Visual builders all give you the ability to drag & drop your way to a WordPress website - but the nuances of how they do this are important. In this comparison chart, we'll focus specifically on the advantages of using Oxygen over our competitors.
License & UPDATES
Oxygen
Elementor
Beaver
Divi
Lifetime Support
Lifetime Updates
# of Sites Per License
Unlimited
1000
Unlimited
Unlimited
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
“Oxygen has changed my career. This builder has made my workflow so much faster and easier. It has also put us leaps and bounds ahead of the competition. I'm so happy with it and won’t use anything else. Do yourself a favor and buy the lifetime license.”
Mark Evans
WordPress Professional
DESIGN
Oxygen
Elementor
Beaver
Divi
Scroll & Entrance Animations
CSS Transforms
JS Parallax
Filters
Blend Modes
Background Gradients
Max Colors In A Gradient
unlimited
2
2
2
“Believe me when I tell you that there's absolutely no other tool more powerful than Oxygen. You can't compare it to Divi, Elementor, or even Wix or Weebly; this is some next-level designing and building for WordPress.”
“Oxygen is simply the best tool hands down to develop WordPress websites with pixel perfect responsiveness. The ability to control every aspect of how a site displays on any device is unmatched in the marketplace at this time.”
Thayne Rigby
Head of Web @ V-Squared Creative
Headers & Footers
Oxygen
Elementor
Beaver
Divi
Build Headers & Footers
Dedicated Header Builder Element
Sticky Header
Overlay Effect
“When creating headers with other visual builders, I still had to use dozens of CSS lines to get it right. With Oxygen's native header overlay and sticky header support, I can implement any header I want, without having to write any custom code”
Joe David
WordPress Professional
Layout Features
Oxygen
Elementor
Beaver
Divi
Flexbox Controls
Horizontal Layouts Without Columns
“I've built more than 50 sites - many of them powered by Genesis and sometimes with Brizy or Elementor. I started using Oxygen when it was first released, and now I have 10 sites built with Oxygen. When I go back to my other sites and have to use a page builder I see all limitations, especially when you have to use columns and even nested columns while in Oxygen is just a matter of flexbox alignment.”
Roberto Ciccolella
Founder at CiaoWeb
PERFORMANCE & SEO
Oxygen
Elementor
Beaver
Divi
basic page performance
Google PageSpeed
95
59
94
67
Pingdom
94
86
92
91
Asset Size (no gzip)
295.5kb
1.5mb
444kb
1.7mb
HTTP Requests
12
39
16
20
Performance features
Google Font Face Limiter
Default WP Bloat Eliminator
DIVCEPTION
Div Tags Generated for 1 Heading Element
0
7
9
11
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION
Selectable HTML5 Tags
Passes Google Lighthouse Divception Test
All tests performed on Cloudways hosting with no server-side caching enabled, no extra plugins, the default Twenty Twenty-One theme, and equivalent designs.
“Oxygen is no doubt the fastest. I have tested this for hours and hours. I have used Divi, Elementor, Jupiter, Brizy, OceanWP, Astra, PageBuilderPro, and more. Truth is, Oxygen wins, hands down, the facts speak for themselves.”
Tim Veach
WordPress Professional
WooCommerce
Oxygen
Elementor
Beaver
Divi
Global WooCommerce Styles
Styling Controls for Woo Elements
Style WooCommerce Widgets
Freedom from Theme Styles
Custom Single Product Layouts
Custom Archive Layouts
Custom Cart, Checkout, and My Account
“With the never before seen capability to visually design WooCommerce layouts with ease, what once cost skilled developers hundreds of man hours can now be done in an afternoon.”
Luke Jon Gibson
Web Designer @ GibsonFX
client accessibility
Oxygen
Elementor
Beaver
Divi
Edit-Only Builder Mode
Fully Granular Client Access Control
Use Builder-Designed Blocks in Gutenberg (no editing)
Visually Build Editable Gutenberg Blocks
Clients Can Edit Builder-Designed Page Content In Gutenberg
“The Gutenberg integration in Oxygen v3 will make everyone fall in love with Gutenberg - especially that ones who have been hating Gutenberg.”
Vinod KP
Front End Developer @ Tiny E-Web Swirl
WORKFLOW & UI
Oxygen
Elementor
Beaver
Divi
Global Colors
Multi-Element Styling w/ CSS Classes
User Design Library
Draggable Column Width
Draggable Margin & Padding
“I just discovered Oxygen a couple weeks ago and I have a big problem. Oxygen keeps blowing my mind more and more every day. I'm spending way too much time being distracted by Oxygen and I no longer want to work on my sites with Beaver Builder. Please, can someone help?”
Philip DiPatrizio
WordPress Professional
DYNAMIC DATA
Oxygen
Elementor
Beaver
Divi
Embed Dynamic Data in Templates
Conditions
Repeaters
Advanced Custom Fields Integration
Toolset Integration
“Oxygen has changed how I build websites after using a very popular builder for years. I have the ability to design everything and use ACF Pro to create custom UIs for clients to edit content.”
Amanda Lucas
WordPress Professional
Advanced
Oxygen
Elementor
Beaver
Divi
CSS
JavaScript
PHP
CSS States & Psuedo-Classes
Visually Style Custom CSS Selectors
Build with Fundamental HTML Elements
“Oxygen is by far the easiest builder I've used - and by easiest I mean that from a developer standpoint. In other builders I'm limited by the blocks it offers, but with Oxygen I can slap a custom script in and make it do exactly what I need.”