Elementor vs. Wix

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting 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
Wix
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Wix is a website builder used to grown an online presence. The platform allows users to build their website from scratch, choose from designer-made templates, or use an AI website builder to add sections, images, and text.
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Pricing
ElementorWix
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
Free
$0
Light
$17
per month
Core
$29
per month
Business
$39
per month
Business Elite
$159
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ElementorWix
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPrices reflect deployment via WordPress. Options are also available for use with WooCommerce. A discount is offered for annual billing.
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Community Pulse
ElementorWix
Considered Both Products
Elementor
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 …
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.
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 …
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! …
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.
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.
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
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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.
Wix
Chose Wix
Wix feels very similar to the experience I had with Squarespace some years ago. It far exceeds Drupal, which we found impossible to customize or integrate with things without the help of a professional developer. Wordpress, of course, offers infinite customization options for …
Chose Wix
Wix is very similar to Squarespace where they both have easy to use user interfaces, and both lack the ability to get cute with custom code when desired. That being said, for us Wix tends to deliver better overall value of options for the price. A lot of 3rd party apps …
Chose Wix
Wix is GREAT for a drag-and-drop website editor, but I prefer Squarespace. Squarespace has a lot more polished drag-and-drop modules. Squarespace feels more like a name-brand editor, as it's frequently discussed by many influencers online and has a high level of brand …
Chose Wix
Been using Wix for our digital platform for quite a while before the others. It's efficient, easy to use
Chose Wix
Wix is super easy and straightforward; in comparison to the competitors I've used, it eliminates a lot of stress and anxiety around creating and maintaining a website. The affordability of Wix in comparison to other website platforms is also something that I appreciate. I …
Chose Wix
I was pleasantly surprised at how much more complex Wix was a designing a website than WordPress was, and yet it maintained the same level of simply pleasing aesthetic quality. Whereas before, when I first use WordPress, it was simply just a tad more than a blog, Wix as allowed …
Chose Wix
easier and more efficient to manage than wordpress, but there are times when you are unable to customise things. Wix is sort of like canva compared to photoshop, it does what it needs to the vast majority of the time and actually quite well
Chose Wix
Zoho provides a free email account which can be coupled to your website. Wix does not provide this free option but rather tries to sell a professional account through google.
Chose Wix
Thanks to the intuitive interface that Wix has, we've been able to accelerate the speed of some of our projects, which is very important for us.

We find Wix easier and faster than WordPress or Squarespace, as these 2 are definitely more complex and hard to comprehend at some …
Chose Wix
We thought that the features in Wix were easier to use and were more suited to a less technical audience. As our organization has a lot of non-intern-native age individuals, we needed something that was very intuitive. Squarespace seemed like more work to manage and overall …
Chose Wix
Wix is way better as a user-friendly tool that extends its use to non-high technology skill people, that let other people administrate the site other than the IT expert.
Chose Wix
I appreciate this tool the way it is going is excellent. The website is the first basic thing that speaks of a company. During its purchasing, I faced no difficulty in terms of licensing and it provides me all the necessary tools by which I can easily create the HTML. In terms …
Chose Wix
On a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is the highest, Wix is at a 3 based on the software listed.
Chose Wix
Wix is cleaner and easier to navigate. I'd go so far as to say something about it feels sleeker and almost "sexier," I may be so bold...
Chose Wix
I selected Wix as I have used it before. Wix is a website builder. It’s easy to use and offers lots of technical support. WordPress is a content management system, which is more scalable but also demands more technical know-how.
Chose Wix
I selected Wix because it is way more user friendly. With Wordpress, you need to either have advanced knowledge in coding and development, or you can hire someone to optimize your website for you. With Wix, you don't need to hire someone of have a lot of knowledge in coding - …
Chose Wix
Wix does not hold a candle to WP or Squarespace. We selected Wix because it was the cheapest option, and when working with nonprofits, cheap wins.
Chose Wix
Wix is a less aesthetically pleasing option in comparison to WordPress and Squarespace. WordPress is much more robust in regard to its capabilities, especially with SEO. Squarespace has better themes to use and is more pleasing to look at it however I think Wix's usability …
Chose Wix
Squarespace and wordpress are great options but both are more expensive options and they can be more complex for the beginner user. The thing I like about Wix is how easy to use it is and basically, you can drag and drop things that you need to make a great-looking website.
Chose Wix
Wix is a great starting platform for anyone looking to create a website. It definitely holds its own against any other all in one website creation platform. The one thing I would say is if your main focus is solely on eCommerce you may be better off using something like …
Chose Wix
We ultimately selected Wix Answers for the price and that we could localize the platform and articles. WIth WixAnswers the cost is based on users, since our users were low the price was very economical for our needs.
