Elementor vs. Umbraco CMS

Elementor

Umbraco CMS

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Elementor	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	Elementor is a Wordpress page builder and creative toolkit featuring a drag and drop live editor, 100+ widgets, and tools to landing pages and popups.	$11.99 per month
Umbraco CMS	Score 6.7 out of 10	N/A	Umbraco is an open-source .NET Core CMS with over 700,000 active installs worldwide and with more than 200,000 active community members. It was first released on February 16th, 2005, and is still to this day an open-source project backed by a commercial company. To ensure Umbraco is always running the latest technology, the company has aligned with Microsoft's .NET release schedule to always have the Umbraco CMS…	$0

Pricing

Elementor

Umbraco CMS

Editions & Modules

Lite: $11.99
per month
Basic: $14.99
per month
Business: $24.99
per month
Grow: $32.99
per month
Expert: $149.00
per year

Umbraco Free: $0
Umbraco Starter: $53
per month
Umbraco Standard: $320
per month
Umbraco Professional: $860
per month
Umbraco Cloud Enterprise: Custom Pricing
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Elementor	Umbraco CMS
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Prices reflect deployment via WordPress. Options are also available for use with WooCommerce. A discount is offered for annual billing.

The Umbraco CMS and all of its core features are the same across all plans.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Elementor	Umbraco CMS
Considered Both Products	Elementor Michał Kuczek Programmer Chose Elementor In the wordpress environment Elementor is by far the best builder, there are new things coming to market like Breakdance, but their time is still to be decided in the future. Also overall in the entire web builder category, Elementor is unbeatable, having the power of WordPress … Incentivized Helpful? NL Nathan Littleton Director Chose Elementor I prefer it to most of them because it's cost effective and I really like WordPress a really good feature base to build websites on. Bricks is WP-based too, but I find Elementor easier to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Elementor We initially chose WYSIWUG web builder as the key platform for all website development projects. While we still rate the product almost an 8.5/10, we found much better SEO (Search engine optimization) outcomes through wordpress and accordingly migrated to the same. Going … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Elementor Bricks and Divi Incentivized Helpful? Rachel Garwood Social Media and Web Developer Chose Elementor Elementor is a bit of a different platform than, say, easyTithe, Robly, and Apptivo, but it is comparable to Shopify. I feel like Elementor and WooCommerce are a lot easier to use than Shopify, and it doesn't come with such high fees. For our business, it was no choice! … Incentivized Helpful? James Crook Business Coach at The Health Leader Co Chose Elementor We've used Divi and Enfold as well, both of those have a similar goal for visual editors and usability and work well - but Elementor feels more polished and has great support. Incentivized Helpful? Taylor Hicks Creative Strategist Chose Elementor We weighed Elementor against the classic/native WordPress editor and Gutenberg. Elementor provides more functionality and with a greater ease of use than its competitors. Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Cetina Founder Chose Elementor Actually, we switch to Squarespace after working with Elementor for a year. Squarespace is giving us best results and more freedom to make changes or add new stuff to the site Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Carney Principle Chose Elementor I use Optimize Press on a business website. It has a conceptually similar WYSIWYG page builder. They provide a sales funnel capability with their theme, which is why I use them. Incentivized Helpful? RB Randall Benson Digital Marketing Manager Chose Elementor I have used the built-in Gutenberg content builder and Visual Composer before. Neither of these are truly "front-end" page builders. They allow you to build with blocks the content you want, but you can not see it live as you design it. That is the true value Elementor has … Incentivized Helpful? carlos ibarra Director Operaciones Chose Elementor Thrive leads and thrive architect is a pain to update, they've changed version and name in recent years. I am unable to update because every time there was an upgrade or new release of the plugin it caused issues with my website's functionality which has left me stuck updating … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Elementor I previously used Wix with another company, and when I switched companies, the company I switched to was already using WordPress/Elementor. I could have switched the company to Wix if I had wanted to, but I enjoy the flexibility that Elementor allows, something that Wix isn't … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Elementor I want WP Bakery back. Incentivized Helpful? IS Isabel Sam Owner Chose Elementor I ended up asking Elementor for a refund so I could use another theme. They were quick to refund me and ask what they could do better in the future. I ended up choosing OShine, which worked great for me, but now I wish I would've gone with Oxygen as it seems to be a little tiny … Incentivized Helpful? DM Dennis Maksymov Growth Marketing Manager Chose Elementor Elementor is relatively cheap and easy to use, but comes with a number of performance issues which ruin the experience in the long run. Right now, we've switched to Webflow and Unbounce for the same ease of use, but with improved performance Incentivized Helpful? Oleksandr Torlo Product R&D Manager Chose Elementor We wanted to use WordPress and not depend on the Tilda with annual fees, so we installed wordpress and bought a template on Envato market, and the selected template already had a built-in Elementor, which I just tweaked to fit my needs. Also we don't want to learn a completely … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Elementor Elementor stuck out as the clear leader for their online support and ease of use. Wordpress has started to adopt some of the core features of Wordpress, which means that they must have been good and seen as a clear necessity, but the Elementor still has the clear lead on … Incentivized Helpful? Nuno Reis CIO (Chief Information Officer) Chose Elementor I tried a couple of website builders for Wordpress and Visual Composer was the only other that I considered using. Elementor is a better product like the price difference proves. I will choose Elementor whenever possible because it makes sense from a business perspective. