Duda review
We read the pricing page and the product pages, and bought no plan.
- BySalwa Al-Otaibi · edited by Nora Al-Mutairi
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- Score5.2 / 10
We read the pricing page and the product pages on Duda’s own site, on .
Duda is an agency tool before it is a platform for one site owner, and that shows in every decision on its page. The capabilities are close to complete: multilingual building, custom code, analytics, search tools, AI and an app store.
The door is narrow: Duda offers no permanent free tier, only a 14-day trial after which the site stops or gets paid for The price sits at the upper end of this page, and support runs on one channel with no published hours. Of Arabic there is nothing here.
How this review was built
We bought no plan. Speed and uptime are out of the score for that reason. The score rests on four criteria readable on the company’s own pages: price and billing, Arabic and right-to-left support, published features, and support availability.
We read past the price card: the product pages and the published language list. The second is where the chapter where its heaviest loss falls came from.
There is no buyer-reports chapter here. We opened no reports this round.
Buying and price
7.2
Basis: the company’s own pages · weight 25%
The advertised price is {entry} a month billed yearly, at the upper end of this comparison. For someone building one site for themselves that is a large figure; for an agency building twenty, it is an entirely different sum.
The gap between the two ways of paying is what lowers the score: Duda prints two prices on the same card: one on annual billing and one month-to-month that is about a third higher Anyone unwilling to commit to a year pays for that hesitation every month.
Then the door: Duda offers no permanent free tier, only a 14-day trial after which the site stops or gets paid for No plan includes a free domain either, so the domain is a second cost outside this figure.
In its favour: it takes no commission on sales, and a {refund} refund guarantee is published plainly.
| Value | Points |
|---|---|
| $19.00/mo billed yearly | 8.60 |
| Paying monthly costs a good deal more | 3.68 |
| No commission on sales | 10.00 |
| A trial only, no free tier | 5.00 |
Arabic and right-to-left
0.0
Basis: the company’s own pages · weight 20%
We found no Arabic editor interface at Duda, no published sentence about right-to-left support, no Arabic templates and no Arabic support
There is a confusion here that many lists fall into. Duda publishes multilingual site building, a real feature, and it belongs to the site’s visitor rather than to the person building it. Your visitor reading your page in Arabic is one thing; you building in Arabic is another.
This criterion measures the second, because the reader we write for is the one who opens the editor and designs. We found it empty on all four counts, so the score is zero.
That does not mean an Arabic site cannot be built here. It means whoever builds it works in English tools, gets answered in English, and starts from a template that was not designed for the direction of their language.
| Value | Points |
|---|---|
| No Arabic interface published | 0.00 |
| Publishes no right-to-left support | 0.00 |
| No Arabic templates published | 0.00 |
| No Arabic support published | 0.00 |
Published features
8.0
Basis: the company’s own pages · weight 35%
This is its strong suit. What you get: {feats} of the items we count, but the published capability list is close to complete: AI, search tools, analytics, an app store, multilingual building and custom code.
One thing is missing from it: no built-in store on this plan. Anyone who wants to sell looks to another platform or bolts on an outside tool.
What it lacks in the count we run is not capability but disclosure: no free tier, no domain for the first year, and no published renewal price.
| Value | Points |
|---|---|
| What you get: 6 of the 7 capabilities we could read | 8.00 |
Support availability
3.0
Basis: the company’s own pages · weight 20%
One published channel, a ticket queue, and no working hours on the page. Anyone whose site breaks cannot tell when an answer arrives, and finds neither chat nor a phone line.
Against that, a {refund} refund guarantee is published, one of the longer windows in this round, and it earns full marks.
What lowers the trust score is the missing renewal price: the page writes two figures for today and none for the second year.
| Value | Points |
|---|---|
| no published support hours | 0.00 |
| Contact by tickets only | 3.33 |
| A refund window of 30 days | 10.00 |
| No renewal price on the page | 0.00 |
Speed and uptime: we did not measure them
We did not measure the speed or uptime of a site built here, and bought no plan.
We did not open the separate transaction-fee page, the agency plans and their prices, or any buyer reports. What we did not check is written here.
The full calculation
| Sub-score | Value | Weight | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | 7.2 | 25% | 1.800 |
| Arabic | 0.0 | 20% | 0.000 |
| Features | 8.0 | 35% | 2.800 |
| Support | 3.0 | 20% | 0.600 |
| Total | 5.200 → 5.2 |
If not this one, then what
Both picks are computed from the scores rather than written by hand: the first is the one directly above it in the ranking, the second the one that beats it by the widest margin on the criterion it loses on.
Squarespace
5.2The service directly above it in the ranking.
$12.00/mo billed yearly, or $19.00/mo month to month, and no renewal price published
Read the reviewSalla
7.2What this page offers instead on the criterion it loses on — Arabic and right-to-left.
82.50 SAR/mo billed yearly, or 99.00 SAR/mo month to month, and no renewal price published
Read the review
Bottom line
Anyone building sites for other people, who wants one tool combining control, capability and management of several sites, will find Duda built for them, and its price measured on that basis rather than on one site.
Anyone building a single site for themselves, or building in Arabic, or wanting to try before paying without a clock running, is not who this page is for.
Questions
Does Duda have a free tier?
No. A time-limited trial, after which you pay or the site stops. Nine of the fifteen platforms here give a permanent free tier.
What do I pay if I bill monthly?
About a third more than the advertised annual rate, and both figures are printed on the same card.
Can I build in Arabic on Duda?
We found no Arabic interface, no Arabic templates and no Arabic support. Multilingual building is a feature for your visitor, not for the person building.
What we know, and where from
Every figure on this page, where it came from and when we read it.
| What we say | How we know | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duda offers no permanent free tier, only a 14-day trial after which the site stops or gets paid for | the company states it | Duda — pricing | |
| Duda prints two prices on the same card: one on annual billing and one month-to-month that is about a third higher | the company states it | Duda — pricing | |
| We found no Arabic editor interface at Duda, no published sentence about right-to-left support, no Arabic templates and no Arabic support | we could not find it | Duda — pricing and product pages |