WordPress alternative for agencies
WordPress can do almost anything, as long as someone looks after it. Cleverpage is built for websites your client maintains themselves for years, without anyone installing updates. They are built by your own AI agent. Here you can see where the differences lie and which system fits when.
Point by point
Both systems get a website online. The difference shows in the years after.
| Topic | WordPress | Cleverpage |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation | Open-source CMS with PHP and a database, on hosting of your choice. | Platform for client websites, delivered as finished HTML. Server, domain and certificate are part of it. |
| Building | With a theme or page builder, plus plugins for forms, SEO or caching. | Your AI agent, such as Claude Code, Cursor or Codex, connects to Cleverpage and builds the design system, components and pages there from your draft. Cleverpage checks every step. |
| Client editing | In the admin or block editor, often with access to layout and styling. | In the Cleverpage editor: after signing in, the client sees every page as it looks on the website and edits texts and images in it, only in the fields you open up. The design stays untouched. |
| Updates | Update WordPress, the theme and plugins regularly, then check everything. | None. No CMS on the server, no plugins. |
| Security | Website and CMS are the same system: every visitor reaches the server with PHP, database and login. One flaw in one plugin is enough of a way in. | Website and management are separate. Visitors only get finished HTML via Cloudflare, with no database, login or plugins. Editing happens in Cleverpage, not on the website. |
| Approval | Drafts and preview, approval workflows usually via plugin. | Save, approve to a protected preview, publish. Every version is kept. |
| Costs | The software is free. Hosting, premium plugins and maintenance come on top. | €6.90 per website and month, €3.45 for a mini website. Hosting included, you only pay once it is live. |
| Data and export | Stored wherever you host. | Servers in Germany. Export as HTML and as source code, any time. |
To be fair
Cleverpage is built for business websites that should last. For some things, WordPress is stronger.
Switching
You move an existing website with your AI agent, just as you build a new one: you give it the address and tell it what you want.
Anything else? Write to us at hello@cleverpage.ai.
Yes, for business websites that agencies build and clients then maintain themselves. Instead of a theme, plugins and updates, your AI agent builds the website in Cleverpage, and it is delivered as finished HTML with no CMS on the server. For online shops or sites with many special features, WordPress often remains the better choice.
No. Cleverpage is a platform of its own. It needs neither WordPress nor hosting of your own.
No. Websites are built by your own AI agent, such as Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. It connects to your Cleverpage account and works there like a developer, and Cleverpage checks every change against the design system. You only use AI inside Cleverpage if you want to, for example for images, videos or translations.
Yes. You give your AI agent the old website's address and tell it to rebuild it in Cleverpage. It reads the texts and images and rebuilds the pages in Cleverpage, with the current design or a new one. Old addresses redirect to the new ones.
Yes, and more simply than in the WordPress admin: they sign in to Cleverpage, see their pages in the editor just as on the website, click into a text and type. They cannot change fonts, colours or layout while doing so.
No. Hosting, certificate, staging and forms are included. You just connect the client's own domain.
Building, reviewing and approving costs nothing. You only pay once the website is live on its domain: €6.90 a month, €3.45 for a one-pager.
Building, testing and approving cost nothing. You pay per website, only once it goes live.
