# Elementor — Website Builders

Elementor by Elementor Ltd. holds a panel rating of 3/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-11-04. Provenance: provenance unknown; sovereignty: 1 of 6 dimensions proven.

- Vendor: Elementor Ltd. (https://elementor.com)
- Category: [Website Builders](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): provenance unknown
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/elementor
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/elementor/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/elementor/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-11-04 · evaluated 2026-11-04 · oldest source captured 2026-11-03

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: Elementor Ltd.
- Headquarters: Incorporated in Israel [S2]
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
- Free plan: Yes, per the vendor’s own page [S5]

## The panel's verdict

Elementor is a drag-and-drop website builder for WordPress with hosting on Google Cloud behind a Cloudflare Enterprise CDN; persona-weighted totals ran 5.5-6.3. The strongest marks went to the editor — a documented design system of Classes, Variables, Components and Interactions plus AI that generates editable native pages — and to legal compliance: GDPR opt-in consent blocking non-essential scripts by default, CSV-exportable consent logs, and a published data processing agreement with EU standard contractual clauses. Weakest is SEO and marketing: "built-in SEO tools" is a bare phrase, and we found no public information on titles, sitemaps, redirects or analytics. Sovereignty sits at 4-5: EEA customers contract with Elementor EU Ltd. in Cyprus, the default entity is Elementor Ltd. in Israel, and the hosting region is not stated. Forms and business spans 4 to 6; the low mark rests on appointment booking we found no public information on and the terms' ban on uploading patient or medical information. Pricing transparency publishes prices to widget counts; we found no public information on the domain renewal price.

**Speaks for it:**
- Design system of Classes, Variables, Components and Interactions, with AI generating full pages and forms as editable native content.
- GDPR opt-in consent blocks non-essential scripts by default, with consent logs exportable as CSV, GPC/DNT handling and Google Consent Mode v2.
- Published data processing agreement with EU standard contractual clauses and a sub-processor list in Schedule 3, with EEA customers contracting with Elementor EU Ltd. in Nicosia, Cyprus.
- Hosting on named infrastructure — Google Cloud behind a Cloudflare Enterprise CDN — with 99.9% uptime, 109ms time to first byte and per-plan backup days.
- Prices public down to widget counts: Essential at €5/Mo billed annually at €60/yr; One at €15/Mo billed annually at €180/yr, renewing at the regular rate €228/yr.

**Held against it:**
- SEO and marketing scored 3-4, and we found no public information on page titles, descriptions, sitemaps, redirects or any analytics.
- Export covers sites and templates with Classes and Variables, while we found no public information on a self-service restore, mailboxes on your own domain, or a full content-and-media export.
- We found no public information on form field types, spam protection, notifications, or where form entries are stored.
- The default contracting entity is Elementor Ltd. in Israel under Israeli law; we found no public information naming a hosting region, sub-processor locations, or an ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification.
- We found no public information on the domain renewal price after the free first year, cancellation notice periods or transaction fees, so a second-year total cannot be computed from the captured pages.

**Best for:**
- You want a drag-and-drop editor with a real design system and AI page generation whose output stays editable native content.
- You run an online store and want cart, checkout, customer account dashboards, unlimited products and abandoned-cart email built in.
- You need GDPR opt-in consent with CSV-exportable logs, GPC handling and Google Consent Mode v2, plus a data processing agreement with EU standard contractual clauses you can file.
- You prioritise fast pages on named infrastructure: Google Cloud, Cloudflare Enterprise CDN, 99.9% uptime, 109ms time to first byte.

**Avoid if:**
- You handle patient or medical information — the terms strictly forbid uploading it to the services.
- You are an organisation with more than fifty employees — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it
- You rely on the free consent plan — consent logs there are automatically removed after 30 days.
- You require an EU-only contracting chain — the default entity is Elementor Ltd. in Israel, and aggregated and de-identified data may be used for purposes including AI model training.

