Are you looking for a more robust page builder plugin? If so, there are plenty of alternatives to Elementor.

People are looking for Elementor alternatives, mainly due to pagespeed. It slows down your website loading speed significantly due to CSS, JavaScript, and HTML being loaded on each page. Elementor also increases the number of HTTP requests required to load a page.

With Google Core Web Vitals in place, most website owners are getting warned that their page load speed is slowing down. Elementor causes this issue for a lot of people.

Many people are looking for alternative page builders due to the lack of built-in white-labeling features of Elementor.

7 Best Elementor Alternatives

Divi Builder

Divi is probably the most well-known WordPress page builder at this point. In fact, Divi may be the reason why a lot of people don’t even know that Elementor exists.

While both plugins do have their strengths, Divi does win out in terms of visual appeal as well as the sheer amount of options.

There are a lot of similarities between both plugins, most notably when it comes to design-centric features. You’ll be able to add in custom fonts, background images and patterns, and even icons without any issue whatsoever.

It comes with a total of 110+ pre-made websites that you can customize and import into your site, as well as 880+ premade layouts. This can shave off a lot of time spent on setting up your site from scratch. Recently Elementor has also been caught up when it comes to the library of premade designs and layouts.

When it comes to page building, one standout feature is A/B split testing. It allows you to see which page designs are performing the best and tweak the others accordingly. In the case of Elementor, there are no such features. You end up using something like Google Optimize for this, and it works just fine.

Divi, unlike Elementor, doesn’t come with an inbuilt popup builder. You need to use their separate plugin called Bloom if you want popup functionality. It comes with almost the same amount of options as Elementor but also comes with analytics (for conversion tracking) so that you don’t end up using a separate plugin for that.

If you’re into team collaboration or client work, you’ll absolutely love Divi’s Role Editor. It allows you to be more selective about the elements that each user role has access to, whereas Elementor’s role editor only lets you control things at a whole-system level. If you want to give your clients or team members access to certain modules without giving them full-fledged front-end editing rights, Divi’s role editor is for you!

Other notable features of Divi:

• Multi-Select & Bulk Editing
• Advanced Code Editing
• Transform Controls & Effects
• Find & Replace Styles
• Filterable Settings & Search and Searchable Settings
• Divi Quick Actions
• Extend-able Styles
• Magic Color Manager
• Build Product Layouts with Divi’s WooCommerce Modules
• Builder View Modes
• Build Product Layouts with Divi’s WooCommerce Modules
• Divi marketplace to find hundreds of third party modules, themes, and layouts

When it comes to pricing, Divi does not come with a free version.

You have two straightforward options:

• Yearly Access – $89 with one year of support and updates.
• Lifetime Access – $249 with lifetime support and updates.

You can use Divi Builder across unlimited websites unlike Elementor, and you’ll receive updates and support for life. If you are interested you can consider some Divi alternatives.

Oxygen Builder

Oxygen is a WordPress visual builder, heavily geared towards techies, coders, who want to be able to design a website from the ground up. In fact, its makers claim it is “the missing link” between developers and advanced non-coders.

Their visual builder has a structure panel that lets you check the HTML structure of your elements. This helps you a lot if you want to be able to write custom HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for a specific element.

The learning curve is also a lot higher with Oxygen. It’s targeted at tech-savvy individuals who want to have full control over their site and page building.

It even allows you to implement PHP with its builder, and also provides advanced CSS layouts like flex, overflow, float, z-index, etc.

Elementor lets you write your custom CSS in the editor, but Oxygen gives you a chance to take it one step further by writing multiple external stylesheets and JavaScript code inside the editor as well as adding PHP before or after the content.

However, if you’re not that technical and just want something user-friendly enough for non-coders, this might not be the plugin for you. You’d be better off with Elementor or Divi.

Because of these advanced features, the resulting code is also a lot lighter compared to Elementor. This can translate into higher loading times and improve your site’s performance.

Other notable features of Oxygen Builder:

• Share blocks across websites
• Use Flexbox & CSS Grid, Visually
• Custom Icon Sets, fonts
• Classes & States, and conditions
• Loops, Repeaters, Lists,

Oxygen by far offers the most feasible plans:

It has four plans:

• Basic – A one-time $129 fee gets you lifetime support for unlimited websites, lifetime updates, and upgrades
• WooCommerce – It comes with WooCommerce integration at $169 lifetime
• Agency – It comes with Gutenberg support and also simplified client UI at $199
• Ultimate – It comes with an additional feature called composite elements that unlocks 19+ more elements at a cost of $229.

