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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Duda

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ADuda, 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

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASquarespace 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
    DudaSquarespace
    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
    DudaSquarespace
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details25% discount available for annual pricing.28% to 36% discount available for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    DudaSquarespace
    Considered Both Products
    Duda
    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
    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
    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
    Chose Duda
    Duda is miles ahead, the competitors are all trying to steal their marketshare.
    Incentivized
    Squarespace
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    35 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    35 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    34 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    31 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    33 Answers
    Features
    DudaSquarespace
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Duda and Squarespace
    Feature
    Duda
    8.6
    9 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Squarespace
    8.4
    67 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Role-based user permissions8.69 Ratings8.467 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Duda and Squarespace
    Feature
    Duda
    9.2
    8 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Squarespace
    6.6
    58 Ratings
    17% below category average
    API9.07 Ratings7.051 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language9.37 Ratings6.237 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Duda and Squarespace
    Feature
    Duda
    8.8
    9 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Squarespace
    7.5
    99 Ratings
    4% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor9.09 Ratings9.284 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness9.38 Ratings6.678 Ratings
    Admin section9.09 Ratings7.398 Ratings
    Page templates8.89 Ratings7.099 Ratings
    Library of website themes9.09 Ratings7.196 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design8.29 Ratings8.195 Ratings
    Publishing workflow8.88 Ratings8.386 Ratings
    Form generator8.08 Ratings6.580 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Duda and Squarespace
    Feature
    Duda
    7.7
    9 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Squarespace
    6.1
    89 Ratings
    21% below category average
    Content taxonomy7.49 Ratings7.376 Ratings
    SEO support8.69 Ratings6.380 Ratings
    Bulk management6.88 Ratings5.851 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.29 Ratings5.565 Ratings
    Community / comment management8.37 Ratings5.467 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    DudaSquarespace
    Small Businesses
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Square Online
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Square Online
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DudaSquarespace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    8.6
    (100 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.5
    (14 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DudaSquarespace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Duda
    Duda is great for agencies. There is a good client management area. It's even good for small businesses. They can choose a template and build out their own site. It's easy to customizes a website from a barebones template. There are many customizations in the each widget. The pricing is good for all size businesses. There is no tech headache with updates and backups.
    Incentivized
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    Squarespace
    Squarespace is one of the best solutions out there for building a website or web experience that looks good, has great functionality and is cost-effective, even for smaller businesses. Although most people in marketing will find most of the elements intuitive, if the creator is struggling with any of the functionality, there are many, many support options and other users who can offer assistance.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Duda
    • Very easy to learn and master
    • Builds beautiful, feature rich and easy to maintain cool websites
    • Provides an efficient management platform for agencies
    • Has a very good and responsive support team
    • Is continually expanding features and new add-on partners
    Incentivized
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    Squarespace
    • Stupid simple to use. I know very creative people who cannot code and this is probably the easiest ever platform for them!
    • Pretty website templates and great functionality with showing off portfolios.
    • They've already figured out what are the problems that non-coding people have when creating websites and they've figured out a simple solution for all of it.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Duda
    • Ecommerce can use some improvement--but this should be taken care of in 2023
    • A more robust app marketplace
    • More custom widgets
    Read full review
    Squarespace
    • 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
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Duda
    No answers on this topic
    Squarespace
    Unless our website requires significantly more functionality in the future, I can't see us terminating our contract
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Duda
    Again, this platform has to be one of the easiest web development sites I have ever used in my life. From creating pages to linking buttons, hiding pages, and more, it makes it so much easier to develop websites for clients, including forms and custom membership login portals. It really is the best.
    Incentivized
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    Squarespace
    It's simple to use for someone who is really good with computers as well as those who are not. I've been using my personal squarespace for years and have also helped clients build a starting page which they are later able to manage theirselves.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Duda
    No answers on this topic
    Squarespace
    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
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    Alternatives Considered
    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 websites. I find that other platforms, while they may provide nice templates, make it very difficult to deviate from the guardrails they put in place. Through the years, even the most basic site that I've built in Duda is significantly better than those built in other platforms
    Incentivized
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    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 drag-and-drop grids that Squarespace has).
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Duda
    • Much faster project turnaround
    • Easy for non-tech staff to handle some of the work
    • Costs are lower than we were paying for less capabilities before we switched to Duda
    Incentivized
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    Squarespace
    • The cost is reasonably decent. My client says they spent about $20 a month or $240 a year. I asked her if she could add Google AdSense to her blog one day, and they believe they can. They said a custom site would cost them $3000-10,000 depending on who does it. And I agreed, but I found the website they created was on the lower end of that range.
    Incentivized
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