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price, or the judge found no public information on that criterion.

| Criterion | The Small-Business Owner | The Freelance Web Designer | The Marketing Lead | The Practice Owner | The Data Protection Officer | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Editor, templates & design control | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 4/5 | 4/5 | 4/5 | 3.5/5 |
| Hosting, domains & portability | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 |
| SEO, analytics & visibility | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 |
| Forms, bookings & business features | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Imprint, privacy & cookie compliance | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 4/5 | 3.5/5 |
| European sovereignty | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** |

### The judges

- **The Small-Business Owner** (v1.0): Runs a joinery with six staff and builds the company website on a Sunday afternoon. Wants a template that looks like a craftsman and not like a start-up, to be found when someone nearby searches for a carpenter, an enquiry form that lands in the inbox, the imprint and cookie banner handled without a lawyer, and a price that is still clear in the second year.
- **The Freelance Web Designer** (v1.0): Builds about twenty sites a year for doctors, restaurants and consultants, and looks after them afterwards. Wants real control over layout, mobile breakpoints and type, reusable sections across client sites, a client login that cannot break the design, backups that restore in one click, and a way to take the site and its content elsewhere if the client or the tool changes.
- **The Marketing Lead** (v1.0): Owns the website of a forty-person engineering firm and is measured on enquiries, not on page views. Wants landing pages built without waiting for the agency, clean URLs, redirects and structured data, analytics that work without a consent wall in front of every visit, and form entries that reach the CRM instead of a shared mailbox.
- **The Practice Owner** (v1.0): Runs a physiotherapy practice with four therapists and a waiting list. Wants patients to book and cancel appointments online, a contact form that does not send health details around in plain email, a site an older patient can read and use, a cookie banner that holds up if the regulator asks, and the data kept in Europe.
- **The Data Protection Officer** (v1.0): Serves as external data protection officer for thirty small companies and reviews their websites once a year. Wants a consent banner that blocks scripts and embeds until the visitor agrees, fonts and maps that do not leave for the US on page load, a data processing agreement and subprocessor list that can be filed, form entries with a retention period, and hosting that is named rather than implied.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has seen "your website for 1 euro" renew at thirty, templates that only exist inside the builder, an export that turns out to be the blog posts alone, and a domain that costs a fee to move. Reads "GDPR compliant" next to a cookie banner that loads trackers before anyone clicks, and a subprocessor list that stops at the CDN — and asks what leaving would cost.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: 1 of 6 dimensions proven.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Incorporated in IL | 0/2 | [S2] |
| Hosting location | Not determined | — | — |
| Hosting options | Not determined | — | — |
| Open source | Not determined | — | — |
| Data processing agreement | Not determined | — | — |
| Transfer impact assessment | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Bug bounty: Community-driven bug bounty program with round-the-clock crowdsourced vulnerability detection [S4]
- CCPA no sale: yes [S11]
- Cookies: yes [S2]
- Data incident notification: without undue delay [S11]
- DPA: yes · yes [S2]
- DPA available: yes [S11]
- DPA last updated: September 2025 [S11]
- Dpiassistance: yes · yes [S11]
- Export restrictions: yes [S2]
- Frameworks covered: GDPR · UK GDPR · CCPA [S11]
- HIPAA prohibited: no [S2]
- Not full GDPR guarantee: no [S10]
- Roles: Processor · Controller [S11]
- Scc EU: yes · EU 2021/914 [S11]
- Scc governing law: courts of Cyprus · Cyprus [S11]
- Sensitive data restriction: yes [S11]
- Subprocessor list: Schedule 3 · yes [S11]
- Subprocessor objection period: 7 [S11]
- Subprocessor update subscription: privacy@elementor.com [S11]
- Tom details: legal@elementor.com · yes [S11]
- Trust center: Trust Center describes security efforts [S4]

**Data**
- Aggregated data: Elementor · yes [S2]
- Consent log export CSV: yes · CSV [S10]
- Consent log fields: anonymized Consent ID · country · consent status · categories selected · timestamp [S10]
- Consent quota reset: beginning of each billing cycle [S10]
- Data location section: yes [S2]
- Free plan log retention: yes · 30 [S10]
- Free plan scan quota: yes · 25 [S10]
- Return deletion: yes [S11]

