ASP.NET vs. Progress Kendo UI

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ASP.NET
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
N/AN/A
Progress Kendo UI
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Kendo UI is a JavaScript UI toolkit that allows users to build responsive web-based apps integrated into their framework of choice (jQuery, Angular, React, or Vue). The vendor’s value proposition is that Kendo UI offers a large library of popular and configurable components ranging from sophisticated grids and charts to basic buttons, so users don’t have to waste development time building their UI. The vendor also says the large library of customizable themes means users can easily deploy a…
$999
per developer, royalty-free
Pricing
ASP.NETProgress Kendo UI
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Kendo UI with Priority Support
$999
per developer, royalty-free
DevCraft UI
$1,299
per developer, royalty-free
DevCraft Complete
$1,499
per developer, royalty-free
DevCraft Ultimate
$2,199
per developer, royalty-free
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ASP.NETProgress Kendo UI
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
ASP.NETProgress Kendo UI
Considered Both Products
ASP.NET
Chose ASP.NET
Compared to plain HTML/CSS/JS, ASP.Net adds many productivity tools and frameworks that allow for more rapid and robust development.
Progress Kendo UI
Chose Progress Kendo UI
One of our partner companies is using Kendo UI for jQuery. In order to exploit synergies with our partner we selected Telerik Kendo UI for jQuery. Other selection criterias were a) the longevity of Telerik, b) the Support, c) the Performance and d) the scalability.
Chose Progress Kendo UI
We have tried Component One's stuff as well as jQuery UI. Component One is good for their grids, but it is easy to get behind with them. jQuery UI just looks stodgy. We also looked at EXT for a bit, but it was too proprietary.

I have worked with Angular Material and Bootstrap …
Chose Progress Kendo UI
The Kendo UI controls are more professional in appearance, better documented and simpler to integrate into our software applications. It takes us less time to implement the Kendo UI controls in our projects than comparable offerings from other vendors or open-source …
Chose Progress Kendo UI
When we purchased Kendo UI, it was Telerik, and it was much further ahead at that time than Syncfusion was. This is the main reason we opted for Kendo. The controls also looked much more polished that Syncfusion's controls did at that time--and they still do, in the current …
Chose Progress Kendo UI
Kendo is easy to set up and upgrade. It is easy to use for developers and we can make attractive UI, so it automatically increases business.
Kendo UI provides more control on UI fields as it has various properties associated with it. We can use the mask property for accepting …
Chose Progress Kendo UI
Liked Kendo so much and found it to be exactly what I needed and relatively easy to deploy, I didn't need to look elsewhere.
Chose Progress Kendo UI
Was not involved in the evaluation process however I am extremely happy with the tool that was selected.
Chose Progress Kendo UI
No other. Before Kendo I used various open source jquery plugins and Telerik's Ajax platform. Telerik's Ajax was a component for old asp.net forms. Jquery was alternative which was better connected with ASP.NET MVC pattern. But none of this framework provides functionality like …
Chose Progress Kendo UI
Kendo provides a more unified experience than piecing together JQuery components. Having a dozen or more JQuery widgets in your project, all maintained (or not) independently, is not ideal.

