Duda vs. Squarespace

Duda

Squarespace

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Duda	Score 9.0 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
Squarespace	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	Squarespace is a CMS platform that allows users to create a DIY blog, eCommerce store, and/or portfolio (visual art or music). Some Squarespace website and shop templates are industry or use case-specific, such as menu builders for restaurant sites.	$25 per month

Pricing

Duda

Squarespace

Editions & Modules

Basic: $25
per month
Team: $39
per month
Agency: $69
per month
White Label: $199
per month
Custom: Contact Sales

Basic: $25
per month
Core: $36
per month
Plus: $56
per month
Advanced: $139
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Duda	Squarespace
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

25% discount available for annual pricing.

28% to 36% discount available for annual pricing.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Duda	Squarespace
Considered Both Products	Duda Verified User Anonymous Chose Duda WordPress, Wix, Square Online and Odoo Incentivized Helpful? NP Nicholas Parker Project Manager Chose Duda When comparing WIX to Duda, Duda is a breeze. Duda is better in every aspect I can think of from customizing, designing, to hosting. I am proud to use Duda as our website builder, we have built well over 200 different sites on Duda. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Duda Really good visual editor. Easy to use, predesigned templates and sections that are easy to add and update. White labeling for previewing sites with clients. Incentivized Helpful? Sarah Hokuf Owner Chose Duda 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Duda I can't speak to why my agency selected Duda, but I can say from personal experience that building a website in Duda is much easier, and backed by better support than any other website builder I've used. Duda allows me, as a web designer, to still create great looking and unique … Incentivized Helpful? Alicia Gonzalez CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Chose Duda WordPress, Shopify and Shopify Plus Incentivized Helpful? Ruan M. Marinho Owner Chose Duda Duda is miles ahead, the competitors are all trying to steal their marketshare. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Duda Much easier for non-tech team members to work on building and maintaining websites. Previous Adobe-based websites clients have been very happy with Duda. Overall, clients can do a lot more on their own, if they choose, than with other website platforms we have used, or that … Incentivized Helpful?	Squarespace BM Brittany Mathiowetz Creative Consultant Chose Squarespace Each website platform has a place. Squarespace is great for simple informative websites, especially small or local businesses that are not ecommerce. Shopify is the leader for ecommerce website. Wordpress is my favorite for website that need more features and flexability. My … Incentivized Helpful? AC Ashley Clagett Director of IT Chose Squarespace We used Squarespace simply because it had the domains available that other providers said were already taken. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Squarespace is more user-friendly and sleek. I'd recommend it over Freenom for beginners and those who are more interested in running a website (instead of caring about their DNS). Incentivized Helpful? Caitlin Sloan Founder & CEO Chose Squarespace I like Squarespace better if you are starting from scratch. I was able to use Wordpress when it was an existing site and I just had to make updates, but would have a difficult time starting from the beginning and building a Wordpress site. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Blackbaud DonorCentral, Donorbox, Alaya by Benevity, Intuit Mailchimp, monday CRM and monday.com Incentivized Helpful? TN Tyler Newman Marketing Director Chose Squarespace In my opinion, Squarespace beats Wix all day. We have used both for microsite development. We use Wordpress for our main site as the featureset is open source and is considered the industry best practice. You can do a lot more specific features with WordPress that are sometimes … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace None. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Squarespace if much less work than WordPress, plus hosting and security are not an issue. GoDaddy and Wix are okay, but nowhere near the flexibility or advanced feature set that you can get with Squarespace. Compared to the other products that I have used, Squarespace … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace We picked Squarespace for a specific use case because it was easy to spin up the promotional content we needed. Incentivized Helpful? Maria Halse Duloquin Innovation Consultant Chose Squarespace Squarespace is easy to use, webflow can feel clunky (though I haven’t tried it recently), and Wix is very similar, but I preferred the Squarespace aesthetic. Also, Squarespace has clear, transparent pricing - you know what you get, and I like the design styles. I’m not in a … Incentivized Helpful? BG Bryan Grant Head of Product & Portfolio Management Chose Squarespace Squarespace was the quickest to get up and running for a basic website, and with the GoDaddy integration it simplified rapid setup. A plugin for basic language translation allowed us to be compliant from day one. Incentivized Helpful? JM Jeff Montgomery CTO Chose Squarespace Squarespace was quicker to set up and more accessible to manipulate the theme, pictures, and content. The page layouts are more versatile and fluid. With Wordpress, more time-consuming efforts go into making a template work the way you want it to (because of the lack of the … Incentivized Helpful? PL Phoebe Little Promotions and Programs Associate Chose Squarespace Submittable and Squarespace serve different functions but Squarespace is by far the easier and more user friendly platform. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Wordpress is for more advanced users and allows more functionality to be built into the website. However, Squarespace is easy to use and you will be able to get a functioning website up and running on your own. That is their main point and purpose for their mission. However, … Incentivized Helpful? Andy Ryan Launch Engineer Chose Squarespace I would choose Squarespace over all the competition unless I wanted a website builder/host that had an online course portal. Squarespace has the easiest website builder. It's relatively cheap. It automatically updates. It is easy to integrate with third-party services such as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Elementor and Shopify Incentivized Helpful? Lisa Cooley Art Advisor Chose Squarespace Both of my fields are visual, so design is as important as functionality. Unbounce looks great, but it's not set up for the same full functionality. I've also been quite familiar with Squarespace and felt comfortable with them. Incentivized Helpful? Shawn Dehner Owner Chose Squarespace Not even comparable. I was hacked within 2 years with WordPress in a brute force attack. Since going to Squarespace, I have had zero security issues. I feel the two platforms, though similar, are incomparable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace I found it easier for me to use square space myself rather than have a middle person between me and my website. It was a lot easier for me to access and change something and when I wanted to change something on my site. It gave me flexibility and more options to utilize my … Incentivized Helpful? Nicole Nagy Product Designer Chose Squarespace I didn't evaluate any other platforms because I knew Squarespace was the best. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Squarespace's most attractive feature in comparison to WordPress and Wix is its library of themes available to use. WordPress has a neverending supply of options but that's WordPress, the industry-standard however the limited options for Squarespace is nice so you aren't … Incentivized Helpful? Darcy Knapp, MBA Owner/President Chose Squarespace Squarespace offers better SEO options and ease of use than Wix/Weebly site builders. Squarespace is easy to manage and easy to track inventory and sales. For companies with lower skill sets in-house, it is also very easy to train staff to manage the platform. Incentivized Helpful? MG Meadow Griffin Author/Illustrator Chose Squarespace I liked the usability of Squarespace better than Network Solutions for the type of website we were looking for. I found it was easier to create and customize and I liked the overall look of the website in Squarespace better than what the end result of the Network Solutions site … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Myself and my team have used more robust web development platforms for bigger organization presence on the web. However that has always required more time, effort and talent by using web developers to setup and add content to the sites. With squarespace, a site can be setup in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Squarespace Squarespace is the best option relative to other web hosting and design platforms we initially reviewed. It was a bit more expensive than some of the free models we looked at but those sites often came with hidden fees if we wanted to customize anything and Squarespace has … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Duda