**Hosting**
- Backups: yes [S2]
- Contracting entities: Elementor UK Limited (London) · Elementor Inc. (Dover, DE) · Elementor EU Ltd. (Nicosia, Cyprus) · Elementor Ltd. (Israel) [S2]
- Ssl certificates: yes [S2]

**Integrations**
- Addons: Third-party addons ecosystem supported [S4]
- Class variable export import: Classes and Variables exportable/importable with sites and templates since v4.0 [S5]
- Developer API: Official Developers Center for extending and integrating with Elementor [S4]
- Developers docs and blog: yes · Developers Blog · Developers Documentation [S4]
- Google consent mode API: Google API · yes [S10]
- Gpc behavior: yes · Deny [S10]
- Money back guarantee: 30-day money-back guarantee [S5]
- Third party licenses: https://elementor.com/licenses [S2]

**Legal**
- Account age requirement: 18 [S2]
- Entity: Elementor Ltd. · Tuval 40, Ramat Gan 5252247, Israel · 515188365 [S2]
- Entity: Elementor Ltd. [S11]
- Governing law: England and Wales · Delaware · Cyprus · Israel [S2]
- Liability cap: amount paid in the 30 days prior to damage [S2]
- Modification notice: 45 [S11]
- No class action: yes [S2]

**Pricing**
- Advanced cloud templates: Advanced · 30 [S9]
- Advanced plan: Advanced · 3 · annual · 108 · 9 [S9]
- Advanced solo ecommerce included: Advanced Solo · yes [S9]
- Advanced solo plan: Advanced Solo · 1 · EUR · 84 · 7 [S7]
- Advanced solo plan: Advanced Solo · 1 · annual · 84 · 7 [S9]
- Advanced solo widgets: Advanced Solo · 85 [S9]
- Auto renewal: yes · yes [S2]
- Elementor one inclusion: Elementor One [S10]
- Elementor one sites: Elementor One · 1000 [S10]
- Enterprise threshold: enterprise@elementor.com · business or enterprise license · 50 [S2]
- Essential ecommerce: Essential · no · no [S9]
- Essential plan: Essential · 1 · EUR · 60 · 5 [S7]
- Essential plan: Essential · 1 · annual · 60 · 5 [S9]
- Essential popups custom code: Essential · no · no [S9]
- Essential widgets: Essential · 57 [S9]
- Fee change notice: 30 [S2]
- Free domain eligibility: voucher via My Elementor dashboard · purchase a Hosting plan within Promotion term [S8]
- Free domain no renewal: yes · no [S8]
- Free domain promotion: first year · yes · yes [S8]
- Free domain promotion dates: at company discretion · 2024-09-16 [S8]
- Free domain restrictions: 1 · yes [S8]
- Free plan: 0 · yes [S10]
- Free plan limits: 1 · 800 · 25 · 30 [S10]
- Host cloud single site: 1 · 10 · 15 · annually · 180 [S3]
- Money back annual only: yes [S9]
- Money back guarantee: all plans · 30 [S3]
- Money back guarantee: 30 · yes [S7]
- Money back guarantee: 30 · yes [S10]
- Money back guarantee: 30 [S9]
- Multi site 3 limits: 30 · 50000 · 40 · 30 [S3]
- One credits usage: AI generation · image optimization · site accessibility · cookie consent · email deliverability [S9]
- One email deliverability: One · 60 [S9]
- One included services: yes · 30 · yes · yes · 60 · 120 · 60 [S7]
- One included services: One · yes · 120 · 60 [S9]
- One plan: One · 1 · EUR · 180 · 15 · 25000 · 228 [S7]
- One plan: One · 1 · 180 · 15 · 21 · 228 · 25000 · 19 [S9]
- Quota grace period: yes [S10]
- Refund abuse limits: yes · 1 [S2]
- Refund domain deduction: 30 · yes [S8]
- Single site limits: 7 · 10000 · 10 · 10 [S3]
- Taxes: yes · yes · yes [S2]
- Tier capabilities: accessibility tools · image optimization · AI · additional capabilities to core plugin [S5]
- V4 cost: yes · 0 [S5]
- VAT: yes [S3]

