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Both cover website builders. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Divi, on a licence for unlimited sites
A site builder that edits like a document
Elegant Themes | Typedream | |
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| Starting price (they differ) | From $89 | From $15 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Paid subscription | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier (they differ) | No | Yes |
| Billing | Not stated | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
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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.
Our note
Buy the $89 tier unless the marketplace credit in the bundle covers something you were already going to purchase, because the bundle's saving is measured against products you may not want. Factor the rebuild cost before adopting Divi for a client site they might later take elsewhere.
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A site builder that edits like a document
Typedream builds a website the way a document is written, with slash commands and blocks rather than a canvas and a grid, which suits somebody who wants a site finished this afternoon. A free tier publishes on a subdomain. Paid plans add a custom domain, a free first-year .xyz registration and the CMS. The document metaphor is also the ceiling: a layout that needs precise control over where things sit is not what this is for.
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| Their cut | None | None |
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| Runs on | Web | Web |
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| Covers | Website Builders, Design & Graphics | 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
Try the free tier against your actual homepage copy before paying, because whether this suits you is entirely a question of whether your site is document-shaped. If it is, you will be finished faster here than anywhere else on this list.