Squarespace

Security

Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
	Duda 8.6 Ratings 5% above category average	Squarespace 8.3 Ratings 1% above category average
Role-based user permissions	8.60 Ratings	8.30 Ratings

Platform & Infrastructure

Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
	Duda 9.2 Ratings 17% above category average	Squarespace 6.6 Ratings 16% below category average
API	9.00 Ratings	7.10 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language	9.30 Ratings	6.10 Ratings

Web Content Creation

Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
	Duda 8.8 Ratings 12% above category average	Squarespace 7.6 Ratings 3% below category average
WYSIWYG editor	9.00 Ratings	9.20 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness	9.30 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Admin section	9.00 Ratings	7.40 Ratings
Page templates	8.80 Ratings	7.20 Ratings
Library of website themes	9.00 Ratings	7.40 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design	8.20 Ratings	8.10 Ratings
Publishing workflow	8.80 Ratings	8.30 Ratings
Form generator	8.00 Ratings	6.60 Ratings

Web Content Management

Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
	Duda 7.7 Ratings 3% above category average	Squarespace 6.1 Ratings 20% below category average
Content taxonomy	7.40 Ratings	7.30 Ratings
SEO support	8.60 Ratings	6.40 Ratings
Bulk management	6.80 Ratings	5.80 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions	7.20 Ratings	5.50 Ratings
Community / comment management	8.30 Ratings	5.70 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Duda	Squarespace
Small Businesses	ManageWP Score 10.0 out of 10	ManageWP Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Duda	Squarespace
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	8.6 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Duda	Squarespace
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We've found Squarespace perfect for quick, well-designed websites that you can literally design and launch in a day. However, if you want to get more complex with your website, including custom backend integrations or code, Squarespace presents a bit more of a challenge when it comes to what they will allow you to modify on their platform (especially using third-party integration apps). Incentivized JM Jeff Montgomery CTO Read full review
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. Alicia Gonzalez CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Read full review	Squarespace is very easy to use, this is a super helpful thing as small business owners we have to wear many hats and being a full blown website developer doesn't need to be one of them. Squarespace has quick and simple plugins. Squarespace allows you to easily expand as you need to. Incentivized MM Megan Murray Owner Read full review
Cons	Ecommerce can use some improvement--but this should be taken care of in 2023 A more robust app marketplace More custom widgets Nat G. Rosasco Principal Read full review	Customizing the sites can be highly UN intuitive Navigation for editing the sites can be difficult and frustrating Squarespace has different versions and it's hard to know which version you're on. You can't switch after you start making a site with one version. Incentivized Lisa Cooley Art Advisor Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	It's a great CMS tool. Easy to use and maintain. It looks great and the support is excellent. Incentivized Sharon Reaves Owner/Founder/Design Guru Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It's dead simple to use. There are no over complicated controls or tons of menus to screw things up. People with bad taste couldn't make an ugly website. While it may be frustrating for the pro designer to get exactly what they want, it prevents the uninitiated from making something ugly Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Help is available directly from the back end and uses full sentence searching to find answers to questions others may have asked before. With a ton of articles and support questions documents, it is very likely that your question has been answered. If not each page has the ability to open a direct email to support. Each case has a number and can be followed. Responses are often quick and have links and directions clearly stated Incentivized Angela Skees Director of Graphics and Marketing Read full review
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. Incentivized Sarah Hokuf Owner Read full review	Squarespace if much less work than WordPress, plus hosting and security are not an issue. GoDaddy and Wix are okay, but nowhere near the flexibility or advanced feature set that you can get with Squarespace. Compared to the other products that I have used, Squarespace definitely offers more options, customization, advanced features and design options than others, for a great price. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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 Incentivized NP Nicholas Parker Project Manager Read full review	I can see how squarespace can improve efficiency since it's so quick to build a site on there. For those who don't want to hook up a bunch of different stuff to their website and make it work...they most likely have whatever plug in you need and you can add it. Worst case scenario, they have developers you can hire who can make what you need. As your business grows you can add an online storefront to your site and make more money that way! Easy peasy! They have an easy system for adding special SEO words/phrases so you don't have to learn SEO at all! Incentivized IS Isabel Sam Owner Read full review
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