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Durable vs Stunning

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. Durable publishes a starting price ($22); Stunning does not. Both have a free tier.

DurableGenerates a service-business site, then sells the CRM around itStunningPrompt-to-app builder tuned for Arabic-speaking founders and MENA payments

Side by side

FactDurableStunning
CategoryWebsite BuildersVibe Coding & App Generators
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$22 month—
Public APINoNo
PlatformsWebWeb
CompanyDurableZeew OÜ
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Durable

Aimed squarely at trades and local services that have never had a website, and honest about it — the generated site is a competent one-page brochure, not a design. The reason to pay is the CRM, invoicing and booking bolted around it; judged purely as a page builder it loses to the free tiers of the general-purpose tools.

Pros

  • The free tier is a genuinely usable live site, not a time-limited preview
  • Custom domain registration is included in the paid tiers rather than billed separately
  • The 15% annual discount means month-to-month is not punitively priced, unlike most tools here
  • CRM, invoicing and scheduling in the same subscription remove two or three other bills

Cons

  • The free CRM stops at ten contacts, which any working business passes in a fortnight
  • Generated sites share a recognisable structure, so differentiation has to come from the copy
  • No API and no export path, so the site and the customer records live where they were made
  • Grow caps image generation at 500 a month despite being the top self-serve tier

Stunning

Worth a look only if you are shipping to Gulf or North African customers and need Tap, Fawry or Tabby working on day one. On raw build quality and ecosystem, Lovable and v0 are further along, and Stunning's own marketing does it no favours.

Pros

  • Local payment and BNPL gateways are first-class, which no Western prompt-to-app tool bothers with
  • Full right-to-left and Arabic UI rather than a machine translation layer
  • Free tier lets you publish something before paying

Cons

  • Site is built on an off-the-shelf admin template; a theme-switcher panel and template scaffolding leak into production pages
  • Homepage runs a ByteDance/Google/Microsoft logo wall with nothing behind it, which undercuts trust
  • Pricing never renders on the pricing page (it sits at "Loading billing information..."), so cost is unknown before signup
  • No API and no visible export path off the platform

Which one fits

Choose Durable if you need

  • Service businesses going from no website to a live one in an afternoon
  • Sole traders who want contacts, invoices and a booking link in the same subscription
  • Anyone who would otherwise pay an agency four figures for a five-section brochure site

Choose Stunning if you need

  • Arabic-language landing pages and storefronts built by a non-developer
  • MENA merchants who need local card processing and BNPL wired in without integration work
  • Freelancers reselling quick client sites in the region

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