Brizy

Similar to Elementor and Divi, Brizy also helps you build websites in a visual way. You don’t need to deal with HTML and CSS or write a single line of code to get started.

They are really lightweight compared to Elementor or Divi. Brizy is also targeted towards beginners: the interface is clean and intuitive, which means no lengthy learning curve for new users.

With its page builder, extreme emphasis is given to the mobile-first approach. The builder helps you design your website to cater to different screen sizes.

Similar to Elementor, Brizy (review) also offers its own popup builder. You have various templates, then you get to add the content inside them.

You have various options to trigger the pop-ups like:

• On page load
• On click
• After inactivity
• On page exit intent
• Show after X
• On scroll
• Arriving from

But the downside is that these pop-ups can only be used with Brizy-powered pages.

Along with its WordPress plugin, Brizy also offers its cloud service. With this, you can save predefined elements to the cloud and reuse them across multiple projects thus saving your time if you are into client work.

Other notable features of Brizy:

• 4000+ Vector Icons
• Smart, Versatile Buttons
• Unrestricted Tabs Content
• WordPress eMail Integration
• WordPress Leads
• Pop-up Builder
• 14 Premium popup designs
• White Label Options

Premium plans of Brizy start at $49 per year for usage on up to three websites. In case you want unlimited website usage, then you need to pay $99 per year. This is pretty cheap compared to that of Elementor which gives you access to only three websites in their $99 per year plan.

But you do also need to note that Elementor has been around in the WordPress landscape for a long period of time compared to that of Brizy which is quite new to the game.

Thrive Suite (Thrive Themes)

Thrive themes is now Thrive Suite. This means you won’t be able to get access to the plugins individually.

Thrive Suite costs you $19 per month and gives you access to all their plugins.

• Thrive Themes (10 premium themes)
• Thrive Architect (drag and drop builder)
• Thrive Leads (lead generation tool)
• Thrive Quiz Builder (most intuitive WordPress quiz builder)
• Thrive Ultimatum (WordPress scarcity plugin)
• Thrive Ovation (WordPress testimonial plugin)
• Thrive Comments (WordPress most intuitive commenting system
• Thrive Clever Widget (control and customize widget visibility)
• Thrive Apprentice (membership platform and system)
• Thrive Headline Optimizer (the only WordPress headline optimizer that works)
• Thrive Membership (one simple membership pricing for unlimited usage)

Among these plugins, Thrive Architect and Thrive Leads are of interest to us.

Thrive Architect is a marketing-centric page builder for WordPress. It comes with dozens of conversion-friendly landing page templates.

Thrive Themes also recently introduced Thrive Theme builder that is similar to that of Elementor theme builder. It allows you to customize the aspects of your website that were conventionally customizable only with custom development.

Needless to say, if you want a design-centric page builder you may need to go with Divi or Oxygen Builder.

One major disadvantage of Thrive Architect is if you want to extend its functionalities (upon client requests), you can’t custom code and there is no support for third-party developers to build upon it.

Other notable features of Thrive Themes:

• Advanced Targeting
• Actionable Reporting & Insights
• A/B Testing Engine
• In-Line Forms
• Boost Conversions with SmartLinks & SmartExit

As I told you earlier, Thrive Suite costs you $19 per month, you get access to unlimited support, unlimited updates, access to Thrive University and you can install all their plugins on up to 25 websites.

Beaver Builder

The next one is Beaver Builder. It is a no-code and drag and drop WordPress based page builder similar to that of Elementor. It is also a freemium product, which means you have a free version of Beaver Builder that comes with a limited number of features.

When you compare the free version of Elementor with that of Beaver Builder, you feel that the Beaver Builder free plugin is more restrictive when it comes to the availability of blocks and customization options.

Compared to Elementor, Beaver Builder feels quite outdated. And they are failing to keep up with the modern design standards in their template directory.

Similar to Divi, Beaver Builder supports white-labeling if you’re in the web design business.