**Product**
- 24 7 support: 24/7 [S3]
- Accessibility ready: yes [S10]
- Accessibility scanner: accessibility scanning with AI guidance [S9]
- Account dashboard: customer account dashboard [S9]
- AI features: third-party AI providers · yes [S2]
- AI generation: AI generation of code, copy, images, layouts [S9]
- AI page builder: Generates full Elementor pages, design systems, forms, and loops as real, structured Elementor content [S6]
- AI refund exclusion: no [S2]
- Ally accessibility: Ally · accessibility [S9]
- Ally data: CDN Data [S11]
- Angie AI: Angie agentic AI assistant · WordPress-native [S9]
- Angie bulk actions: bulk product edits, SKU uploads, pricing changes [S9]
- Angie data: Data input into Angie service (prompts, commands, text, or other content submitted by Customer for AI processing) [S11]
- Atomic disable path: Atomic features can be disabled via WP Admin > Elementor > Editor > Settings > Atomic Editor [S5]
- Atomic elements: yes · Atomic Elements [S7]
- Atomic elements capabilities: Classes · Variables · Interactions · Components [S5]
- Auto scaling: yes [S3]
- Banner design in elementor: Elementor Pro for fully custom banners via Popups · yes [S10]
- Banner master toggle: yes · yes [S10]
- Capabilities list: full pages · design systems · complex forms · dynamic loops [S6]
- Cart customization: customizable cart [S9]
- CCPA opt out: opt-out · CCPA · yes [S10]
- Cdn: Cloudflare Enterprise CDN [S3]
- Checkout customization: customizable checkout pages [S9]
- Classes variables v3 widgets: no · yes [S5]
- Conditional css: yes · native and conditional CSS [S7]
- Consent expiry configurable: 365 · 0 [S10]
- Cookie policy generator: coming soon · no [S10]
- Cookie scanning categorization: Necessary · Functional · Analytics · Advertising [S10]
- Cookiez wordpress consent: cookie consent plugin for WordPress · Cookiez [S10]
- Description: Front-end drag-and-drop website builder for WordPress [S4]
- Design system features: Classes · Variables · Components [S5]
- Design system prompt: Creates a design system of Classes and Variables from brand info or a screenshot [S6]
- Digital physical products: yes · yes · yes · yes [S9]
- Dom guide: Reduce DOM size guide [S7]
- Dom reduction: yes · reduced DOM size per element [S7]
- Domains: yes [S9]
- Editable output: yes [S6]
- Element caching ttfb: improves TTFB by up to 70% · Element Caching [S7]
- Elementor host: Host · hosting for storefronts [S9]
- Enterprise plan: auto-scaling with custom thresholds · enterprise-grade security · Single Sign-On · professional advisory sessions · security audits · platinum support · yes [S3]
- Feature request voting: yes [S4]
- Five star reviews: 6.5K+ [S7]
- Form builder: Form Builder · yes [S9]
- Free domain: yes [S3]
- Free migration: yes [S3]
- GDPR opt in: opt-in · GDPR · yes [S10]
- Geo targeting availability: yes [S10]
- Google consent mode v2: yes [S10]
- Gpc dnt support: yes [S10]
- Grid loop availability: Grid and Loop Atomic Elements in development [S5]
- Hosting service: static hosting · SSL certificates · domains · backups · yes [S2]
- Iab tcf support: coming soon · no [S10]
- Image optimizer compression: image optimization · 60 [S9]
- Installation scale: 22 · 13 [S5]
- International sales: yes · yes [S9]
- Languages: yes · 60 [S4]
- Languages breakdown: 0.4% · 45.2% · 2.6% · 0.1% · 0.1% · 24.2% · 27.4% [S4]
- Latest version: 4.5.0 [S4]
- Lazy loading: yes · lazy loading of images and videos [S7]
- Legacy and atomic mixing: yes [S5]
- Live preview: yes [S10]
- Local fonts: yes · load fonts locally [S7]
- Manual cookie management: yes [S10]
- Market share claim: 13 [S9]
- Marketing scale: 22000000 · 13 [S8]
- Marketing use of customer sites: yes · yes [S2]
- Mcp integration: Elementor MCP connects Claude, Cursor, Codex and other AI tools to Elementor sites [S6]
- Mega menus: none stated · Mega Menus [S9]
- Money back guarantee general: 30 [S7]
- Multilingual: no · yes [S10]
- No code: visual drag-and-drop · no [S9]
- No rebuild required: no [S5]
- Open source: yes · yes [S4]
- Opt in opt out templates: yes · yes [S10]
- Performance claims: pure HTML markup, fewer wrappers, improved Core Web Vitals [S5]
- Privacy first no cdn: yes · yes · yes [S10]
- Pro included in subscription: yes [S5]
- Production stability: yes [S5]
- Purchase summary: styled purchase summary [S9]
- Related performance resources: Optimize your website performance guide [S7]
- Reviews claim: 6.5K+ [S9]
- Revisit consent: yes [S10]

