Webflow vs. WordPress VIP

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Webflow
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Webflow is a Website Experience Platform for modern marketing teams, used to visually build, manage, and optimize websites that offer both the consumer experience teams expect and enterprise-grade performance and scale.
$18
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
WebflowWordPress VIP
Editions & Modules
Basic
$18
per month
CMS
$29
per month
Ecommerce - Standard
$42
per month
Business
$49
per month
Ecommerce - Plus
$84
per month
Ecommerce - Advanced
$235
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
WebflowWordPress VIP
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsUp to a 22% discount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
WebflowWordPress VIP
Features
WebflowWordPress VIP
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Webflow
7.1
Ratings
13% below category average
WordPress VIP
7.3
Ratings
10% below category average
Role-based user permissions7.10 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Webflow
7.0
Ratings
8% below category average
WordPress VIP
7.3
Ratings
4% below category average
API7.00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language7.00 Ratings5.50 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Webflow
9.3
Ratings
19% above category average
WordPress VIP
8.2
Ratings
6% above category average
WYSIWYG editor10.00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness10.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Admin section10.00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Page templates10.00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Library of website themes10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design10.00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Publishing workflow9.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Form generator5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Webflow
7.9
Ratings
7% above category average
WordPress VIP
8.0
Ratings
8% above category average
Content taxonomy8.60 Ratings7.30 Ratings
SEO support9.80 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Bulk management7.10 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Community / comment management6.00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
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User Ratings
WebflowWordPress VIP
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(0 ratings)
8.7
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Availability
1.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
1.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.5
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
1.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
WebflowWordPress VIP
Likelihood to Recommend
The good outweighs the bad. I love how my webpage works, and it fulfills everything that I was trying to accomplish. The ability to tag and distribute content across the site saves a lot of time and energy. I just wish that custom elements were easier to reuse across pages and that it weren't so hard to figure out. This tool is better suited for someone who knows what they are doing, rather than a beginner.
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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
  • Easy to use and customize CMS.
  • Develop engaging CSS interactions and JavaScript animations visually.
  • Several competitively priced hosting tiers are available and all use AWS servers and Fastly CDN.
  • Code can be exported to be used with other CMS platforms such as WordPress, or E-Commerce platforms such as Shopify.
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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
  • The Content Management System needs improvement. In my experience, it's very difficult to organise all our content at big volumes. We want to create a resources section where we can categorize our content but there isn't an easy or intuitive way to do it
  • In my opinion, it's incredibly difficult to create tables in an article
  • You have to do custom coding for anchor links within an article and it's time consuming and, in my opinion, super annoying
  • Website designs are not responsive we need to keep designing a separate mobile version
  • In my opinion, Formatting content in articles is annoying compared to other CMSs like Wordpress, Shopify, Wix, Blogger, etc. Worst experience I've had.
  • Changes to the nav bar on the homepage do not reflect universally, we needed to do the same changes all over again for our blog and mobile
  • Content editors need to keep logging in every time they add content
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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
It's the perfect balance of GUI and code control
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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
With a little education, I find Webflow incredibly easy to use. As previously mentioned, the Webflow University video library is amazing so anything you need help with is already available. That said, I do feel like it is a relatively steep learning curve and would be even steeper for someone who is completely new to Web Development, which is why I gave it the score I did.
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There is documentation for everything you might need.
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Reliability and Availability
In my experience, their customer service is an absolute joke, I tried reaching out to them they took forever. I had to keep following up with them as if they never received it in the first place. It’s a new platform, so guidance is needed. Tried the university they offer, in my opinion, it is completely useless, I would just completely move on from this website.
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Performance
In my opinion, it is horrible, the rendering takes forever. I have the newest MacBook and the platform will still lag and slow down on me. I’m not a developer, I am a designer which makes it worst because I am using the features they are providing not extra coding features. In my opinion, it is a horrible platform really, stay away.
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Support Rating
I haven't had to engage them from a support perspective; however, there is a considerable user community for tips/ideas/troubleshooting and the like. I believe the Pro plan supports additional resources but we didn't find that the cost justified the outcome. Overall the need for support has been relatively minor.
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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
So, Webflow gave me the freedom that other platforms didn't in terms of not needing to code (in comparison to WordPress), and the site looks like a professional page rather than a generic average one, and then in terms of having more than just writing key findings (in comparison to medium) like a site that feels unique and sophisticated. Finally, all in all, Webflow is harder at start but the results are eye pleasing and its totally worth the time.
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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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Scalability
I feel it doesn’t perform the way it’s supposed to and it doesn’t have any beneficial factors to it. In my opinion, there is no reason to use a platform like this when Wix and Shopify, and WordPress exist. I believe Webflow is a platform that shouldn’t exist and it’s only popular because of the hype it received. I tried it and hate it completely.
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Return on Investment
  • Work quality output has improved as Webflow helps bridge the gap between design and development.
  • Lower overall development costs mean more client budget can be allocated to strategy and creative.
  • Faster turnarounds result in shorter billing cycles, which improve agency cashflow.
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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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