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Elementor Before Elementor, I developed our site using the WordPress plugin Divi. While the editor was great, I found that the site load times (even with image optimization) were unacceptably slow. The Elementor editor is on par with Divi (better in way[s], less intuitive in others), but … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Rutel Creative Director & Owner Chose Elementor Before using Elementor we used Divi by Elegant Themes, and the biggest improvements are in load speed and reduced bloat. Elementor editor loads faster and makes web design a more enjoyable process. I would highly recommend Elementor over Divi. It’s also helpful that Elementor … Incentivized Helpful? Gary Williams President & CEO Chose Elementor We've used everything from Divi to Brizy to Gutenberg and beyond. For us, Elementor ticks all the boxes. Though Divi has its fanbase, it doesn't allow a client to switch easily down the road whereas Elementor does. Divi and Elementor were our final two choices as we went … Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Smith Owner Principal Chose Elementor I am not finding the builders that I have used in the past in the prepopulated area. The builders that we have used in the past include Divi, Beaver Builder, WPBakery, Instapages, as well as the classic editor and Gutenberg. I will say that Beaver Builder is probably a close … Incentivized Helpful? Daniel J. Canto Bonilla Senior Network Manager Chose Elementor I tried Visual Composer and Divvy and no one is at the level of Elementor. It is very intuitive and easy, highly recommend. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Elementor Elementor is relatively inexpensive for the features offered. It's simpler than some competitors and allows teams to play around with site content without overwhelming them with sophisticated features. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Elementor WP Bakery and Divi both serve similar needs, but we have chosen to go full-tilt with Elementor due to the excellent infrastructure, support, and value it brings. Incentivized Helpful?	Umbraco CMS Verified User Anonymous Chose Umbraco CMS We preferred Umbraco because it is built with .NET, and most of our team members have proficiency in .NET. Umbraco is open-source so it was free, we could deploy it anywhere - on-premise or cloud. Umbraco had all features which we needed - SEO support, multi-lingual support, … Incentivized Helpful? Lori Jerome Digital Content Manager Chose Umbraco CMS Someone else selected before I came on board but I was open-minded and willing to give it a try. Incentivized Helpful? Janus Kamp Hansen Developer Chose Umbraco CMS Episerver CMS and Sitecore Web Content Management Incentivized Helpful? JE Jerker Edenborg System Developer Chose Umbraco CMS The performance of Umbraco is as good as Episerver. The back office in Umbraco is cleaner and more intuitive than Episerver. Sitecore is a good CMS for large projects, but the learning curve for developers and editors is steep. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Umbraco CMS Umbraco's templating is far superior than WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, but it's update process is WAY behind those platforms. The release schedule of Umbraco is way to often and most releases are to fix something missed in the previous release and not an improvement or new … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Umbraco CMS The learning curve to develop a web application is very short. The time to market is then insignificant. Umbraco is free and open source. Incentivized Helpful? Jakub Wilk President & Co-Founder Chose Umbraco CMS We chose Umbraco because of their technology, and it was better than our previous CMS, Orchard, which was too complicated even for programmers. Orchard was very good but to develop something it required a really strong knowledge of this framework. In Umbraco it seems to be … Incentivized Helpful? Debbie Marshall Operations Manager Chose Umbraco CMS We previously used Wordpress, however this was not easy to use, it was a complicated system and was limited in what we could achieve, there was a big outlay in buying bolts on and ensuring the system was safe. We found we where spammed loads, we tried to make it work however … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Kelly Data Manager Chose Umbraco CMS Both are comparable. We selected Umbraco CMS because it used .NET instead of PHP. I would recommend choosing the CMS that your staff and technical people will be the most comfortable with. Incentivized Helpful? Alex Lada Tech Director Chose Umbraco CMS Umbraco provides the best bang-for-the-buck CMS option on a .NET platform for those that cannot afford Sitecore. It is much friendlier to use than Ektron, is free to use, has commercial grade plugins that are not overly expensive, and provides the functionality that most … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Hardesty Founder Chose Umbraco CMS Umbraco vs WordPress Umbraco has more flexibility and customization options, but less features, reliability/stability, and community support. WordPress offers less customization for data and content, but it is immensely more stable, has better features /plugins, and includes an … Incentivized Helpful? Filip Witkowski Web Developer Chose Umbraco CMS There is not really an alternative when it comes to CMS based on ASP.Net (MVC4 with Razor). There are a few frameworks, like Booststrap; however framework is not content management system. I will compare it to Drupal, because the second one is well known. Against Drupal, … Helpful?

