Head to head
Durable vs Hocoos
669 people were asked which of these two they would start a project with today. Here is the split, and the axis by axis reason behind it.
Board updated: 19 Aug 2026 · Duel published: 11 Aug 2026
Durable, captured 09 Aug 2026.
Hocoos, captured 03 Aug 2026.
Durable
59.5%
398 votes
Hocoos
40.5%
271 votes
669 votes cast. Durable takes the duel by 127 votes.
Side by side
The board record for both tools
| Measure | Durable | Hocoos |
|---|---|---|
| Tier band | B | C |
| Community score | 655 / 1000 | 598 / 1000 |
| Votes counted | 1,087 | 327 |
| Board rank | #32 | #38 |
| Trend this week | No change | No change |
| Head to head record | 2W 6L | 0W 3L |
| Entry price | 12 EUR / mo | 8 EUR / mo |
| Last verified | 09 Aug 2026 | 03 Aug 2026 |
Where Durable wins
- Fastest path from nothing to a published small business site
- Copy and logo generated alongside the pages
- Built in CRM and invoicing, genuinely useful for a service business
And where it does not
- Design output is templated, not distinctive
- No path to a custom application beyond a small business site
- Limited customisation compared to a real visual editor
Where Hocoos wins
- Logo and brand kit generated alongside the site
- Cheap entry price for a straightforward business site
- Quick questionnaire based setup
And where it does not
- Design output is generic without manual polish
- No path from here to a custom application
- Smaller ecosystem than the established small business builders
Analysis
Why the split landed where it did
The small business site duel
Both generate a full small business site, copy and a logo from one short prompt, and both are honest about not attempting a custom application. The 59.5 to 40.5 split is the widest margin among this batch of duels.
Durable takes it on what happens after publish: a built in CRM and invoicing layer means some owners genuinely never need a second tool. Hocoos matches it on speed and on the brand kit it generates alongside the site, but has nothing comparable once the business actually needs to track a customer or send an invoice.
Where Hocoos still wins a vote
Testers who wanted the site and nothing else, no CRM to learn, rated Hocoos's simplicity as the better fit. That is a minority of the votes, but it is not zero.
Reweight this comparison yourself
Our weights put 22 points on design and 21 on speed. If your project lives or dies on reliability, integrations or code ownership, those three carry only 21 points here and this duel is not answering your question. The axis notes on both tool pages and the public board data let you redo the arithmetic with your own numbers.
Questions
About this matchup
Durable or Hocoos, which should I choose?
The community picks Durable by 59 percent to 41 percent in this duel. That is a preference, not a verdict: Hocoos wins specific axes outright, so read the comparison table before taking the split at face value.
Why does the duel result differ from the board order?
The board score is a weighted aggregate across ten axes. A duel asks one unweighted question: which would you start with. A tool can win the aggregate and lose the choice, and the gap between those two results is usually the most interesting thing on the page.
Are these vote counts real?
Yes, they are the raw counts from the duel, including editor panel votes cast during our own testing round. Nothing is normalised and nothing is rounded for presentation.