Duda vs. WP Engine

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Duda
Score 8.9 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.
$19
per month
WP Engine
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
WP Engine is a website hosting service built to host WordPress for companies of any size, with features such as daily backups, firewall,SSL, and proprietary caching technology.
$29
per month
Pricing
DudaWP Engine
Editions & Modules
Basic
$19
per month
Team
$29
per month
Agency
$59
per month
Custom
Contact Sales
Startup
$25.00
*Per Month
Growth
$95.00
*Per Month
Scale
$241.00
*Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DudaWP Engine
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details25% discount available for annual pricing.*Pricing for annual contract.
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Community Pulse
DudaWP Engine
Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
DudaWP Engine
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.9
4 Ratings
9% above category average
WP Engine
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.6
4 Ratings
12% above category average
WP Engine
-
Ratings
API9.13 Ratings00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language8.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.8
4 Ratings
13% above category average
WP Engine
-
Ratings
WYSIWYG editor9.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
Admin section9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Page templates7.94 Ratings00 Ratings
Library of website themes8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing workflow9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
Form generator8.54 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Duda
8.6
4 Ratings
15% above category average
WP Engine
-
Ratings
Content taxonomy8.74 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO support8.64 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk management8.64 Ratings00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Community / comment management8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
DudaWP Engine
Small Businesses
Divi
Divi
Score 10.0 out of 10
Flywheel
Flywheel
Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Image Relay
Image Relay
Score 9.5 out of 10
Pantheon
Pantheon
Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprises
RWS Tridion Sites
RWS Tridion Sites
Score 9.0 out of 10
Pantheon
Pantheon
Score 8.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
DudaWP Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(4 ratings)
9.8
(29 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
3.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
DudaWP Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
Duda
For both service, and a variety of ecom needs, Duda delivers!
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WP Engine
I am an enterprise user of WordPress and host over 7000 sites with WPEngine. Areas that I think they are well suited for include customers that need enterprise-level support and uptime and have more complex needs than a simple blog. They also manage scale well with a variety of isolated install options that you can scale up or down depending on your contract needs. They also provide premier support for enterprises and have highly knowledgable Technical Account Managers that provide a significant value add. If I were to look at where it isn't as appropriate for usage I would focus on the low-end needs and say while they do support small sites, there are options out there for cheaper hosting that lack the support a WPEngine gives you.
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Pros
Duda
  • Seamless customer experience during page approval process
  • Highest score in core web vitals when compared to other CMS platforms
  • Duda will allow you to build websites faster, training team members and clients on the platform is a breeze
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WP Engine
  • I love the database backups and how quickly & easy it is to restore from an old backup point. This gives me & my clients confidence that any change can be rolled back.
  • The built in caching & CDN mean that I have to spend less time worrying about the speed of the server & site. The caching has some side-effects that take getting used to (on-page dynamic PHP code sometimes needs to be moved to API endpoints), but this is true for most caching systems.
  • They have really good support for multiple environments. It's very easy to have separate production & staging environments. It's also very simple to deploy from staging to production, making product launches and large scale website copy changes much easier to coordinate.
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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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WP Engine
  • I'd like to see WP Engine offer their own monitoring solution. When I say monitoring, I mean specific use cases that may end up being something you could script. This would keep customers from having to pay for additional services like Pingdom, New Relic, etc.
  • I would like to see some proactive analysis done by WP Engine on their customer sites - at least on their home pages, and offer up suggestions. This kind of goes along with the other example.
  • Finally, it would be nice to see a "lighter" offering, perhaps a plan that costs $49 for those who want to host only a few sites, or even 1 site.
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Likelihood to Renew
Duda
No answers on this topic
WP Engine
I was in a situation where I had to bolt Wordpress on to an existing infrastructure that could not support it. If I ever end up in that situation again, please kill me. Other than that reasonably common use case, I don't think it offers a lot of value over robust shared hosting, virtual private server (VPS) or dedicated servers.
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Usability
Duda
No answers on this topic
WP Engine
It took very little time to learn their dashboard for managing WordPress sites. Their built-in tools are really well done, and the addition of security and CDN tools is great.
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Support Rating
Duda
No answers on this topic
WP Engine
Support is generally great. Enterprise support is fantastic, with little to no wait times. I find that chat support can almost always take care of the problem without escalating to a ticket for a higher level of troubleshooting. The chat support for many other hosting providers can only handle basic issues. This is a big bonus for us to get quick and helpful answers.
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Alternatives Considered
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 clients have used through other providers.
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WP Engine
While we still use GoDaddy for some services, WP Engine definitely has been a major upgrade for our WordPress hosting. In addition to faster load speeds, WP Engine has been more adept at allowing us to manage a high number of websites without straining the system. We have never used Network Solutions for our own hosting needs, but when we do interact with them on behalf of our clients, their systems always seem to be clunky and hard to use, and they often overcharge customers by selling them products they do not need.
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Return on Investment
Duda
  • In the time it would have taken to build one website on WordPress, I built three on Duda.
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WP Engine
  • WP Engine reduces our time investment and upkeep costs which increases our margins.
  • WP Engine simplifies site management with a built-in development server, which saves us headaches.
  • WP Engine itself is positioned as a premium service, which allows us to use their branding as a tool to close sales.
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