Duda vs. WordPress VIP

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Duda
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Duda, the eponymous platform from the company in Palo Alto, is a web design platform for companies that offer web design services to small businesses. The company serves customers from freelance web professionals to digital agencies, all the way up to the large hosting companies, SaaS platforms and online publishers.
$25
per month
WordPress VIP
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Wordpress VIP, from a team at Automattic, is enterprise WordPress hosting with customer or digital experience features for enterprises.N/A
Pricing
DudaWordPress VIP
Editions & Modules
Basic
$25
per month
Team
$39
per month
Agency
$69
per month
White Label
$199
per month
Custom
Contact Sales
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DudaWordPress VIP
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details25% discount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
DudaWordPress VIP
Features
DudaWordPress VIP
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.9
Ratings
10% above category average
WordPress VIP
7.3
Ratings
10% below category average
Role-based user permissions8.90 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.6
Ratings
13% above category average
WordPress VIP
7.3
Ratings
4% below category average
API9.10 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language8.10 Ratings5.50 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.8
Ratings
13% above category average
WordPress VIP
8.2
Ratings
6% above category average
WYSIWYG editor9.10 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.90 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Admin section9.30 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Page templates7.90 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Library of website themes8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design9.30 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Publishing workflow9.30 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Form generator8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.6
Ratings
16% above category average
WordPress VIP
8.0
Ratings
8% above category average
Content taxonomy8.70 Ratings7.30 Ratings
SEO support8.60 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Bulk management8.60 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.20 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Community / comment management8.80 Ratings9.10 Ratings
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DudaWordPress VIP
Small Businesses
ManageWP
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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ManageWP
Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
RWS Tridion Sites
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
DudaWordPress VIP
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(0 ratings)
8.7
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
DudaWordPress VIP
Likelihood to Recommend
Duda is great for small to medium sized websites building, where some level of animation is ok and mostly for presenting online information, and its SEO performance is very good then. But for very large or heavily interactive websites it may not be the best choice.
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WordPress VIP really changed the game when it comes to WordPress CMS and Content Management. A one-stop shop for all our client's business needs. We are focusing on Content Management instead of technicalities. The big advantage is the security features covering all recent vulnerabilities that any WordPress developer/user wastes lots of precious time fixing/updating. Performance-wise, WordPress VIP is definitely up there. We’ve been doing lots of optimization work over the last few years. Every client wants to score 100. With WordPress VIP we decreased the time spent on optimization significantly and now feel confident with taking more performance optimisation work than we did before. Lastly, maybe the most important for every business is the support quality. WordPress VIP runs a superb support team with phenomenal knowledge and expertise. Quick to respond and solves issues here and now. It is definitely recommended.
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Pros
  • Ongoing Education for agencies and users. Anton has done what he does best and turned Duda into a go-to-source for information, ideas, and practical implementation.
  • UX - The ability to create simple yet highly customizable sites.
  • Speed - Sites take much less time to build and maintain, allowing agencies to scale and business owners to spend more time on growing their core revenue channels.
  • Reliability - From technical reliability, reduced down-time to support, Duda is a reliability option.
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  • Email support is more than enough! They are quick and always responsive even when there are urgent problems.
  • Manages our WordPress codebase for security patches and updates rather well.
  • Their partnership with our development team has helped us be hands-off with confidence when it comes to fixing any bugs.
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Cons
  • Ecommerce can use some improvement--but this should be taken care of in 2023
  • A more robust app marketplace
  • More custom widgets
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  • Too many different dashboard formats
  • Everything should have the same look and feel.
  • The admin portal looks different than the user content portal
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Likelihood to Renew
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It's true enterprise ready hosting framework providing unparalleled hosting infrastructure for WordPress. Where an organisation has high load needs, but with stability and scale VIP delivers. It provides complete peace of mind that the hosting, security and scalability are taken care of and organisations can focus on developing out their website strategies
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Usability
Upon using the builder for the first time, I found Duda to be extremely intuitive and easy to figure out, but also has a high skill-ceiling. After 5 years of building in the drag-and-drop builder, I continue to teach myself new tricks and methods to continually improve my process and design capabilities within the platform. I've built dozens of Duda sites and each one is better than the last.
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There is documentation for everything you might need.
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
There wasn't a single problem that wouldn't be solved by the WordPress VIP support team, and I had quite a few questions during the process. They were always available and provided in-depth expertise on topics I was interested in. I not only consulted problems with them but also advised on future actions - in general, I'd highly recommend getting in touch.
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Alternatives Considered
Duda lets me customize the entire page. With Squarespace, many of the templates were limiting on editing the header and footer. Also in the past, I couldn't change the page title and page header to be different in Squarespace. This was not good for SEO. Wix is good but also a little bulky and glitchy.
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It would be fair to say that both are superb products that follow through on promises and have very strong marketing and teams behind them. For truly enterprise organisations though, one would be tempted to recommend WordPress VIP at this moment in time, but one to keep an eye on, Engine, is extremely capable.
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Return on Investment
  • Duda has allowed our team to function quicker
  • Duda has allowed us to have more clients
  • Our clients are happier with their sites now
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  • By migrating our mobile applications to Wordpress's APIs, we could remove a large portion of our technical infrastructure, which was hosted on Google Cloud, along with an additional database and a lot of business logic used to support data transformation and ingestion.
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