Elementor v/s Thrive Architect: The Better Website Builder? A Review!
Published On : May 13, 2025 Category(s) : Technology
A successfully built WordPress page or a website at large means a successful business and conversion opportunity, This has been the modern online business marketing mantra as stated by the web developers.
Now a small business or an idea owner like you who is not aware about the web development basics and advancements needs a buddy who does all the WordPress Page building hardship for you. Two such popular Website or webpage building softwares in the market are Elementor and Thrive Architect by Thrive Themes respectively.
Today we’ll discuss the features, advantages, benefits and disadvantages and differentiators of both and will help you choose the best WordPress web creator for you. Let us begin
These are going to be the Factors upon which we will compare the two:-
- User-Friendly Editor
- Better WordPress Integration
- Theme Building
- Value for money
- Customer Support
User-Friendly Editor:
Elementor
Elementor has been stated as the most user friendly option by its users because of the live front end page editor it provides in the web building software with specific website personalisation features, you can easily access tons of embedded templates and block library making Elementor an option with the easiest interface avoiding complexity, confusion and unwanted hard work from the user’s side.
Thrive Architect
Thrive Architect, a trusted product by Thrive Themes is also a good option for your wordpress web page building with over 100 template options but when compared to Elementor, Architect has a very Complex Interface which may confuse and irritate you at a point as it does not have any front end live editor, no 3rd party plugins and also the personalisation features are not as good as Elementor.
Better WordPress Integration
Elementor
The very direct integration of WordPress in the Elementor Software itself allows you to access many WordPress Features while editing at Elementor itself which saves you time like never before. For example, if you want to change the image featured in a post or an article you can directly do that in the Elementor Interface instead of opening WordPress in a new tab.
Thrive Architect
Architect by Thrive Themes does not support such direct integration of WordPress features into its software where you can find it difficult and frustrating to change tabs from the Thrive Architect building and editing interface to WordPress Editing Interface which has to be run in another tab.
Theme Building
Elementor
Here is where Elementor has a major upper hand over Thrive Architect. Where you get a built-in theme building and editing feature in the Elementor software that lets you control your site theme directly from the Elementor Interface. It works flawlessly and is the most loved feature by the Elementor Users.
Thrive Architect
Architect by Thrive Themes alone does not have theme editing and building capability and has to depend upon other products by Thrive Themes to which you will need access and hence pay extra amount, which is not the case if you are an elementor user. The theme building software of Thrive Themes is also not as flawless as the Elementor’s single interface capability to control, monitor and edit your website’s theme from one place with no complexity and extra charges.
Value For Money :
Elementor
The $20/month subscription of Elementor software includes Hosting as well as all the lovely features required or your WordPress Page Building at a single place, for example, complete WordPress Integration, Built-in theme controlling option, live front end editing option and a 24/7 customer support option with no third party payments required. Elementor is the real value for your money and the most affordable key to your successful Website.
Thrive Architect :
Firstly you don’t have a monthly payment option at Thrive Architect, you can either pay quarterly or yearly with a $149/quarter or a $299/year payment option which makes it an expensive option for small scale business owners or beginners in the online marketing field. Also you don’t get some important web building features covered in this subscription such as theme building and others which are all covered and completely accessible in the Elementro $20 monthly subscription model.
Note: Various Cloud Hosting is a bonus you are getting with the Elementor pocket friendly payment model.
Customer Support:
Elementor
Elementor the website building software has an amazing 24/7 customer support which makes Elementor a brand that always keeps you first and is always willing to solve even the smallest issues you can face while building your dream website.
Thrive Architect
Customer Support is the weakest spot of Architect by Thrive Themes, where the customers are not happy with the support provided by the software brand as the willingness of the company to solve the customer’s issues is not proved as promised in many cases as per customer reviews available across the web.
Differentiators that give Elementor an Upper Hand
Now let us take a look at the excellent differentiators of Elementor that give it an upper hand over the Architect by Thrive Themes
A User friendly Live Front End Editing Page
The more powerful pop up builder than Thrive Architect, which lets users access and build their website hasslefree
Everything within a single interface, be it Direct WordPress Integration or Theme Building Feature which is not included in the Thrive Architect expensive subscription model.
An excellent 24/7 customer support accompanied by a larger and happier customer base which proves the customer-first motto of the Elementor Software.
Conclusion
We have now reached the end of this article, where I gave you a detailed comparison of Elementor and Thrive Architect, the website building software. Based upon the information provided in the article and my personal experience while creating websites on the two softwares, I would highly recommend Elementor over Thrive Architect to start your Website Building Journey of you are a beginner in the field and don’t want to face hassles such as managing your website themes on two different interfaces, self integrating WordPress features which takes time and other such issues which might be the case while using Thrive Architect by Thrive Themes.
Extended Customer Support, A larger happy customer base, 18M+ Successfully Built Websites and A lower investment as compared to others are some other factors which make Elementor the best option for your online sales generation journey by creating a successful website or a webpage for your business..
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