Duda alternatives for freelancers and small studios who manage a few client sites
Duda says it was designed to help professionals build and manage websites at scale, and its plans show it: sites priced per account, unlimited client accounts, team seats and a full white-label tier. A freelancer with five clients may not need that machinery. The Duda alternatives below suit smaller rosters; agencies running dozens of sites will often be better off staying.
Who Duda is built for
Duda's website builder page is written for agencies and platforms: client management with permissions you set per client, the option to white-label the whole product, and saved sections teams reuse across sites. Its AI page adds a Copilot and MCP support for building and managing sites in plain language, bulk SEO text, and site generation from a client brief or an onboarding form.
The pricing page, as of 24 October 2026, says prices are in USD and apply per account, with annual plans charged upfront.
| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual billing, per month | Sites included |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $25 | $19 | One |
| Team | $39 | $29 | One |
| Agency | $69 | $52 | Four |
| White Label | $199 | $149 | Four |
Extra sites cost $19 a month or $171 a year on Basic, and $17 a month or $168 a year on the other plans, according to the page's FAQ. For a studio with a handful of small sites, the per-site charges are the line to watch, and that's the usual starting point for comparing Duda alternatives.
What a Duda export leaves behind
Duda's support article on site export says export is available on the Agency plan and higher, for published sites up to 1 GB, as a ZIP of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and media with separate folders for each device. It also says contact forms, personalisation and other dynamic features stop working; the store, dynamic pages, the 404 page and membership data aren't exported; the blog comes out only as an RSS file; and Duda can't support the site once it's moved.
- Export each published site while you're on a plan that allows it, and open the files to check them.
- Export store products to CSV from the store control panel, as the article suggests.
- Save blog posts from the RSS file or copy them out by hand.
- List each client's domain, registrar and DNS records, and who holds the login.
- Tell clients before anything changes, especially if they edit their own content in Duda.
Four options for a smaller studio
| Option | Suits | From its own pages |
|---|---|---|
| Webflow | Designers handing CMS sites to clients | Its pricing page lists a Freelancer Workspace at $16 a month billed yearly, free agency and freelancer guests, and code export on paid Workspace plans |
| Dorik | Small agencies that bill clients through a branded dashboard | Its pricing page lists a white-label dashboard and client billing, with Agency at $99 a month on monthly billing |
| Carrd | Lots of very small one-page client sites | Pro Standard is $19 a year for ten sites with custom domains and forms |
| Anticode | Small business sites built from a client's description | English-only builder and pages; no client self-editing accounts like Duda's |
Where Anticode fits
Anticode suits the freelancer whose bottleneck is building, not account administration. You describe the client's business, the Architect proposes a plan, and the build follows one of seven design systems with design and security checks before it can publish. For sign-off, a client review link shows the current preview to a client with no account; they can leave comments tied to a section, and the link expires after 14 days by default or when you revoke it. Version history lets you preview and restore earlier saves.
For a studio, Team workspaces have an owner, admins and members, and members can't delete projects or take sites down. The Agency plan is a Team workspace with its own allowance and seats, plus white-label client sites with no Anticode branding. Each client site can go on the client's own domain. For the delivery side, see white-label website delivery and managing several client sites.
Where Duda does more
- Client editing accounts. Duda gives clients their own logins with set permissions. Anticode's clients review and comment; they don't get an editor.
- Stores and memberships. Anticode has no cart or member areas; sales go through payment links.
- Embeds and widgets. Anticode pages run no scripts and can't embed booking or map widgets.
- Languages. Anticode builds English sites only.
- No import. A Duda export can't be loaded into Anticode.
When Duda is worth keeping
If you manage many client sites, want clients editing their own content under rules you set, or sell sites under your own brand to a large base, Duda's account-level pricing and client tools are built for exactly that, and its AI features lean the same way. The smaller your roster, the more of that you pay for without using; the larger it is, the more it earns its keep.
Questions people ask
How many sites do Duda plans include?
Duda's pricing FAQ says Basic and Team include one site, and Agency and White Label include four. Extra sites are charged per month or per year.
Can I export a Duda site?
On Agency and higher. The export is static files: forms and other dynamic features stop working, and the store and dynamic pages aren't included.
Which duda alternatives are white-label?
Dorik lists a white-label dashboard on its plans. Anticode's Agency plan removes Anticode branding from client sites.
Can my clients edit their own Anticode site?
Not with their own login. They review the preview and comment through a link; you make the changes.
Sources
- Duda website builder, checked
- Duda AI, checked
- Duda pricing, checked
- Duda Support: Site Export, checked
- Webflow pricing, checked
- Dorik pricing, checked
- Carrd Pro plans, checked