Elementor vs. Netlify CMS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Elementor
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Elementor is a Wordpress page builder and creative toolkit featuring a drag and drop live editor, 100+ widgets, and tools to landing pages and popups.
$11.99
per month
Netlify CMS
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
Netlify CMS is an open source Git-based CMS for static site generators. it runs 100% in a browser.N/A
Pricing
ElementorNetlify CMS
Editions & Modules
Lite
$11.99
per month
Basic
$14.99
per month
Business
$24.99
per month
Grow
$32.99
per month
Expert
$149.00
per year
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ElementorNetlify CMS
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPrices reflect deployment via WordPress. Options are also available for use with WooCommerce. A discount is offered for annual billing.
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Community Pulse
ElementorNetlify CMS
Features
ElementorNetlify CMS
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Elementor
6.9
Ratings
16% below category average
Netlify CMS
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions6.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Elementor
3.0
Ratings
87% below category average
Netlify CMS
6.0
Ratings
23% below category average
API4.00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language2.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Elementor
7.9
Ratings
2% above category average
Netlify CMS
6.1
Ratings
23% below category average
WYSIWYG editor7.50 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.50 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Admin section9.50 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Page templates10.00 Ratings3.00 Ratings
Library of website themes9.00 Ratings1.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design6.90 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Publishing workflow8.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Form generator4.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Elementor
6.2
Ratings
17% below category average
Netlify CMS
4.3
Ratings
52% below category average
Content taxonomy7.70 Ratings7.00 Ratings
SEO support5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk management5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions6.20 Ratings2.00 Ratings
Community / comment management7.00 Ratings4.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
ElementorNetlify CMS
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
2.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ElementorNetlify CMS
Likelihood to Recommend
I would recommend this for the ease of use and price. It is a good value for any website developer or designer to be able to create multiple websites a year with super simple coding. If you've got a way to speed up your website without using WP Rocket, then it's even better! I think this software is specifically made for someone with a coding background and would recommend that you have a background with Wordpress to make using this software even easier
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Netlify CMS is well suited when you have very less frequent updates to your content, maybe once a day and very few people need to access your data. You can connect it to Netlify, GitHub, or any platform and have multiple people access it and do as many updates as you wish, but the process is not well-defined and you need to build your own system for that. It is well suited for projects you need to pull off with very low cost, it is essentially free as the software is open source and free to use, and all you need to do is set up your schema correctly and find a deployment pipeline where you can build your static site/API to redeploy whenever the content changes. I personally used a GitHub Login -> Netlify CMS -> next app consumer of content -> GitHub pipelines to run next SSG -> GitHub Pages to deploy the built static site. It might not be appropriate for large teams where users themselves need no-code tools to modify the schema of the content.
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Pros
  • Theme builder (header, footer, site parts)
  • Forms, with options for what to do with form submissions after they've been submitted (email, collect , push to EMS)
  • Easy to use widgets for things that would otherwise need coding manually (sliders, carousels, flip boxes etc.)
  • Pre-built templates
  • Dynamic conditions for content display
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  • Storing content data in customized schema without a database
  • Full control over your content and infrastructure where it is deployed and stored
  • Very low-cost way for building your own CMS and CDN
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Cons
  • Could definitely use an AI bot for ad-hoc customer queries
  • Very limited Wdgets available in free version - If you have complex pages, go pro
  • Ensure robust internet speed (50 MBPS bare minimum) to be able to operate it. Below 8 GB RAM is not advised
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  • Linking between different schema types, i.e. having some relations between content
  • Better ways to define content schema, like how TinaCMS would handle using a JSON
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Likelihood to Renew
Elementor is critical to our ongoing success and providing our clients with world-class websites
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Usability
Elementor is one of those website builders that is really easy to get started with. The drag and drop features make it easy to create attractive and creative webpages for even the non-website designer. Some of the features available are not easy to find or easy to discover when you first start using Elementor. Practice makes perfect.
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Support Rating
There support is slow and at times can be frustrating and this is why many prefer to air out their frustrations within the Facebook group community. I tend to give up as when I'm working on something and something goes wrong I need the help straight away. I do not have the patience to wait anymore.
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Implementation Rating
The business team has to stick to its core competencies - Our key turning point occured when we delegated webpage design challenges to a tech. firm with specific mandates (including a certain degree of internal control). Once the initial go-live was completed, the agency trained us on internalizing ad-hoc and tactical change work
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Alternatives Considered
Compared to other providers, Elementor can be easy to use and learn, allowing you to build professional websites in a fraction of the time it takes to build websites with other sites. The AI feature can help non-tech people to easily understand and build a website that is SEO and Google search compliant.
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We really can't compare it to full-fledged CMS software, like WordPress, which has a lot of community and support with widgets, plugins, and whatnot. It's not built for that, but you can compare it to Contentful, Ghost, Strapi, etc., which provide similar functionality to a headless CMS with custom schema options, but even among them, it still lacks a lot of functionality, ease of use, and support. But Netlify CMS pros would be of the opinion that compared to other platforms where most schemas need to use their own tools and frameworks, it's very cost-effective. Something new called TinaCMS has come up to compete with Netlify CMS by covering most of its shortcomings, but it's something new being built by the same team that built Forestry CMS and comes with many modern features, yet currently only supports NextJS SSG.
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Return on Investment
  • Our sales have really grown over the past five years of using Elementor. We went from fulfilling less than five orders a month to now 10-15 per months. And we are a small bulk food store with a small audience.
  • We have been able to add plug ins along with Elementor to customize our products, store, and pages.
  • We haven't done as much with SEO and Elementor. I feel like this is one area that we could probably do better.
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  • Helped us inject dynamic content into existing site very quickly
  • Wasted a lot of time to implement when something complex, such as querying content, was needed
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