In short: choose WordPress if the site is mostly content you need to update often yourself — pages, blog, services — and you want to spend less and launch fast. Choose React (with Next.js) when you need an interactive experience, a custom interface, a web application or top-tier performance. They aren't direct competitors: they solve different problems, and often the best answer is to use them together.
| Criterion | WordPress | React / Next.js |
|---|---|---|
| Upfront cost | from €800 | from €2,000 |
| Content updates | Self-service, visual editor | Needs a connected CMS |
| Interactivity | Standard | High, app-like |
| Performance | Good with optimization | Excellent |
| Best for | Content sites, blogs, brochure sites | Web apps, dashboards, custom UI |
| SEO | Mature plugins | Great with server-side rendering |
WordPress is a CMS: it exists to manage content. If your site is made of pages, articles and listings that you or your team need to update independently, WordPress is unbeatable on value for money. A visual editor, ready-made themes, thousands of plugins and mature SEO tools get you live in days. For brochure sites, company blogs and editorial portals it is almost always the right choice.
React is a library for building interfaces: with frameworks like Next.js it becomes the base of modern, fast, highly interactive websites and web apps. It's the right choice when the interface is the heart of the product — configurators, dashboards, member areas, animated experiences — or when you need performance and full control over the frontend. The trade-off: it costs more and, to let you edit content yourself, it needs a connected CMS (often WordPress in headless mode).
Start from the right question: is your site mostly content or mostly interaction? If it's content, our web development service on optimized WordPress starts at €800. If it's interaction, we build a custom React/Next.js frontend. Either way we handle technical SEO, because even the fastest site is useless if Google can't find it.