The definitive Ceros alternative

Designers accustomed to using tools such as Figma can visually build marketing materials, eBooks, landing pages, and more in Vev that would traditionally require custom coding. Vev’s free-roaming canvas lets you place pre-coded design components anywhere.

You are free to build whatever you want—either as a one-off project or reusable templates—and embed it on your existing CMS.

If you have dev resources at hand, your creative ceiling becomes limitless. They can create whatever custom React components you want using Vev’s CLI, and designers can reuse these components repeatedly by tweaking visual attributes.

Suitable for templated marketing materials, brochures, sales collateral, product demos, and microcontent like infographics.

However, some design components need to be built manually from the ground up, which can be a hurdle for some users.

Clients transitioning from Ceros to Vev often report issues such as the inability to create tables, difficulties in making bullet point lists, and the lack of a basic feature like using different text styles within a single text box.

Vev has extremely flexible hosting options. You can host with us, connect and publish directly to your server, or even embed your content into your existing CMS—making Vev a native part of your site.

Unlike Ceros, which relies on iframes which can result in poor SEO performance, Vev generates clean, straightforward HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with server-side rendering.

This method ensures that your content is easily crawled and indexed by search engines, leading to better SEO performance and higher online visibility.

You can embed Ceros experiences in a template in your CMS, this could be a smaller piece inline with other content or result in a full-page takeover. Content will always be hosted by Ceros.

Technical weaknesses:

• Publishing a Ceros experience takes manual work each time you want to publish something.
• Ceros does not pre-render content on their stand-alone sites or embeds, resulting in slow loading sites and lower SEO scores.
• Ceros uses iframes, which results in bad SEO performance due to the inability of search engines to effectively crawl and index the content within the iframes.

You own your finished site and all of your content, even if you host and publish a Vev site on your own CMS.

Unlike many platforms, where you have to copy/paste all your content and designs, and rebuild from scratch, we offer this as a service; we’ll export all your sites and projects as a downloadable .zip file. This makes it safe to start using Vev without being “locked in”, in case you decide to unsubscribe from Vev.

Since Ceros host your content, they own it and you'll lose the work if you no longer subscribe to the platform.

We have met Ceros users wanting to change platforms, but since they will lose all their productions, they are forced to stay with Ceros and continue to pay more than double the price.

With Vev's CLI, your development team can create custom React components that can be reused across your teams. The highlight? Designers can visually customize the styling of your components within the design editor without changing any code. This reusability significantly enhances the scale of your content production.

Simple SDK to edit elements, meaning you can edit the CSS of a single element.

We are confident in our product and believe in an open approach. Unlike Ceros, you can test Vev as much as you want without the pressure of a fixed trial period or the need to share credit card details upfront. When you're ready, unlock more opportunities with our custom Enterprise plans.

You are not allowed to sign up and try for free. Ceros is many times more expensive than Vev's most expensive plan and targets teams with large budgets.

While Vev is a more modern and powerful platform, Ceros has been able to charge that high price based on the fact that they were alone in the market for a long time.