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.
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Pricing
Duda
WordPress VIP
Editions & Modules
Basic
$25
per month
Team
$39
per month
Agency
$69
per month
White Label
$199
per month
Custom
Contact Sales
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Duda
WordPress VIP
Free Trial
Yes
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
25% discount available for annual pricing.
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Duda
WordPress VIP
Features
Duda
WordPress 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 permissions
8.90 Ratings
7.30 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
API
9.10 Ratings
9.10 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language
8.10 Ratings
5.50 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 editor
9.10 Ratings
9.10 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness
8.90 Ratings
7.30 Ratings
Admin section
9.30 Ratings
8.20 Ratings
Page templates
7.90 Ratings
8.20 Ratings
Library of website themes
8.30 Ratings
00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design
9.30 Ratings
9.10 Ratings
Publishing workflow
9.30 Ratings
7.30 Ratings
Form generator
8.50 Ratings
00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.