Dorik vs Elegant Themes Comparison 2026
Both answer the same complaint, which is paying per site. Dorik puts unlimited sites on one subscription from $20.75 a month billed annually, hosting included. Elegant Themes licenses Divi for unlimited WordPress sites at $89 a year. The cheaper figure comes with a condition: you have to be running WordPress, and paying for hosting separately.
At a glance
- Dorik starts cheaper, at $20.75.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Dorik | Elegant Themes | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $20.75 | From $89 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free trial, then paid | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Not stated | Not stated |
| Free trial | 7 days | Not stated |
| API | Not stated |
Dorik
Unlimited sites on one subscription
Dorik prices by subscription rather than per site, so an agency or a person with several projects pays once instead of once each, and that is the entire argument for it. Hosting is included. The editor is block-based and the CMS handles the ordinary cases without a plugin. The trade against the larger builders is a smaller template library and fewer integrations, which is felt most by anybody whose site needs to talk to something unusual.
Our note
The unlimited-sites framing is the reason to look, so compare it against the total of what you currently pay across every site rather than against one subscription. Note that the competitor totals printed on its pricing page are Wix, Webflow and Squarespace prices, not Dorik's.
Elegant Themes
Divi, on a licence for unlimited sites
Elegant Themes sells Divi, a WordPress page builder whose licence covers unlimited sites rather than counting them, which is why it has stayed in agencies for a decade. The visual editor works on the front end, so layout changes are made on the page rather than in a preview. A large marketplace of child themes and layouts sits beside it. Divi generates its own markup, and moving a site off it later means rebuilding, which is the cost nobody prices in at the start.
Why people weigh these two
- Elegant Themes instead of Dorik
- Elegant Themes sells Divi on a licence covering unlimited sites for $89, the same pay-once-for-every-project argument run inside WordPress.
- Dorik instead of Elegant Themes
- Dorik also covers unlimited sites on one subscription, starting at $20.75 a month against Divi's $89 a year, and it is sold as a trial rather than a licence you renew annually.
Which one should you pick
Elegant Themes is the cheapest per-site figure in this category by a wide margin, and $89 a year has been the standing price for a long time. It suits a freelancer or studio building many WordPress sites, with front-end editing that rewards designing by adjustment rather than by specification. Two things to weigh: hosting is your problem, and a client site built on Divi is expensive to move off WordPress later.
Dorik includes hosting and needs no WordPress install, which makes the total bill easier to predict. Compare it against the sum of what you currently pay across every site rather than against a single subscription, since that is the comparison it is built to win. Its integration library is smaller, so an unusual requirement will hit that limit before it hits any pricing one.
Common questions
- Is Elegant Themes really cheaper?
- On licence price, yes: $89 a year for unlimited sites against Dorik's $249 a year for its Personal plan. Add WordPress hosting for each site and the totals move closer together.
- Does Dorik include hosting?
- Yes, on every plan, along with a 7-day full-access trial. Its separate agency plan is $39 a month, which the pricing page frames as $13 per site.
- What is the catch with building client sites on Divi?
- Leaving it later means rebuilding the pages. Factor that cost in before adopting it for a site the client might one day take elsewhere.
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