have until November 16, 2026. So you have some breathing room, but the clock is ticking.
Why does the bandwidth cut hit video sites the hardest?
Video is heavy. Really heavy.
A single 1080p video served from your site can use anywhere from 50MB to 500MB per viewer, depending on length and how long they watch.
Some quick math to put 50GB in perspective:
- A 2-minute autoplaying hero video at 1080p uses around 30MB per view
- 50GB divided by 30MB equals roughly 1,700 views before you hit your limit
- That's not 1,700 visitors. That's 1,700 video plays
If your homepage has an autoplay background video and you get 5,000 visitors a month, you're already over the cap. And that's before counting any other pages, CSS, JavaScript, or image traffic.
The result: you pay for bandwidth add-ons. Every month.
How does SuperMoo change the math?
Here's the thing most Webflow users miss. Video doesn't have to be served from your Webflow site at all.
When you host video with SuperMoo, the player loads from our servers, not yours. The bandwidth cost moves off your Webflow plan. Your 50GB stays free for your actual website content: pages, images, fonts, and code.
Your real Webflow bill stays where it is. Your video keeps working, branded to you, GDPR-safe by default. And those bandwidth add-on fees never hit your card.
For most sites with video, that's the difference between paying for the next Webflow tier up and staying on the plan you have.
How Webflow's Bandwidth Cut Could Double Your Hosting Bill (And How to Avoid It)
Webflow bandwidth refers to the amount of data your published Webflow site can serve to visitors each month before extra usage charges apply. Bandwidth is consumed by every page load, image, font, script, and embedded video served from your Webflow site. As of May 13, 2026, the new Premium plan includes 50GB of bandwidth, down from 100GB on the previous Business plan.
Key concepts
- Webflow Premium Plan
- The new Webflow site plan introduced on May 13, 2026, replacing the previous CMS and Business plans. Premium is priced at $25/month billed annually or $39/month billed monthly and includes 50GB of bandwidth. Bandwidth add-ons are available for sites that exceed the included allowance.
- Website Bandwidth
- The total amount of data your website transfers to visitors each month. Bandwidth is consumed by every page view, image, font, script, and embedded video served from your site. When a hosting plan's included bandwidth is exceeded, additional charges apply through add-ons or plan upgrades.
- Video Bandwidth Consumption
- The amount of data used each time a video is played on a website. A single 1080p video typically uses 50MB to 500MB per viewer depending on length and watch duration. Video is the heaviest content type a website serves and can consume a hosting plan's bandwidth allowance faster than any other resource.
- External Video Hosting
- A method of embedding video on a website where the video file is served from a third-party platform's servers rather than the website's own hosting plan. Because the bandwidth cost sits with the video host (such as SuperMoo, Vimeo, or YouTube) rather than the website host (such as Webflow), this approach prevents video traffic from counting against the website's bandwidth allowance.
- Core Web Vitals
- A set of performance metrics defined by Google that measure real-world user experience on web pages, including loading speed, responsiveness, and visual stability. Heavy video embeds can negatively affect Core Web Vitals scores, which in turn affects search rankings and conversion rates.
SuperMoo insights
- We built SuperMoo because our Webflow agency kept hitting the same wall. Clients would ask for a hero video, we'd build it beautifully, and three months later the bandwidth bills would creep up. The Webflow May 2026 update just made that wall taller. Cutting included bandwidth in half is fine if your site is static text, but the moment you add video, you're sprinting toward an add-on charge. We see this pattern monthly on agency client sites, and the fix is almost always the same: move video off the Webflow plan.
- The page speed angle is the part agencies underestimate. We've A/B tested Webflow-hosted MP4s against SuperMoo embeds on identical pages, and the SuperMoo version consistently scores 20 to 35 points higher on mobile PageSpeed. That's not marginal. For client sites that compete on local SEO or AEO visibility, that score difference moves rankings within weeks. The bandwidth saving is the obvious win. The ranking lift is the one that pays for itself many times over.
It's not just about saving money
Moving video off Webflow does something else, something that adds up over time.
Your pages get faster.
Hosted video on a CMS plan loads slowly. The player is heavy. The video file itself is large. Your PageSpeed score takes a hit, and so does your Core Web Vitals rating.
SuperMoo serves video around 3x faster than Vimeo, Wistia, or self-hosted video. The player is light. The encoding adapts to whatever device and connection your visitor is on. Your pages load faster, full stop.
A faster site climbs higher in Google (page speed is a confirmed ranking factor), holds onto visitors for longer, and converts more of them. Mobile users especially notice the difference.
You dodge Webflow's bandwidth fees. You also end up with a faster, better website. Two wins from one switch.
What should you do next?
If you have video on your Webflow site, you've got two options before your plan changes hit.
- Pay for bandwidth add-ons every month, forever
- Move your video to a host that doesn't eat your Webflow bandwidth
Option 2 takes about an hour. You upload your videos to SuperMoo, swap the embed code on your Webflow site, and you're done. No design changes. No code rewrites. The player matches your brand, not ours.
And your Webflow bill goes back to what it was before May.
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