DevExpress Universal vs. Progress Telerik

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
DevExpress Universal
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
DevExpress Universal is a suite of all DevExpress .NET products and controls.N/A
Progress Telerik
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
With Telerik UI libraries, Progress aims to equip .NET ninjas with a full arsenal of weapons, helping to create beautiful, modern and future-proof applications quickly and intuitively. The vendor states that with its over 1,250 UI components for all .NET platforms, as well as various themes, skins and customization options, Telerik users report cutting development time by up to 50 percent. Web
$999
per developer, royalty-free
Pricing
DevExpress UniversalProgress Telerik
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Individual Product Licence
$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
DevExpress UniversalProgress Telerik
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
DevExpress UniversalProgress Telerik
Considered Both Products
DevExpress Universal
Chose DevExpress Universal
DevExpress Universal controls are much simpler to use, implement and customized as compared to Kendo. Learning curve for telerik is high, though level of customization that can be achieved with telerik exceeds that of DevExpress Universal.

Found DevExpress Universal community …
Chose DevExpress Universal
Infragistics Ignite was the main contender in our internal review.
However it was not offering as many advanced components as we were a need for, or not as advanced as we would have hoped.
Chose DevExpress Universal
I selected DevExpress over MUI because it offers enterprise-grade data grids and because their UI components offer a comprehensive set of properties and events we can subscribe to.
Chose DevExpress Universal
DevExpress really is an expansion of DevExpress. I haven't tried too many other add-on tools to Visual Studio, but DevExpress is a valuable addition for us. We really like the dashboards and cards we can easily build within them, as well as the more powerful tools. As I stated …
Progress Telerik
Chose Progress Telerik
While the more expensive to use for a small shop(for example syncfusion is free to start), the quality paid for itself in no time flat. Other options are either half baked, have lock in and will become quite expensive once you hit a treshhold, or plain simply didn't mesh with …
Chose Progress Telerik
The Telerik controls were just easier for us to use and implement. Our evaluation of control packages was over 9 years ago, so it is hard to recall the major differences. Generally, the team preferred what Telerik had to offer, particularly the fact that the bundle provided …
Chose Progress Telerik
Progress Telerik UI provides a large amount of language support, demos, and documentation. While the competition is still great in their own right, Progress Telerik UI has provided enough resources to cover a number of current and future projects without having to expand to …
Chose Progress Telerik
Telerik UI for Blazor is much more usable than Kendo UI. I was never a fan of Kendo UI, but I like using Telerik UI For Blazor due to the ease of implementation for the components.
Chose Progress Telerik
Progress Telerik UI is the most complete multi-framework/platform in existence. Without it, you will find yourself having to traverse half a dozen other component providers each with varying degrees of license requirements and update schedules. Sure you might find a single …
Chose Progress Telerik
I purchased Telerik because its components seemed great and were priced more attractively than Syncfusion. Unfortunately, after hitting major product limitations with Telerik's Document Processing for PDF I now find myself migrating from Telerik to Syncfusion. This has been an …
Chose Progress Telerik
  • Rapid development and easy integration with applications.
Chose Progress Telerik
Telerik Support (pre-progress) is awesome, way better than Infragistics or Syncfusion.
Syncfusion is a little cheaper.
They all have Grid components (like Excel) then there are a few edge cases of having different controls to another to show off. Once you know what UI tech you …
Chose Progress Telerik
I have tried another library called JqWidgets. Telerik makes setting up UI elements much easier than JqWidgets. It is better documented as well.
Chose Progress Telerik
[Progress Telerik UI] had a specific set of controls that were suited directly to our application space. Telerik also provided a Xamarin solution for very similar pricing, which should allow us to speed up our app development.
Chose Progress Telerik
Progress Telerik UI ultimately had the smoothest/lowest learning curve for developers and it's an established product that incoming team members likely have some experience with.
Chose Progress Telerik
The existing Microsoft technologies already support many of the controls provided by Progress Telerik UI and may be used as an alternative, of course. They will not have the full-featured functionality you will find in Progress Telerik UI but are available. There are also other …
Chose Progress Telerik
Using Progress Telerik UI on the front end and Spring on the back end, you can focus on your business logic in the middle. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. This allows you to focus on what's under the hood. These have both been a pleasure to work with.
Chose Progress Telerik
We have been implementing our own custom code using the ASP.NET framework, and it has taken us a lot longer to implement functionality. When we transitioned to using Progress Telerik UI components, it exponentially sped up our development time and improved the look of our …
Chose Progress Telerik
With Progress Telerik UI, didn't really look for alternatives.
Chose Progress Telerik
We have not used any other product for UI. We are using Telerik from start and continuing using it.
Features offered by Telerik are sufficient for our product and we are fully utilizing all features provided by Telerik.
Performance of all UI controls are great so over all …
Chose Progress Telerik
Super easy to use and integrate into Visual Studio. The MVC helpers greatly simplify development. The controls are easy to implement and the online examples are excellent.
Chose Progress Telerik
We are using DevExpress for reporting, which has a way better reporting and report template creation mechanism.
Chose Progress Telerik
I am much more pleased with what we've gotten from Telerik UI in terms of controls and ease of use. The controls have great functionality and were easy to integrate into what we are wanting to accomplish. DevExpress never wowed us and that's why we went with Progress and have …
Chose Progress Telerik
PowerApps contains integration into backend data sources, but very limited UI functionality in the controls.

