When it comes to web design and web development there is an elephant in the room that many people seem to be avoiding to address and that is tools like Webflow and Elementor.

The “No Code” Movement

There is a movement currently called “No Code” which is about using new technologies to create digital products without using code.

One of the main purposes of this movement and the tools behind it is to give the freedom to pretty much everyone to create custom creations without the complications that coding brings, such as the big learning curve and many other complications during the process.

Based on the No Code ideology some absolutely amazing tools have been created, tools like the one we will discuss today, Webflow and Elementor.

How good are such tools?

The two web design tools are absolutely amazing and for a web designer or a person who simply wants to make custom websites without becoming a developer, they are an absolute blessing.

For the longest time, every noncoding tool for website creations was looked like a template type of work in which you don’t get a variety of full customization for your projects.

This is now changing completely with Webflow and Elementor who give you pretty much unlimited customization of your projects.

Now let’s talk about which one I personally feel like a better product.

Are they competitors?

I’ve been using both for quite sometimes now and I am really satisfied with my experience with both products.

Many people think that Webflow and Elementor are competitors and maybe to some degree this is true, but I don’t see them as competitors because they cover different needs.

Let’s break it down

Elementor is combined with WordPress, you cannot use Elementor without WordPress, so this makes it not only a page builder but a website builder because Elementor takes advantage of the arguably best CMS out there which is WordPress.

On the other hand, when I’m using Webflow I feel it more as a Page Builder slash Code Generator. And by the way the code I generate with Webflow is even cleaner than the one I can produce myself, which I think it’s mindblowing and it was what made me pay for Webflow.

Webflow does offer CMS but for me personally, I didn’t find their deal appealing at all and I don’t see myself using their CMS anywhere in the near future.

Webflow – Pros & Cons

With Webflow you will be creating pretty much unlimited designs, whatever you see or you imagine you can recreate it with Webflow.

On the downside, there is a significant learning curve to mastering Webflow’s workflow (pun not intended) and I’m not talking about creating basic info page, but being able to recreate a fully custom website 3-5 pages from top to bottom.

Obviously the biggest benefit of Webflow is the code that it produces, which was something that I absolutely loved because it allows you to create clean code without writing code as weird as it may sound.

Something truly mindblowing about Webflow is that if you put the time to master it, you can produce custom HTML & CSS based designs faster than an experienced Frontend developer.

Elementor – Pros & Cons

With Elementor you can create highly customizable pages but unlike Webflow I wouldn’t go as far as to call it unlimited customization.

The huge thing about Elementor is that it goes with WordPress, meaning that every design that you create has the arguably best CMS in the world and most nontechie clients like using WordPress’s CMS because they often have seen it or worked with it before.

Another great feature of Elementor is the reusable components aka “blocks” that you can very easily get from other projects. Let’s say you’ve created an amazing looking pricing table, you can simply copy-paste it into other projects.

The downside of Elementor in my personal experience is the speed of the website itself. Often my Elementor web pages are loading slow when I finish designing it.

So which one?

As I said i don’t see the two as competitors I use both for different purposes, if I have to design a custom single pages, then I would go with Webflow especially if it’s for a job that requires you to produce, then editable HTML & CSS code.

Bro, you said that’s a comparison which one do you prefer?!

Fine, most of the time I find myself using Elementor more, you happy now?



Joke aside, for my own projects including freelance I am using Elementor, but when I go to standard 9/5 web design or web development job I use Webflow more, because of the very quality code that it produces which is obviously editable after that by colleagues.

I think Webflow is the superior individual page builder, but Elementor is the superior overall package, meaning Website with client-friendly CMS.

Both have are great in their area and at the end of the day are amazing progress for creating awesome websites.

Page Builders Like Elementor & Webflow vs Coding

Overall Webflow and Elementor are on the same team which is the “no code” workflow.

With this comes the question of how do such tools compare with hand coding.

The biggest and undeniable advantage of coding is the full customization of everything you do.

The biggest disadvantage of coding is that the learning curve is very big and the everyday work process is not very fast and rational at all.

All of this leads to overpricing of many products.

On the other hand page builders can create things faster and often offer reusability of many things.

Another big advantage of Page Builders is that the work process is visual, you see what you’re doing in real-time, which obviously helps a lot have a perception of how everything you create looks and feels from user perspective.

At the end of the day we all came together to create web projects in the best and most rational way possible, so whatever your choice is, go with it. To me personally, things will move to the direction of Page Builders taking a big portion of the market for small projects while coding will be used for editing purposes or creating much more complicated tasks.