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Both cover landing pages & funnels. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Funnels, courses and email in one subscription
Landing pages built inside WordPress
ClickFunnels | Elementor | |
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| Starting price (they differ) | From $97 | From $5 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free trial, then paid | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Not stated |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Not stated |
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Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Funnels, courses and email in one subscription
ClickFunnels sells the whole sequence rather than the page: opt-in, offer, upsell, email follow-up and a course to deliver what you sold. Everything lives in one account, which is the argument for it and also the argument against, since leaving means moving five things at once. The community around it is a large part of what people pay for.
Our note
The maths only works if you would otherwise be paying for a page builder, an email tool and a course platform separately. If you already have two of the three, Unbounce or Leadpages will do the pages for a quarter of the money.
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Landing pages built inside WordPress
Elementor is a visual builder for WordPress, so the landing page and the site it belongs to are the same installation rather than two subscriptions pointing at each other. Templates, a theme builder and dynamic content come on the cheapest plan. Popups, custom CSS and the ecommerce widgets arrive one tier up. Everything here assumes WordPress is already running somewhere, and the hosting bill is separate from this one.
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| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
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| Runs on | Web | Web |
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| Covers | Landing Pages & Funnels, Courses & Coaching, Email Marketing & Automation | Landing Pages & Funnels, Website Builders |
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| Works with | Nothing in particular | Nothing in particular |
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| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
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| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
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| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
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Our note
Budget for Advanced Solo rather than Essential, because popups and custom CSS are the two things a landing page tends to need and the gap between the tiers is two dollars a month. Remember the hosting is separate: this is a plugin, and the total cost of a WordPress landing page is this plus a host.
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