Should I Publish With Relume or Export to Figma, Webflow, or React?

Choose Publish with Relume if you want a simple marketing site live quickly and don't need to maintain it in another tool—Relume handles hosting, custom domain, and SSL, and the site keeps improving after launch. Choose Export if your team or client needs the design or code in Figma, Webflow, or React for further editing, handoff, or integration with an existing stack. Both paths start from the same component system, so the decision is about where the site lives and who maintains it, not about starting over.

The shared foundation: one component system

Relume assembles sites from human-built components rather than generating raw code. The site describes this as "the component system behind 2 million websites," with the AI selecting from components designers built and maintain, then assembling them into your site. The claimed result is responsive, accessible, and SEO/AEO-ready output "by construction, not by luck," with no hallucinated layouts.

This matters for the decision because switching paths doesn't mean rebuilding from scratch. The same components feed both Publish and Export, so you can pick based on workflow and still recognize the output.

Publish with Relume: fastest route to a live site

Publish is aimed at simple marketing sites. Per the site, you drop in an old website, a document, or a few notes, and the AI turns it into a marketing site "you'd actually publish." The flow is brief-to-live-site in one flow, with custom domain and SSL handled.

What you get on this path:

• One-click go-live with hosting on Relume
• Custom domain and SSL managed for you
• Global edge network with sub-second load times on a global CDN
• Enterprise security — SSL, DDoS protection, and SOC 2 compliance pending
• 99.99% uptime SLO with auto-scaling for traffic spikes
• Post-launch improvement — the site says components are refined across thousands of sites, and when something stronger surfaces, every site gets it

The trade-off: the site lives on Relume's platform. If a client or team needs the design files or source code elsewhere, this path doesn't provide that.

Export: take the work into your own tools

Export is for teams that need the site in Figma, Webflow, or React—or want to pull components into AI tools via the Relume Library MCP. You choose from 1,000+ responsive components to build a complete site, then export.

The trade-off: you own hosting, deployment, and ongoing maintenance in the target tool. The post-launch component improvements described for Publish don't automatically apply to an exported site.

How to decide

Use these questions to pick a path:

1. Does the site need to live in an existing stack? If a client's site must run in Webflow, or your product team needs React components, export. If not, Publish is simpler.
2. Who maintains it after launch? Publish keeps maintenance on Relume's side and lets the site improve automatically. Export puts maintenance on you or your team.
3. Do you need editable design files? If designers will iterate in Figma, export to Figma gives editable auto-layout with real variables and variants. Publish doesn't serve that need.
4. Is speed to launch the priority? For a simple marketing site with no downstream tool requirements, Publish's one-flow brief-to-live-site process is the shorter route.

A practical middle ground: build in Relume, publish a first version to validate messaging, and export later if the project grows into a stack that needs Figma, Webflow, or React. Because both paths share the component system, the work carries over.

Getting started

Both paths begin the same way: start for free, drop in your old site, a document, or notes, and let the AI assemble a draft. From there, choose Publish to launch on Relume or Export to move into Figma, Webflow, or React. Pricing and plan details are listed on Relume's pricing page; check there for current terms before committing to a paid plan.