Isn’t Elementor’s price of $59 cheaper than WPBaker’s?

No. You need to consider two things:

• Our $69 license cost includes more features than Elementor’s Essential plan. A fairer comparison is with their $79 / year tier.
• We sell lifetime licenses, which means you only pay for WPBakery once. Elementor’s plans are subscriptions that renew automatically every year.

Is Elementor’s editor better than WPBakery’s?

That’s subjective, and it also depends on who is using it.

We created an interface that is intuitive and easy for anyone to use. You don’t have to be a developer or designer to create and update pages, including creating blocks featuring multiple columns and types of content.

Also, WPBakery offers two editors: a Back End Editor where you can see content elements in a logical, grid arrangement, and a Front End Editor, which is more visual and where you can edit content inline. Learn more about our editor on our Front End and Back End Editing page.

Is Elementor hard to use for business users?

A lot of our customers tell us that! Elementor is a great tool for designers and even developers, but quite hard to grasp if you are not. Business users don’t want to have to learn a new tool to make simple layout changes and content edits.

That said, you can create any number of pages with many layout options with WPBakery, even if you’re not a web designer. There are some powerful tools at your disposal too, such as the Advanced Grid Builder and Skin Builder.

Think of it this way: with WPBakey, the hard design work has already been done by the Theme author.

Is Elementor Slow? How about WPBakery?

Elementor has received this criticism, but to be fair, there are many factors involved that make a page builder fast or slow.

But it’s also true that Elementor is a more sophisticated plugin that is heavier in terms of file sizes. There are more things and bigger files to load, and this has an impact on speed, which is why sometimes users get a ‘Elementor editor not loading’ error.

Check out how WPBakery compares to Elementor and other page builders on the WP Builders Fight Club website.

Can you use Elementor and WPBakery together?

Technically speaking, yes. However, running two-page builders at the same time is going to affect performance. There may be some conflicts too.

If you are going to do it, make sure your hosting can handle the load, considering that other plugins, scripts, and integrations are going to impact performance as well.

If you’re looking for a more powerful host, try WPBakery Hosting by Indystack. Its container-based solution and generous resources may be able to handle running both Elementor and WPBakery at the same time.

Which is better for agencies?

This depends on who the agency is building a website for, and who will be maintaining the website once it has been delivered to the client.

If a website has been built with Elementor, in many cases clients will need to learn how to use it, and it’s not an easy tool to learn if you’re not a designer or developer.

WPBakery is a much easier tool to use for clients. It’s intuitive and logical, and can just be handed over to a client. The chances of a client breaking a layout are greatly reduced too.