Other notable features of Beaver Builder:

• Shortcode Support
• User Access Controls
• Custom modules, JavaScript, actions, and filters
• Multisite Capability
• Client Editor Mode
• Content Page and Landing Page Templates

Beaver Builder costs $99 per year and you get access to use it on unlimited websites. In case you want a white labeling option, then you may need to go with their highest level agency plan that costs $399 per year.

You can refer to my guide on Elementor vs Beaver Builder vs Divi, if you want to compare these page builders.

Webflow

Unlike other page builders, Webflow is not a plugin for WordPress. It has its own cloud platform that you need to access via your browser or desktop application.

As it is not WordPress-based, it is quite reliable as Webflow doesn’t rely on any third-party products to support the builder, which means no chance of conflicts with other plugins and themes.

Think of Webflow as a SaaS-version of Oxygen WordPress Builder, you get ultimate design flexibility and also developer freedom to manage your own code.

Webflow has more than 200 responsive templates that are completely customizable. The themes are free and paid, with the option to choose a blank design to customize it from scratch.

When it comes to pricing, just like Wix and Weebly, Webflow also offers a free plan for you to get started with your website.

Other notable features of Webflow:

• Build CSS grid–powered layouts visually
• Clean, compliant, exportable code
• Over 2,000 web font families
• Add CSS filters to anything
• 3D transforms and animations
• CMS API
• Paginate Collection Lists
• RSS feeds for CMS Collections
• Buy domains from Google Domains, right inside Webflow
• Auto-generated XML sitemap
• CMS whitelabeling

When it comes to subscriptions, it offers two main subscriptions i.e. site plans and account plans.

Site Plans are as follows:

Basic – $12/mo. Best for a simple site that doesn’t need a CMS. It supports 100 pages, 25,000 monthly visits, 100 form submissions/mo, custom domain, CDN(50 GB).

CMS – $16/mo. Best for a blog or other content-driven site. It supports 100 pages, 100,000 monthly visits, 1000 form submissions/mo, custom domain, CDN(200 GB)

Business – $36/mo. Best for a high-traffic marketing site or blog. It supports 100 pages, 500,000 monthly visits, 10,000 form submissions/mo, custom domain, CDN(400 GB)

Account plans: In this 2 plans are available – Individual and team plans.

Individual plans pricing:

Starter – Free plan. With this you can handle 2 projects, also get access to client billing, free staging area.

Lite – $16/mo with the ability to handle 10 projects, enhanced staging area, unlimited project transfers, code export.

Pro – $35/mo. Everything in Lite, plus unlimited projects, white labeling, site password protection.

Team plans pricing:

Team – $35/person/mo – Best to work on projects together in a collaborative, shared dashboard.

This plan includes all the features of the pro plan and also:

• Unlimited projects
• Client billing
• Enhanced staging
• Code export
• White labeling
• Site password protection
• Team dashboard

Enterprise – Contact support for the pricing

Visual Composer

Visual Composer is another flagship WordPress plugin from WPBakery. It has a library of over 350 elements but most of the elements are only available in their premium version. If you would like to access more elements there are a lot of third-party add-ons available that are special on CodeCanyon.

You get access to a lot of templates with Visual Composer. Personally, I would say the templates are a bit dated compared to that of the templates offered by Elementor or Divi.

Especially after the WordPress Gutenberg update, the visual composer broke many sites, and it was a complete nightmare for agency owners. But recently they are having a strong comeback, and one to watch out for.

Other notable features of Visual Composer:

• Cloud marketplace
• GIPHY gif library
• Unsplash stock images
• Visual Composer Insights
• Maintenance mode
• Popup builder
• Lightbox for images and video
• Lazy load media
• Multilanguage ready

Visual Composer offers three different plans:

• Single Website license at $49 per year.
• Three Websites license at $99 per year.
• Developers license for 1,000 websites at $349 per year.

Conclusion

I hope this post helped you in finding the perfect Elementor alternative. Here are my top 3 picks.

Divi is one of the best Elementor alternatives. Its split testing, integration with Bloom, WooCommerce modules are worth the money you spend.

If you are a developer or a coder who wants to develop beautiful websites Oxygen Builder may be worth buying. You can add css and HTML to customize the site to your liking.

Brizy is a new contender to Elementor. It comes with a popup builder and has a cloud service to manage your assets so that you can use it when needed.

I hope you found this post on Elementor alternatives helpful.