Elementor Pro vs Divi 2024

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⏱️Timestamps⏱️
0:00 Intro
0:11 1) Learning Curve
1:04 2) Pricing
3:28 3) Development
4:29 4) Widgets / Modules
9:14 5) Extensions / extra addons
10:27 6) AI Integratoin
11:30 7) Layouts / templates
14:04 8) Support
16:10 9) Speed
18:29 10) Resources / Documentations / Tutorials
19:20 Conclusion, end scores

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🧾 Transscript 🧾
Elementor Pro or Divi. In this video I'm going to talk about the differences, so you can make a well-thought, deliberate decision about which one to choose. I first want to talk to you about the learning curve. Some people say Elementor Pro is too hard to learn. Others say Divi is too hard to learn. That is all not true. In fact, as with all skills, it just takes time to learn to build a website. If you do want to have a website that you can just click, click or just use a template and change it - I'll talk about later about the templates- but is actually not what you want. What you want is a tailor made website completely created by yourself. So that it is absolutely unique. Does it take time to learn? Of course. Is it difficult? It's not that difficult if you know your way around a web browser and you have the right teacher to help you learn Elementor and learn Divi. So for the score, I'm going to give both builders a 9 out of 10 because they're both very good learnable, if you learn it from the right people. Now let's talk about pricing. Elementor Pro has a yearly subscription plan. You might think $59 a year is the best one. But no, you only have one website and only 50 of the pro widgets. What you actually always need is the 82 Pro Widgets, up to three websites for just $100 a year. $100 year is not that much in my opinion. If you get a good solid system that works excellent out of the box, and that is what it actually does. If you want to buy Elementor Pro, you can absolutely help me a lot by creating this free videos, to follow my affiliate link. Its in the comments section and in the description of this video. But with Divi, you also have a yearly subscription plan of $90 a year. But then you can use Divi on unlimited websites. That's a big difference with Elementor Pro, but there's another big difference. If you hit this switch you get a lifetime deal. That means for $250 you can build unlimited websites with Divi for the rest of your life. And you also get new updates. And updates are really important with Divi as... well we're about to see that their builder is a bit old. If you follow my affiliate link, you get 24 hours discount of 10% on the purchase of Divi lifetime or Divi yearly. Now there's also such a thing as the Divi Pro. If you buy this one, you also get Divi AI - Unlimited text, image & code generation. You get also access to the Divi Cloud storage, which may be useful if you are going to create a lot of Divi websites. And you have Divi VIP, which means 24/7 premium support in 30 minutes or less. We're going to talk about support later on. This might be interesting, but if you want to buy a lifetime license, then you have to renew for $220 a year for just Divi, AI, Cloud and VIP. I personally never used the Divi Pro license as I don't have a team working on different kind of projects at the same time, and I don't use AI that much in building websites. So for the score I would give Divi a 10 out of 10 because of the lifetime license. but I also agree that $99 a year is actually not that much. When you can create beautiful websites which is generating you money or you can lift your dream by doing so. So with that said, I give Elementor an 8 out of 10. Now for the next thing. I want to talk to you about development. Because a lifetime license may seem very good. The problem is the cash flow of the company. Because if all the customers just...

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[gillesgomez]

I've been using Divi for my customers' website for years, since Divi 2 actually! I think this has been one of the best choices I made in my professional life. But now I must admit Elementor is ahead in term of speed and functionalities.
What I do like in Divi is that it is not only a page builder but also a theme. It offers a consistent interface from the theme settings to the builder itself. No compatibility issue and furthermore, the ET support/remote access and the embedded safe mode is great for debugging.
In Divi I also like the colorful UI. It helps identifying things after hours of work. I like the clean interface (I don't like sidebars) with pop-ups only when you need. I don't mind having to validate changes in a module pop-up and then save the page. It is just one more click, not a big deal.
But in Divi, I do not like the "speed" of the builder and yes, they could/should have added modules that users are waiting for for years!
Let's see what Divi5 will have to offer. ET says the goal is to have a solid new platform to build future functionalities, so we'll see.

[jelleuuhh]

I also purchased a DIVI lifetime license a few years ago and still use it for all my websites, even new ones. It is true that DIVI is slow in updating the latest time but I think that DIVI5 took more time then they hoped. So I think (and hope) that ones DIVI5 is there also new addons etc... will come faster in a DIVI6 version. They just don't focus on new things because the core from DIVI4 is OLD and it takes time to get it updated without breaking websites. So I still have hope for a better DIVI future...

[TaskSwitcherify]

This was a surprisingly fair, thorough and objective comparison despite the affiliate links 🙂 Good job, I'm impressed.

