Duda vs Pagesmith

Duda is a website-building platform for agencies and professionals creating and managing sites for businesses. It includes hosting and supports custom domains, contact forms, SEO controls, blogging, and booking tools. AI features can generate copy, sections, full sites, SEO metadata, image alt text, and custom widgets. Sites can contain up to 1,000 pages. Plans include one published project on Basic and Team, and four on Agency and White Label; Team lists three seats, while Agency and White Label list six. All account plans include at least one site, and additional sites have separate charges. Duda provides a REST API for automations and integrations including Zapier, Google Sheets, Airtable, MCP, and its app store. The platform can be white-labeled, including its logo and domain. Duda says its platform is hosted on AWS and its websites use AWS and CloudFront. The listed Basic annual plan costs $19 a month, billed annually; Basic monthly costs $25 a month, billed monthly. A 14-day trial and 30-day money-back guarantee are listed. There is no free plan. Duda is based in Palo Alto, California, and was founded in 2009.

Pagesmith generates, edits, publishes and manages websites from a written brief or an existing public website URL. Pages can be refined with natural-language AI prompts, a visual point-and-click editor or code workflows, with previews before publishing. It creates Astro projects with static-first HTML and supports React for interactive components; a built-in MDX editor handles blog posts and other structured content. Search controls include crawlable HTML, metadata, sitemaps, canonical URLs, robots settings and structured data, while search engines determine indexing and ranking. Managed hosting uses Cloudflare and includes SSL management, a web application firewall, DDoS protection, compression and object storage, subject to plan limits. Pagesmith supports forms and lead capture, describes an included SQLite database for dynamic content and user data, and integrates with analytics and advertising tools. The REST API can list projects, update files, publish sites and manage integrations, with limits of 60 read and 10 write requests per minute. The Free plan costs nothing for one published site; Pro costs $19 a month for up to three sites. Business costs $49 a month and Agency costs $99 a month. Eligible plans can export a standard Astro project.