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Comparison · Mkt Auto
Eleventy vs ClickFunnels
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Eleventy and ClickFunnels — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Eleventy vs ClickFunnels: at a glance
| Feature | Eleventy | ClickFunnels |
|---|---|---|
| Sector | Mkt Auto | Mkt Auto |
| Velocity score | 5.0 | 6.3 |
| Sparks · 30d | 0 | 0 |
| Top themes | static-site-generator, rebrand, breaking-changes, async-templates | funnel-analytics, revenue-attribution, api-surface, bot-protection |
| Last editorial update | 2h ago | 5h ago |
| Website | Visit → | — |
What is Eleventy?
The v4 canary line is being renamed Build Awesome while 3.x is kept on pure maintenance.
Two lines run in parallel. The 3.x branch gets dependency-only releases — 3.1.5 and 3.1.6 explicitly ship no core code changes, after 3.1.3 and 3.1.4 failed to publish and were left as immutable dead tags. The v4 alpha train, meanwhile, is where the work is: Node minimum raised to 22.15, page.inputPathDir and page.dir removed, batched incremental builds added, and a large refactor of the Nunjucks fork onto a fully-async prerelease. The releases themselves now carry the Build Awesome name and offer an @awesome.me/buildawesome install alongside @11ty/eleventy@canary.
What is ClickFunnels?
Measurement gets granular while the API quietly opens ClickFunnels up to outside agents
ClickFunnels ships in batched drops — typically two named features and one bundled "Improvements" post. The recent run is dominated by measurement: orders can be filtered by the funnel that produced them, the Opt-ins tab records every opt-in a contact submits rather than one row per person, and funnel analytics gained all-time and year-to-date ranges with revenue totals across every order type. Alongside that, Under Attack Mode gained a Strong tier issuing an interactive challenge per domain to stop card-testing bots. The remainder is builder quality-of-life and reliability work.
Eleventy vs ClickFunnels: editorial side-by-side
Eleventy
5.0MKT AUTO
The v4 canary line is being renamed Build Awesome while 3.x is kept on pure maintenance.
◆ Current state
Two lines run in parallel. The 3.x branch gets dependency-only releases — 3.1.5 and 3.1.6 explicitly ship no core code changes, after 3.1.3 and 3.1.4 failed to publish and were left as immutable dead tags. The v4 alpha train, meanwhile, is where the work is: Node minimum raised to 22.15, page.inputPathDir and page.dir removed, batched incremental builds added, and a large refactor of the Nunjucks fork onto a fully-async prerelease. The releases themselves now carry the Build Awesome name and offer an @awesome.me/buildawesome install alongside @11ty/eleventy@canary.
◆ Where it's heading
v4 is accumulating breaking changes faster than it is stabilizing — three of the entries in this window announce removals or minimum-version bumps, and alpha.10 exists only to hotfix a regression alpha.9 introduced. The Nunjucks refactor is the biggest bet: making the fork fully async removes the need for async-specific template tags, but the release notes flag it as risky for existing Nunjucks users. The naming change is proceeding on the same timeline, so users tracking canary are absorbing an identity shift and an API shift at once.
◆ Prediction
Expect more v4 alphas carrying breaking removals before any beta, with the Nunjucks async refactor generating follow-up regressions; 3.x looks likely to keep receiving dependency-only patches with no core changes.
ClickFunnels
6.3MKT AUTO
Measurement gets granular while the API quietly opens ClickFunnels up to outside agents
◆ Current state
ClickFunnels ships in batched drops — typically two named features and one bundled "Improvements" post. The recent run is dominated by measurement: orders can be filtered by the funnel that produced them, the Opt-ins tab records every opt-in a contact submits rather than one row per person, and funnel analytics gained all-time and year-to-date ranges with revenue totals across every order type. Alongside that, Under Attack Mode gained a Strong tier issuing an interactive challenge per domain to stop card-testing bots. The remainder is builder quality-of-life and reliability work.
◆ Where it's heading
Two threads run underneath the cadence. The first is attribution: each of the last several feature drops answers a variant of "which funnel actually made the money", moving the product from counting contacts toward tracing revenue back through funnel steps and traffic sources. The second is surface area — the API expansion published on July 17 framed workflows, community management and bulk contact actions as reach for integrations and the AI agents built on top of them, which serves a different customer than the funnel builder the UI is aimed at. The anti-fraud tier is the defensive cost of a platform whose checkout pages are public and therefore targets.
◆ Prediction
The measurement thread has further to run: opt-in and order data are now step-level and funnel-level but not yet joined into one conversion view, which is the obvious next assembly. Whether the API push continues at the same pace is not readable from these entries — only one of the last ten touches it.
Alternatives to Eleventy and ClickFunnels
Other Mkt Auto products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Eleventy or ClickFunnels.
Pimcore
Nearly every release in this window carries security hardening — Pimcore is working through an injection sweep.
Hugo
Steady feature-then-patch cadence, with security reports rising because AI tools are finding them
n8n
n8n's daily patch train hides the real work: hardening its MCP server into a proper auth resource.
OneSignal
OneSignal is arguing a new category into existence before showing the product behind it.
Kit (formerly ConvertKit)
Kit rebuilt its landing page editor, then handed the controls to an AI agent.
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Recent activity from Eleventy and ClickFunnels
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoClickFunnelsð¡ï¸ Stronger Bot Protection with Under Attack Mode
- 1d agoClickFunnels𧩠Smoother Building in the Funnel Editor And More
- 1d agoClickFunnelsAgency add-on purchases, workflow dropdown and template-name fixes
- 8d agoClickFunnels𧾠Filter Orders by the Funnel That Made the Sale
- 8d agoClickFunnelsð¥ See Every Opt-In, Not Just Every Contact
- 8d agoClickFunnelsBroadcast audience-count and listing reliability fixes
- 1mo agoEleventyNunjucks fork refactored onto a fully-async prerelease
- 1mo agoEleventyNode 22.15 minimum, page path properties removed
- 1mo agoEleventyHotfix for a layout cache invalidation regression
- 1mo agoEleventyEleventy v3.1.6: Everybody wants to do Maintenance
- 4mo agoEleventyCanary warns the Eleventy name is changing to Build Awesome ⚡
- 4mo agoEleventyDead tag: this release failed to publish, use 3.1.5
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Eleventy and ClickFunnels?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. ClickFunnels is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Eleventy better than ClickFunnels?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. ClickFunnels is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Mkt Auto products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Eleventy?
Top Eleventy alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Eleventy alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/eleventy for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to ClickFunnels?
Top ClickFunnels alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "ClickFunnels alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/clickfunnels for the full list with editorial commentary on each.