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Compare Progress Telerik and Syncfusion Essential Studio® 
At a Glance
Market Segments
Small-Business (54.9% of reviews)
Small-Business (81.1% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Starting at $849.00 Per Year
Free
Progress Telerik
Star Rating
(199)4.5 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (54.9% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Starting at $849.00 Per Year
Free Trial is available
Browse all 4 pricing plansSyncfusion Essential Studio®
Star Rating
(653)4.5 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (81.1% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Free
Free Trial is available
Browse all 4 pricing plansProgress Telerik vs Syncfusion Essential Studio®
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found them equally easy to use. However, Syncfusion Essential Studio® is easier to set up , while reviewers preferred administration and ease of doing business with Progress Telerik overall.
- Progress Telerik and Syncfusion Essential Studio® both meet the requirements of our reviewers at a comparable rate.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, Progress Telerik and Syncfusion Essential Studio® provide similar levels of assistance.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Progress Telerik over Syncfusion Essential Studio®.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Progress Telerik
Individual .NET Libraries
Starting at $849.00
Per Year
Telerik UI for Blazor, Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC, Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core, Telerik UI for .NET MAUI, Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC, Telerik UI for ASP.NET Core, Telerik UI for WPF, Telerik UI for WinForms.
- Truly native UI components to cover any app scenario
- Telerik UI Kits for Figma
- Document processing libraries
Syncfusion Essential Studio®
Syncfusion Essential Studio Community License - Complimentary for qualifying developers and organizations!
Free
A complimentary Essential Studio® license available to organizations and individuals with less than $1 million USD in annual gross revenue, 5 or fewer developers, and 10 or fewer total employees.
Note: An entity or organization may not have ever received more than $3,000,000 USD in capital from an outside source, such as private equity or venture capital, in order to be eligible for the Community License.
Value of $12,475 USD. No credit card required.
- Unlimited access to 1,600+ components and libraries, as well as all other products included with Essential Studio® .
- Wide range of product demos and training, including video tutorials, documentation, and KB articles.
- Does not expire. Licenses will continue to receive support and updates for new versions.
Free Trial
Progress Telerik
Free Trial is available
Syncfusion Essential Studio®
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
8.8
153
8.8
543
Ease of Use
8.4
159
8.4
550
Ease of Setup
8.7
127
8.8
321
Ease of Admin
8.9
54
8.7
217
Quality of Support
9.1
151
9.1
523
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
9.1
56
8.9
215
Product Direction (% positive)
9.1
154
8.4
532
Features by Category
Functionality
Not enough data
8.6
209
Not enough data
8.4
180
Not enough data
8.3
162
Not enough data
8.2
193
Not enough data
8.7
202
Not enough data
8.2
206
Not enough data
8.7
198
JavaScript Frameworks
Not enough data
8.9
96
Not enough data
8.1
98
Not enough data
8.9
90
Not enough data
9.2
101
Not enough data
9.0
97
Not enough data
8.2
82
Functionality
8.8
74
8.6
175
9.2
81
9.0
213
8.5
73
8.7
192
Management
8.6
77
8.8
201
8.1
72
Feature Not Available
8.9
79
8.9
211
Functionality
Not enough data
9.1
83
Not enough data
8.9
91
Not enough data
8.9
86
Performance
Not enough data
8.9
88
Not enough data
8.9
92
Not enough data
8.1
91
Support
Not enough data
8.3
92
Not enough data
8.2
93
Not enough data
8.2
84
Data Sources
8.8
12
8.3
52
8.6
11
8.3
51
9.0
12
8.5
60
Generation
8.1
12
7.8
46
8.6
12
7.8
43
8.9
12
8.0
45
Delivery
8.3
12
7.5
42
8.3
11
7.6
44
8.5
11
7.2
39
Generative AI
6.2
11
6.2
25
6.4
11
6.0
24
6.2
11
6.0
21
6.2
11
5.9
22
Agentic AI - Document Generation
4.0
7
3.3
6
Functionality
8.5
88
Not enough data
8.5
82
Not enough data
8.1
85
Not enough data
8.3
87
Not enough data
9.0
88
Not enough data
8.4
88
Not enough data
8.4
86
Not enough data
Charts
Not enough data
9.0
56
Not enough data
8.9
56
Not enough data
8.9
53
Not enough data
8.7
55
Documentation
Not enough data
8.1
56
Mobile
Not enough data
8.4
49
Web Frameworks
Not enough data
9.0
52
Application Design
8.9
22
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.8
21
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.8
20
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.7
22
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.8
20
|
Verified
Not enough data
Data Control
8.4
20
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.6
20
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.1
19
|
Verified
Not enough data
Publishing
8.3
20
|
Verified
Not enough data
8.8
21
Not enough data
8.6
21
|
Verified
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Low-Code Development Platforms
6.3
5
Not enough data
8.3
5
Not enough data
6.3
5
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Progress Telerik and Syncfusion Essential Studio® are categorized as Component Libraries and Document Generation
Unique Categories
Progress Telerik is categorized as Application Development Platforms and Low-Code Development Platforms
Syncfusion Essential Studio® is categorized as Data Visualization Libraries, JavaScript Web Frameworks, .NET Integrated Development Environments (IDE), and Mobile Development Frameworks
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Progress Telerik
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Syncfusion Essential Studio®
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Computer Software
21.6%
Information Technology and Services
9.7%
Oil & Energy
3.8%
Financial Services
3.8%
Hospital & Health Care
3.2%
Other
57.8%
Computer Software
29.7%
Information Technology and Services
12.6%
Financial Services
3.9%
Accounting
2.4%
Program Development
2.2%
Other
49.2%
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Discussions
What is Telerik UI?
2 Comments
RS
Telerik UI helps in building application faster with less code, UI components are readily available to use for example Telerik Grid which comes with paging,...Read more
What is Telerik UI for asp net?
1 Comment
JL
My experience with Telerik has been with Winforms, Windows UI and MVC. For asp.net, I imagine that, like the foregoing platforms, Telerik provides UI...Read more
What is Progress Telerik used for?
1 Comment
JL
Telerik is used for enhancing the appearance and functionality of applications through enhanced efficiency of software development using proprietary...Read more
this free community version of syncfusion will stay free ?
2 Comments
SS
Hi Muhammad,
I'm not sure if my reply to your other inquiry didn't come through or if there was a system hiccup and your question was mistakenly posted...Read more
When do you release Syncfusion for UNO?
1 Comment
SS
Hello Ute,
Thank you very much for your interest in the work we're doing with controls for the Uno platform! It sounds like you may have already seen our...Read more
Will you sell document creator again as control or it will stay only part of Bold BI.
1 Comment
SS
Hi Igor,
Thank you very much for your question!
Within Essential Studio Enterprise Edition we do offer a dashboard layout control - please see...Read more
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