What WordPress is good at
WordPress is the most flexible and most portable option in this comparison. Nothing else has its plugin ecosystem, and with an active maintainer a WordPress site can be excellent for a decade.
SOSEI vs WordPress
Your site is probably WordPress.
That is usually why it looks its age.
WordPress runs a large share of the web, including most of the sites customers ask us to rebuild. It is not a bad system — it is a system that needs an owner, and most small sites quietly lose theirs.
Run a free audit of your current siteWhere SOSEI is different
WordPress assumes someone is maintaining it. SOSEI assumes nobody is, and makes hosting, security and platform upkeep our side of the subscription — with the rebuild itself one click on yours.
Side by side
Structural differences only — no prices and no scores, because both change faster than this page does. Two rows go to WordPress.
| Capability | SOSEI | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| Starts from the website you already haveYou give a domain, not a blank canvas or a prompt. | Yes | Yes |
| Existing copy, images and brand carried overYour pages are crawled and rebuilt, not retyped into a template. | Yes | Yes |
| One-click rebuild of the whole site against current standardsYou trigger it — the pipeline regenerates against today's standards, not the ones in place when the site was first built. | Yes | No |
| Report of what AI assistants actually answer about youBuyer questions run against several assistants and scored. | Yes | No |
| llms.txt and an AI-crawler allowlist shipped with the site | Yes | No |
| Cookie consent banner in every published siteBuilt in and not removable — tracking scripts stay gated behind it. | Yes | Possible, but you configure it |
| Privacy, terms, cookie and accessibility pages generated | Yes | Possible, but you configure it |
| WCAG 2.1 AA contrast enforced by the rendererColour choices that fail the ratio are corrected before publish. | Yes | Possible, but you configure it |
| Fonts self-hosted, no third-party font CDN | Yes | Possible, but you configure it |
| Drag-and-drop visual editorSOSEI edits by chat and direct in-page tweaks instead. | No | Possible, but you configure it |
| Template gallery to browse and pick fromEach SOSEI site is generated for one brand, so there is nothing to browse. | No | Yes |
A dash means the capability is available but set up per site by the owner, rather than being part of every published page.
Choose WordPress when
- You have a developer or agency actively maintaining the site.
- You depend on specific plugins or custom post types.
- Owning and hosting the code yourself is a requirement.
Choose SOSEI when
- The last theme or plugin update was years ago and nobody is sure what would break.
- The content is still good but the design, speed and structure are not.
- You would rather rebuild in one click than pay someone to fix the site after it breaks.
See where your current site stands.
Before choosing between SOSEI and WordPress, it helps to know what is actually wrong with the site you have. The 40-point audit scores it across SEO, AI discoverability, accessibility, privacy, mobile, performance and design.
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