Duda vs SGEN

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.

SGEN is a CMS that brings hosting, a visual site builder, and core modules into one system. The builder has 48 native components and publishes server-rendered HTML; SGEN says its 23 native modules are included on every plan, including Sandbox. The native store has no SGEN transaction fee on any plan. Its Google Integrations hub covers Analytics 4, Tag Manager, Search Console, Google Ads, Business Profile, and reCAPTCHA. The Foundation Pack includes hosting, SSL, CDN, WAF, and security patching on every plan. A Tracking Consent module holds Google tags until visitors accept and records accept or decline decisions in a per-session log. Sandbox supports unlimited sites without a card or time limit, but they use an SGEN staging URL; a paid plan is needed to use a custom domain. Paid plans start at $39 a month billed annually and include a two-week trial. SGEN says it serves freelance designers, small and mid-sized agencies, and small businesses. Documentation covers setup, platform tasks, and SGEN workflows.