**Support**
- Channels: Help Center · Academy · Global Community (Facebook) · Support Forum (WordPress.org) · Support Ticket [S4]
- Channels: reasonable commercial effort · Software only per Subscription Plan [S2]
- Contribution channels: Bug Report · Pull Request · Feature Request · Translation via translate.wordpress.org [S4]
- Free forum: Free support forum on WordPress plugin page [S4]
- Help center: Elementor Help Center · Contact Us [S10]
- Help center: Help Center · Contact Us [S9]
- Pro subscription personal support: yes [S4]
- Repository not supported: no [S4]
- Updates: yes [S2]

22 more facts on the canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/elementor

## Questions

### Is Elementor European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where Elementor is based. Its vendor, Elementor Ltd., is incorporated in Israel, per [the vendor’s page captured 3 Nov 2026](https://whats-best.ai/evidence/17928).

### Where does Elementor store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

### Does Elementor have a free plan?

Yes. Elementor has a free plan, per [the vendor’s page captured 3 Nov 2026](https://whats-best.ai/evidence/17936).

### What are the best alternatives to Elementor?

As of 4 Nov 2026, the panel rates [Duda (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/duda), [Wix (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/wix) and [WordPress.com (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/wordpress-com) highest among the other 17 Website Builders products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Framer](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/framer) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Elementor alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/website-builder/elementor/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 59 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 14 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 6 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 4 hosting facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 3 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 support facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 3 sovereignty dimensions could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and are shown as unknown.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor page: https://elementor.com (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S2] Terms of service — found from the homepage: https://elementor.com/terms/ (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S3] Security / trust page — found from the homepage: https://elementor.com/hosting/ (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S4] Code repository (open-source licence) — found from the homepage: https://github.com/elementor/elementor (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S5] Editor, templates & design control — found from sitemap: https://elementor.com/products/website-builder/v4-faq/ (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S6] Editor, templates & design control — found from sitemap: https://elementor.com/ai-page-builder/ (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S7] Hosting, domains & portability — found from sitemap: https://elementor.com/speed-performance/ (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S8] Hosting, domains & portability — found from sitemap: https://elementor.com/terms/elementor-hosting-free-domain-terms/ (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S9] Forms, bookings & business features — found from sitemap: https://elementor.com/ecommerce-builder/ (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S10] Imprint, privacy & cookie compliance — found from sitemap: https://elementor.com/products/cookie-consent/ (checked 2026-11-03)
- [S11] Imprint, privacy & cookie compliance — found from sitemap: https://elementor.com/terms/elementor-data-processing-agreement/ (checked 2026-11-03)

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