Features

Elementor

Umbraco CMS

Security

Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
	Elementor 7.0 Ratings 14% below category average	Umbraco CMS 9.0 Ratings 11% above category average
Role-based user permissions	7.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

Platform & Infrastructure

Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
	Elementor 3.0 Ratings 87% below category average	Umbraco CMS 8.5 Ratings 11% above category average
API	4.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language	2.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

Web Content Creation

Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
	Elementor 7.9 Ratings 2% above category average	Umbraco CMS 8.0 Ratings 4% above category average
WYSIWYG editor	7.50 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness	8.50 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Admin section	9.50 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Page templates	10.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Library of website themes	9.00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design	7.00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Publishing workflow	8.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Form generator	4.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings

Web Content Management

Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
	Elementor 6.2 Ratings 17% below category average	Umbraco CMS 7.2 Ratings 2% below category average
Content taxonomy	7.70 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
SEO support	5.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Bulk management	5.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions	6.20 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Community / comment management	7.00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Elementor	Umbraco CMS
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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
	Elementor	Umbraco CMS
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (0 ratings)	6.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	3.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	2.0 (0 ratings)	2.0 (0 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	3.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	4.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Elementor	Umbraco CMS
Likelihood to Recommend	I would recommend this for the ease of use and price. It is a good value for any website developer or designer to be able to create multiple websites a year with super simple coding. If you've got a way to speed up your website without using WP Rocket, then it's even better! I think this software is specifically made for someone with a coding background and would recommend that you have a background with Wordpress to make using this software even easier Incentivized IS Isabel Sam Owner Read full review	Umbraco is well suited for websites that are looking to do a wide range of activities that require complex technoligies. An example of this is a company with several different products or services. Umbraco would be overkill for simple sites that are mostly static. It is also difficult to find developers who have Umbraco experience, as it's market share is not all that high Incentivized Jason Kelly Data Manager Read full review
Pros	Theme builder (header, footer, site parts) Forms, with options for what to do with form submissions after they've been submitted (email, collect , push to EMS) Easy to use widgets for things that would otherwise need coding manually (sliders, carousels, flip boxes etc.) Pre-built templates Dynamic conditions for content display Incentivized NL Nathan Littleton Director Read full review	Quick to learn. For most if cases, developer needs to know Razor coding. Doesn't require back-end programming. Has build in users management (developers, content managers) and members management consoles (users of the site). Clear admin tool (especially in version 7) Fast. Creating code from scratch, so it is easier to create clean code. Filip Witkowski Web Developer Read full review
