Compared on 4 November 2026
Essential Grid vs Elementor Loop Grid
If your site runs on Elementor Pro, Loop Grid is already in your plan. Here is what Essential Grid adds, and when Loop Grid is enough. Essential Grid works inside Elementor too, as a widget.
Choose Essential Grid if
- Visitors need more than a Taxonomy Filter widget: buttons or menus with counts, AND/OR logic, search, sorting and links to a filtered grid.
- You want every card designed layer by layer in the skin editor, or Cobbles tiles.
- You want grid-specific effects: hover, entrance and filter animations.
- You show feeds, media library galleries, NextGEN or Real Media Library.
- The same grids must work outside Elementor: in Gutenberg, Divi, WPBakery or with a shortcode.
Loop Grid is enough if
- Your site is all Elementor and the list should look like the rest of the page.
- A Taxonomy Filter widget is all the list needs.
- You would rather not add another plugin.
Side by side, row by row.
From each product’s own pricing and feature pages. Essential Grid as it is today, plus what 4.0 adds where marked.
| Essential Grid | Elementor Loop Grid | |
|---|---|---|
| Price a year | €45 for 1 site, €99 for 3, €209 for up to 250 sites. Every feature in every plan. | Part of Elementor Pro: Loop Grid, Loop Carousel and the Taxonomy Filter are in every Pro plan, Essential included; custom fields and post types start with the Advanced Solo plan. |
| Data sources | Posts, pages, custom post types, WooCommerce, media library grids; Instagram, Facebook, Flickr, Behance, YouTube and Vimeo; NextGEN and Real Media Library. | Posts in every Pro plan; custom post types, custom fields (ACF, Toolset, Pods) and WooCommerce products from the Advanced Solo plan. |
| Filtering | Buttons or menus by category, taxonomy or custom field, with counts and AND/OR logic; search, sort and deep links. | A Taxonomy Filter widget. |
| Page builders | Gutenberg block, Elementor widget, Divi 4 and 5 module, WPBakery element, shortcode. | Elementor only. |
| Card design and motion | A layered skin editor with 30+ skins, Cobbles tiles, hover video, a lightbox and animations; 100+ grid templates. In new 4.0 grids, effects for the keyboard and touch, and a new lightbox. | Any Elementor design for the loop item; no dedicated grid skins. |
Elementor’s plans and features as listed on its own site on 4 November 2026. Essential Grid’s prices are yearly, plus VAT, calculated at checkout, and shown in your currency there. Prices change, so check before you buy. Spotted something out of date? Tell us. WP Grid Builder and Elementor are trademarks of their owners; no affiliation.
Not sure yet? Try the examples.
Open any of the 106 examples and see how your content would look.