Wijmo seems competitive but I don't see a compelling reason to change. I took another …
Chose Progress Kendo UI
Kendo UI seemed not quite as feature-rich, but more mature than Syncfusion's products. I evaluated both products 3 years ago though, so things might have changed since then.
Chose Progress Kendo UI
Directly at the begging of Telerik, we choose Telerik as our main component solution. When Telerik added Kendo to the family of their products we made a decision to słowy move out from ASP.NET Ajax to Kendo UI. After a long time, we see that it was a very good decision and we …
Chose Progress Kendo UI
We use Telerik's Kendo UI for AJAX, MVC and jQuery. Now that we're venturing into Angular some colleagues want to use the Angular set of components.
Chose Progress Kendo UI
We selected Kendo UI because we were using Telerik controls already, and Kendo was included in our license. Other than that we have found the package mature enough to support our workflows which include some tricky scenarios: file upload, text editor, grids with grouping and …
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User Ratings
ASP.NETProgress Kendo UI
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(38 ratings)
8.2
(177 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.8
(21 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(38 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
7.5
(38 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(9 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
ASP.NETProgress Kendo UI
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Well suited: for interfaces between machines data and applications. Made as a service. For web applications in factories where you don't have access to thick clients due to the environment. not well suited: quick measurements and fast data transitions between different applications. When time dependency is needed, then you better can choose other solutions.
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Progress Software Corporation
It allows us to extend the components or create new components in an easy way. The control suite is complete and powerful enough that you do not need to consider other competing packages. The controls are relatively easy to implement and when we ran into problems the documentation and online support were very reliable.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • It has a great documentation so new or experienced, you appreciate quick access to quality information
  • It’s very fast, uses less memory than initially expected that has decreased our costs after moving from python
  • It speaks the language of the design patterns really well, so our backend apps are written fast together and connect to frontend systems flawlessly
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Progress Software Corporation
  • Kendo UI controls provides rich set of features and capability that is required for enterprise products.
  • Performance of controls are satisfactory overall though few other vendors provides extraordinary performance for specific controls and for specific purpose. Kendo UI provides most of the required controls and with rich feature that made us to select Kendo UI controls for our development.
  • Kendo UI controls quality, in terms of performance, robustness and well defined interfaces are very positive notes.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Net is just like plug and play, we have to focus on a logic of code rest part can be handled by ASP. Net framework.
  • It's a best for only web development.
  • One downside with ASP.NET is its reliance on the .NET framework.
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Progress Software Corporation
  • Kendo UI is always moving forward and staying current with latest development trends. While that is beneficial, that can cause some issues when supporting customers (particularly government) that don't move their IT infrastructure along nearly as fast. A prime example is web font icons. Great and easy to use, but where Kendo UI utilizes web font icons as the sole means of displaying an icon, not all organizations (again, especially government) allow the use of these. There have been times where Kendo UI became unusable and we had to downgrade to a version a few years old. Makes continued payment for licenses sometimes feel wasted as we may not be able to always use the new releases
  • Kendo UI has a wonderful feedback system and they do indeed listen to the community. However, there do seem to be some instances where there is large support for a new feature/component and it never gets addressed. It is easy to understand that not all ideas are easy or even prudent to implement, but would be nice to see a better follow-up on ideas with a current status
  • Refreshing Kendo UI grids is simple, yet the standard API method causes the grid to return to the default state. We have many use cases where we would love to update the grid data but need current grid state (such as expanded detail rows, sorts, filters, etc) preserved after the grid is updated so that users do not have to perform grid actions again to return to the desired state.
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
It is the backbone of all our products
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Progress Software Corporation
Nothing better has come along. I'm always on the lookout for new UI libraries and I have tried most of them. Kendo has done a good job of keeping my business. They aren't perfect, but no one has done it better as far as I can tell. I'll keep a look out and my rating may change in the future if they get complacent.
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Usability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Progress Software Corporation
it's easy to implement in applications. The kendo widgets are able to be used in almost any type of business application which has a UI. For most part, once the developer has completed a project which uses Kendo, many time code can be copy/paste into a new application. Kendo UI documentation keeps improving so finding the answers to questions can be easy
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Reliability and Availability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Progress Software Corporation
The errors that we have detected were not of great importance and the online support provided a temporary solution until the next release.
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Performance
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Progress Software Corporation
Reports sometimes take a bit of time to load
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Support Rating
Microsoft
Very good, depending on the requirement and budget.
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Progress Software Corporation
Overall, we are satisfied with the support offered by the Progress Kendo UI team. We had raised few helpline incidents in the past and they have been resolved timely by the team. Also, we were satisfied with the level of information and support provided by the team.
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Implementation Rating
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Progress Software Corporation
it took me about one day to make the components available for all the team members, including a quick demo, parallel setup in everyone’s workstation and packages deployment into our nuget server after 3 days of one to one support, everyone was able to use the components or find help in the documentation or resuest support
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
We choose ASP.NET because our core business is working with the SAP HANA database using SAP Business One. We can develop state-of-the-art applications with Razor and Visual Studio 2022 fast and with excellent application performance response. Working SAP Hana with JAVA could be more challenging because it has fewer developers communities, and it could be harder to find a solution for a question.
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Progress Software Corporation
At the time of our product selection we identified better cross-browser compatibility and we estimated that turnaround for support was superior. At the time, the vendor had a higher positive feedback footprint among their user community.
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Scalability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Progress Software Corporation
Never faced a problem even when we threw a large amount of data at it
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • We realized positive returns due to interns and new employees already having experience due to the free academic versions available.
  • Being able to evaluate the express version prior to purchase was helpful.
  • Performance is adequate, but not as responsive as C++. I guess the trade-off is ease of use and being able to find qualified personnel.
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Progress Software Corporation
  • Kendo UI has saved us a ton of time in development.
  • We were able to get certain things to market faster due to the fact that we didn't have to piece multiple libraries together like is so common with modern web development.
  • Because of the price of the library, however, we have not been able to purchase upgrades every year.
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ScreenShots

Progress Kendo UI Screenshots

Screenshot of Our extensive library provides you with the tools you need to easily control your app and display data in whatever format you need. Our advanced Sass Themebuilder lets you take any of our stock library themes and modify it to precisely match your brand requirements. Enhance your customer’s user experience with seamlessly integrated Kendo UI components.Screenshot of Easily create eye-catching and full-featured user interfaces by selecting from our rich library of components. Use advanced features like our grid component to create tables that display data in a wide range of formats from both local and remote sources.  We support popular frameworks like jQuery, Angular, React, Vue, and others so you can integrate our Kendo UI components into whatever environment you choose.Screenshot of Create rich dashboard applications by taking advantage of the breadth of UI widgets available within the Kendo UI toolset. Easily wire up the UI widgets to any existing RESTful API and backend to display any and all kind of data that you need to surface in your applications.Screenshot of Combine existing HTML elements and styling alongside with the Kendo UI components to create the exact kind of user interface that your users are requesting. The Kendo UI widgets can be dropped in to any existing application and be added widget-by-widget to ensure that adding the rich Kendo UI components can be done in a timely manner without disrupting existing app dev workflows.