Cons	Could definitely use an AI bot for ad-hoc customer queries Very limited Wdgets available in free version - If you have complex pages, go pro Ensure robust internet speed (50 MBPS bare minimum) to be able to operate it. Below 8 GB RAM is not advised Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Migration of data between servers. There are tools that you can pay for that help facilitate this, but like any CMS system, there are still some tricks to getting it to work correctly. Running as a Web Project instead of a Web Site. Umbraco does not run compiled code, but instead compiles it on the fly. I find this to cause some performance issues that would otherwise be resolved with a compiled code base. Incentivized Alex Lada Tech Director Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Elementor is critical to our ongoing success and providing our clients with world-class websites Incentivized David Victorine Lead Developer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Elementor is one of those website builders that is really easy to get started with. The drag and drop features make it easy to create attractive and creative webpages for even the non-website designer. Some of the features available are not easy to find or easy to discover when you first start using Elementor. Practice makes perfect. Incentivized Ayo Bamgbose Assoc CIPD MSc Online digital business coach Read full review	Umbraco CMS effectively addresses enterprise content management needs. It's quite mature .NET based CMS, standing out as a leader among its competitors. Websites built with Umbraco are blazing fast. Extensive customization capabilities, and user-friendly content publishing interface makes it an ideal choice for businesses looking for a mature CMS solution. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	No answers on this topic	Occasionally, errors will appear in the admin that make it impossible to work without developer support. Incentivized Matthew Hardesty Founder Read full review
Performance	No answers on this topic	Working in the admin panel (adding / reviewing / editing content) is very slow. The public facing site speed is dependent on what the pages are doing and how well the code was written (whether it is optimized for speed). Incentivized Matthew Hardesty Founder Read full review
Support Rating	There support is slow and at times can be frustrating and this is why many prefer to air out their frustrations within the Facebook group community. I tend to give up as when I'm working on something and something goes wrong I need the help straight away. I do not have the patience to wait anymore. Incentivized Ayo Bamgbose Assoc CIPD MSc Online digital business coach Read full review	Support for Umbraco-owned paid plugins is nonexistent. Incentivized Matthew Hardesty Founder Read full review
Online Training	No answers on this topic	Online training is often based on older versions of the platform. So, you'll have to fill in the gaps on your own. Incentivized Matthew Hardesty Founder Read full review
Implementation Rating	The business team has to stick to its core competencies - Our key turning point occured when we delegated webpage design challenges to a tech. firm with specific mandates (including a certain degree of internal control). Once the initial go-live was completed, the agency trained us on internalizing ad-hoc and tactical change work Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Spend the time to wireframe the content structure prior to diving in. This helps speed the process of implementation and it serves as documentation for end users. Incentivized Matthew Hardesty Founder Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Compared to other providers, Elementor can be easy to use and learn, allowing you to build professional websites in a fraction of the time it takes to build websites with other sites. The AI feature can help non-tech people to easily understand and build a website that is SEO and Google search compliant. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We previously used WordPress, however this was not easy to use, it was a complicated system and was limited in what we could achieve, there was a big outlay in buying bolts on and ensuring the system was safe. We found we where spammed loads, we tried to make it work however after a year we decided to leave WordPress behind. The company did evaluated Adobe but the dev team decided that Umbraco was the best tool to meet our own needs. Incentivized Debbie Marshall Operations Manager Read full review
Scalability	No answers on this topic	Without significant development, the product does not scale well. Incentivized Matthew Hardesty Founder Read full review
Return on Investment	Our sales have really grown over the past five years of using Elementor. We went from fulfilling less than five orders a month to now 10-15 per months. And we are a small bulk food store with a small audience. We have been able to add plug ins along with Elementor to customize our products, store, and pages. We haven't done as much with SEO and Elementor. I feel like this is one area that we could probably do better. Incentivized Rachel Garwood Social Media and Web Developer Read full review	CMS is free Support form Umbraco HQ is not expensive, can include Courier or other functionality For most cases does not need back end developer For trained Umbraco developers (Razor coding, using admin tool), developing medium site, takes a few weeks max Filip Witkowski Web Developer Read full review
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