Telerik requires additional data source integration development, but offers essentially unlimited UI functionality
Chose Progress Telerik
Thanks to the functionalities contained in Telerik tools we are able to create complex interfaces and satisfy the requests of our customers. Especially for increasingly frequent requests to use applications on mobile devices. With Telerik we have been able to solve many …
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User Ratings
DevExpress UniversalProgress Telerik
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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10.0
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Usability
-
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9.5
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Support Rating
-
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9.3
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
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9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
DevExpress UniversalProgress Telerik
Likelihood to Recommend
DevExpress can help you create the big web app of your dreams. DevExpress works great with data-centered enterprise-level applications that require the use of enterprise-grade data grids, pivottables, and integrate them with all the widgets like buttons, popups, forms, etc. I would not recommend DevExpress for small apps that require only basic widgets like radio/select boxes, buttons, text boxes, etc. You can get those widgets for free or even make your own.
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Progress Telerik UI is one of the best web design and development solutions for Dot Net based applications. It has extensible support for ASP.NET Core, C#, WCF, and ASP.NET WebForms. It overall improves the design structure for the applications and provides multiple customization options to meet the requirements of clients and end-users.
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Pros
  • Document designer is extremely powerful control
  • Controls ranging from form, report, document designer, charts, dashboards with consistent experience across multiple technology stacks
  • Documentation and extent of samples
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  • Telerik enables rapid application development for the demonstration of concepts.
  • It provides a good set of themes and functional additions to a UI development environment.
  • Each control is packed with valuable features.
  • The support team is responsive and very knowledgeable about making their product work in whatever situation you need.
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Cons
  • Stick with only .NET development not supported other framework like angular, react vue, etc.
  • Control elements were not properly documented on the websites
  • Price is higher than expected
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  • I have not worked with the App Builder but I think a GUI for dragging and dropping components to build a web page would be great.
  • In addition to the app builder there should some tools to design a responsive web application to see the results for different screen sizes.
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Likelihood to Renew
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The Telerik UI has become part of our staple development tools. We can not be as productive without the feature set available to us in the Telerik UI ASP.NET AJAX control package.
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Usability
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The UX of their UI is very well thought out, the micro-interactions are intuitive - thus great for your end user as less training is needed. Using the software, there [are] loads to get you going, you can download their whole demo site and see how each demo works. There is more now on github to get you started, also much on an awesome CDN that's well bedded in so your app is speedy and up to date.
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Support Rating
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Progress Telerik UI customer support is pretty good. The ticketing system allows a thread of questions, answers, and attachments of code and screenshots. Response time is fairly quick and often has code snippets or pointers to online examples that could be relevant. There is a large amount of community support forums to get answers or post questions. In addition there is a forum of posted code samples for the various controls. The Progress update tool easily tells you what products have been updated and allows you to install the updates on your development system. Release notes can be displayed to see what's new.
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Implementation Rating
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The controls work very well as long as they are used as intended. Built-in functionality should be used whenever possible,
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Alternatives Considered
Infragistics Ignite was the main contender in our internal review.
However it was not offering as many advanced components as we were a need for, or not as advanced as we would have hoped.
And it was unknown to most of the team while we already knew DevExpress Ultimate from previous proof of concept work.
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The Telerik controls were just easier for us to use and implement. Our evaluation of control packages was over 9 years ago, so it is hard to recall the major differences. Generally, the team preferred what Telerik had to offer, particularly the fact that the bundle provided controls, not just for the ASP.NET context, but also Windows applications, and the cross-platform contexts as well.
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Return on Investment
  • Expansion of business apps
  • New powerful analysis
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  • Provides rapid development - it has helped me create multiple web applications in MVC and Angular within a one-month time frame.
  • Our clients were facing challenges (taking time to load applications, grid view, and generating reports ) with asp.net web applications. Using Kendo UI we have migrated the ASP.NET application to MVC within a one-month time frame. The client was very happy with the application's performance and responsive UI.
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ScreenShots

Progress Telerik Screenshots

Screenshot of Easily create eye-catching and full-featured user interface for web, mobile and desktop 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.Screenshot of Create rich dashboard applications by taking advantage of the breadth of UI widgets available within the Telerik UI toolset. Easily wire up the UI controls to any backend to display any and all kind of data that you need to surface in your applications.Screenshot of Need to add reporting and analytics capabilities to your applications? Telerik Reporting is a complete, lightweight .NET embedded reporting tool for web and desktop applications. Use Telerik Reporting to create, style, view and export rich, interactive and reusable reports to attractively and beautifully present analytical and business data.Screenshot of With Telerik UI for Xamarin you can build native iOS and Android applications, with rich user experience and outstanding performance. Enjoy all the components you need to build your mobile application.Screenshot of Build modern desktop applications with Telerik UI for WinForms and Telerik UI for WPF. The most complete desktop UI suites, with rich feature set and modern look and feel.Screenshot of