Compared on 4 November 2026
Essential Grid vs WP Grid Builder
Both turn your content into grids. WP Grid Builder is built around faceted filtering; Essential Grid is built around card design and motion. Here is how they differ, as plainly as we can put it.
Choose Essential Grid if
- You want every card designed layer by layer, with hover effects and motion.
- You show social and video feeds next to posts and products.
- Your sites are built with Divi or WPBakery.
- You use Slider Revolution and want its modules in a grid’s lightbox or loaded content.
Choose WP Grid Builder if
- You need faceted search with its own index over a large catalogue, or date or map facets.
- You build with Bricks, Oxygen or Beaver Builder.
- You list users, terms or Easy Digital Downloads products.
- You filter by ACF, Meta Box or Pods fields.
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 | WP Grid Builder | |
|---|---|---|
| Price a year | €45 for 1 site, €99 for 3, €209 for up to 250 sites. Every feature in every plan. | $49 for 1 site, $99 for up to 3, $249 for unlimited sites, billed in US dollars. All add-ons included. |
| Data sources | Posts, pages, custom post types, WooCommerce, media library grids; Instagram, Facebook, Flickr, Behance, YouTube and Vimeo; NextGEN and Real Media Library. | Posts, terms, users, WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads; ACF, Meta Box and Pods. |
| Filtering | Buttons or menus by category, taxonomy or custom field, with counts and AND/OR logic; search, sort, load more or pages, deep links. New in 4.0, the premium add-ons ESG Facets and ESG Commerce: a filter bar with counts, plus colour swatches, a price range, stock, sale and rating filters for WooCommerce products, which updates a 4.0 grid in place. No facet index, no date facets. | 20 facet types with their own index and AJAX: checkbox, radio, select, hierarchy, range, rating, date, search, sort, load more; a map facet as an add-on. |
| Page builders | Gutenberg block, Elementor widget, Divi 4 and 5 module, WPBakery element, shortcode. No Bricks, Beaver Builder or Oxygen element. | Gutenberg blocks, Elementor, Bricks, Oxygen and Beaver Builder. |
| Layouts | Even, Masonry and Cobbles; new 4.0 grids without layout shift. | Masonry, justified, metro and carousel. |
| Card design | A layered skin editor with 30+ skins, hover video, a lightbox and animations; 100+ grid templates. In new 4.0 grids, effects for the keyboard and touch, and a new lightbox. | A card builder with 20+ cards. |
WP Grid Builder’s prices 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.