Duda vs. WordPress VIP

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting 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
WordPress VIP
Score 7.6 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
DudaWordPress VIP
Editions & Modules
Basic
$25
per month
Team
$39
per month
Agency
$69
per month
White Label
$199
per month
Custom
Contact Sales
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DudaWordPress VIP
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details25% discount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
DudaWordPress VIP
Features
DudaWordPress VIP
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.6
9 Ratings
4% above category average
WordPress VIP
7.3
2 Ratings
12% below category average
Role-based user permissions8.69 Ratings7.32 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Duda
9.2
8 Ratings
17% above category average
WordPress VIP
7.3
2 Ratings
6% below category average
API9.07 Ratings9.12 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language9.37 Ratings5.52 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.8
9 Ratings
13% above category average
WordPress VIP
8.2
2 Ratings
6% above category average
WYSIWYG editor9.09 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness9.38 Ratings7.32 Ratings
Admin section9.09 Ratings8.22 Ratings
Page templates8.89 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Library of website themes9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design8.29 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Publishing workflow8.88 Ratings7.32 Ratings
Form generator8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Duda
7.7
9 Ratings
4% above category average
WordPress VIP
8.0
2 Ratings
8% above category average
Content taxonomy7.49 Ratings7.31 Ratings
SEO support8.69 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Bulk management6.88 Ratings7.32 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions7.29 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Community / comment management8.37 Ratings9.12 Ratings
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
DudaWordPress VIP
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(9 ratings)
7.9
(22 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(5 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(21 ratings)
User Testimonials
DudaWordPress VIP
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.
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Automattic
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
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
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Automattic
  • Keeps us informed of upcoming releases/patches associated with the Wordpress Platform.
  • Introduces us to products/companies/Wordpress plugins as necessary when new business needs arise.
  • Amy and Allie are excellent at managing the relationship; speaking with them on our monthly calls is a pleasure.
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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
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Automattic
  • 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
Duda
No answers on this topic
Automattic
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
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.
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Automattic
There is documentation for everything you might need.
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Support Rating
Duda
No answers on this topic
Automattic
The people who work for WordPress VIP clearly are passionate about representing the organisation. Therefore when support is required, they do go above and beyond what you may expect in terms of overall support. They take security very seriously, and due to the nature of VIP, it's rarely a concern for the end-user, if at all.
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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
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Automattic
Our team manages 4 different brands' websites and before WordPress VIP we were using multiple different hosts including DreamHost and AWS. These were convoluted and didn't offer the enterprise features for our organization that WP VIP was capable of. We also considered Pantheon, but they were not Wordpress-centric enough for the direction we were going.
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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
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Automattic
  • Working as a WordPress VIP gold partner has helped our business grow from 12 staff to 28 staff in 2 years. They have brought many projects to the table that are always the right ones for us and they really understand our goals as a business.
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