Chose Wix
Wix is easier to use and much more intuitive than WordPress.
Features
ElementorWix
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Elementor
6.9
Ratings
16% below category average
Wix
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions6.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Elementor
3.0
Ratings
87% below category average
Wix
-
Ratings
API4.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language2.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Elementor
7.9
Ratings
2% above category average
Wix
-
Ratings
WYSIWYG editor7.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Admin section9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Page templates10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Library of website themes9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design6.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing workflow8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Form generator4.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Elementor
6.2
Ratings
17% below category average
Wix
-
Ratings
Content taxonomy7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO support5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk management5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions6.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Community / comment management7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
ElementorWix
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(0 ratings)
9.4
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Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
2.0
(0 ratings)
6.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
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10.0
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User Testimonials
ElementorWix
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
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The fact of Wix moving away from their ADI web-building tool in favour of Editor, in my opinion, makes a huge mess of everything. I feel a lot of the ease and automation of designing my website has gone to such an extent that I now "recommend" Wix only for professional developers. Worse is that I have to redesign a big part of my website as items are now linked to each other in a different way than used to be the case. In my opinion, A big ZERO for Wix, who clearly should do their homework again.
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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
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  • User-Friendliness: Wix is a lot easier to navigate than other web-building sites. Oftentimes it's like Wix does the thinking for you instead of just throwing endless options at you and complicating the process.
  • Unique Content: Many services for generating websites, images, videos, etc. are starting to look the same and, for that matter, they're starting to look stale. What Wix offers feels fresher and cleaner.
  • Reliability & Respectfulness: We have yet to incur any issues that have affected our web properties or routine to this point. Furthermore, Wix does not constantly throw new offers or new pricing or new requirements at us. They value you where you are.
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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
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  • One place where Wix falls short of other CMS's is with insights and analytics. On other platforms, I can instantly see how many page views I received, what time the pages were viewed, location, etc. But seeing this information on Wix requires a Google Analytics integration that is not automatically included when you make an account. You have to first go to Google Analytics to make an account, then come back to Wix to activate the integration, it's a little time-consuming for a feature that most CMS's come with instantly.
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Likelihood to Renew
Elementor is critical to our ongoing success and providing our clients with world-class websites
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I’m happy with Square space as of now, and right now I don’t also have a team that would be able to review for me whether it’s worth switching again. Wix was great in the beginning of my career, but I needed something different to support the release of my new music. I like the price for Square space more too!
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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.
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Great customization, but a pain to backtrack. They recently added the ability to set fonts etc as headings, title, body etc, but if you did not begin your build with these presets you are screwed if you ever try to change font/ colors/layout etc.
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Reliability and Availability
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I never had an outage issue per say. I would say it was very reliable of a website building platform and as a marketing source there was never any issues connecting it to the server. I don’t recall there being any editing tools or hosting issues. Nothing went down when using it.
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Performance
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Not complex at all. It teaches you how to use their platform in a dynamic way. Each tutorial offers an explanation that can be reviewed later on. The connection speed of a web page has been smooth so far, with no major problems regarding this subject. Overall, Wix can manage 10+ pages with great connection speed.
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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.
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As stated before I didn’t use the support as I did not have the feature and did not often enough need the help. I was able to figure it out mostly on my own by exploring the site. I’ve found exploring and playing on it told me how to do most things.
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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
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Like I said I was a beginner so it was fun to navigate and teach myself how to implement the features when building and maintaining my site. It was a fairly easy place to host my domain, and creat something simple.
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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.
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Wix is GREAT for a drag-and-drop website editor, but I prefer Squarespace. Squarespace has a lot more polished drag-and-drop modules. Squarespace feels more like a name-brand editor, as it's frequently discussed by many influencers online and has a high level of brand awareness. Wix is more customizable and can create a more tailored end product than Squarespace. Additionally, it is cheaper, which is another advantage for Wix.
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Scalability
No answers on this topic
I give this rating to Wix because it's a great content creator. It has a great platform and also offers great customer service. If you encounter any technical issues, with Wix you will find a solution. For premium members or domain holders, this is the same as for Trial members or non-domain holders.
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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.
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  • Affordable - for those on limited to zero budget it is easy to get started and getyour business online. I was able to create a portfolio website that I could direct my clients to in order to view my previous projects.
  • There is no need to pay a website designer (save on costs)- it is easy to get a website up and published on Wix that you save on not needing to pay a professional to do it for your start-up business.
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