[NLEXPLORER]

The Divi Lifetime plan includes the Divi Builder plugin for life, but the Pro modules and options require a recurring subscription fee. This subscription model is how Elegant Themes makes money with Divi.

As an alternative to get premium Divi addons, I recommend considering Divi Pixel. It's a good plugin for a reasonable price.

Divi's built-in AI features for code snippets and image generation aren't very impressive in my experience. The ai for coding is fine but the image generation is not. I

An important missing feature in Divi is containers, but these can be added with custom code snippets.

Overall, Divi Builder is still a solid choice for page building, but may not be the best for advanced users who want more premium features. Competition in this space is increasing, so Elegant Themes has incentive to keep improving Divi.

[ClassicJay]

One of the great strengths of Elementor is being able to create your own loops in the Theme Builder. The power of ACF is increased tenfold thanks to this Elementor feature. I only use DIVI because it offers a lifetime license. And I am disappointed that DIVI5 does not offer any real new features.

[tonnyg]

I don't agree about extensions, I like Divi and I have a lifetime license but Divi can't get close to Elementor with an extensions, because for Divi you need to pay for extensions (I know because I paid for 6 packs of plugins and modules, around 300€ worth) just to find out later on that all of the extension from divi market place is a subscription, and after one year, you have no support which is okay but you don't have updates either so you are stuck with plugins you paid on the old version which is actually big security risk, that's why I'm done with Divi even though I have a lifetime license, and for Elementor you can get so many plugins that will give you all the elements you can think of and most of them are free with a paid version that you can upgrade

[movieloon]

I have purchased the Divi, so will stay there. I hope that Divi 5 justifies my perseverance. Talking about tutorials - Advanced Custom Fields - the tutorials are awful and I have tried so many and still cannot master, especially when I want to use ACF on Divi. Matt, you are the man for this. Please give us one of your great tutorials.

[ongjanette]

Its true! I'm finding it so hard to transition from graphic designer to web developer. I went thru several tutorials and still cant make heads or tails of it, or i constantly needed to review past lessons. I do desire to create customized sites as i find most templates and child themes are just a tad short of what i really want to achieve... Either that or i dont know how to customize them properly and with skill! 😜 I already bought Divi and refuse to spend any more until i earn something from THAT purchase before trying out Elementor! 😝 So thanks, Matt, for continuing to churn out Divi tutotrials and tips! :)

[plantifulalexandra]

Worked with Divi once, hated it.

With Elementor I'd recommend avoiding addons as they can cause issues but the joke is: You don't even need them, Elementor alone already is amazing, especially if you're able to use some custom code, no need for addons.

[mazlanhalim]

Great video Matt. Elementor fan boy here.

In terms of speed I've heard this new builder Breakdance is faster than Elementor.

That's what Breakdance creator claimed. He build Oxygen as well.
Have you tested it before? If you have, do make a comparison video with Elementor when you have the time. Thanks! 😊

[BishalM]

Nice Explanation Matt... now I wont switch from elementor...

[CarlosMinay]

Elementor seems better but the price system they have its not good for me at the moment, specially living in South America where the prices of websites are way lower than in other parts of the world. Maybe someday if there is an offer I can actually try to build a website using Elementor.

Divi in the other hand has a really good price and can make many sites with ONE license, but yea they are taking way TOO long to release DIVI 5....

[alexsmedile]

real life examples and experiences, thank you!!

[michaelfoerster]

Please make a comparison with bricks - your opinion on it would be interesting.

[Trypyyyy]

Divi is better, hands down. The amount of times Elementor broke down has persuaded me to never use it ever again

[dorisdraxler]

Hi! thank your for this video. I currently use Divi, but would eventually change to Elementor. I have already created a few pages with divi. do you have a recommendation what to do with them? or what happens, when I use Elementor and de-activate Divi. Thank you!

[abbodabbod]

Thank you.

We need a similar add-on to crocoblock work that works on Divi

[AdrianaRiveraPro]

you missed to talk about SEO? or compatibility with GA4, etc. thank you.

[ziggytonumaa]

divi fanboy here. i recently saw my fellow webdeveloper build a popup and contact form with elementor in seconds. for divi, a similar thing would take 2 additional plugins (bloat). i think the best path for divi going forward is to get with the program - add these 2 basic features in lightning speed, admit the shortsightedness of the lifetime plan, move existing clients to annual subsciption so that the developers have continuous cashmoney coming in. Another way Divi could win here is if they make the mobile menu customization a breeze. The current mobile menu is... crappy. You can tailor and css it yes ofc, but this is time-consuming. Divi must understand: they are not the only pagebuilder out there

[IllusionDezign]

Have you ever used Beaver Builder? If so what do you think of that?