Comparing ACF vs Meta Box Performance

In this video we do a simple comparison of ACF and Meta Box performance. It is difficult to compare them because they have different architectures, but we learn some things in the video and we are able to draw some conclusions.
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0:00 Introduction
0:44 ACF Overview
1:49 Overview of Meta Box
4:20 WP Hive Comparison (not a good comparison)
7:24 ACF Free vs Meta Box Free (understanding different architectures)
12:01 ACF Pro vs Meta Box Pro
19:50 Database and Adding a Custom Field
29:10 Disabling Unneeded Meta Box Features
30:23 Discussion and Conclusions

[@gashumba888]

As much as I like to optimize my sites for speed, I don't concern myself with the minor inconvenience provided by the plugins as long as the functionality needed takes precedence. ACF is more user friendly to me and my clients.

[@stratos-tutorials]

Thanks David. Always nice to see a comparison video. I dont know why, I am always interested no mater the topic.

[@jugibur2117]

Thanks for your effort David! I switched to MetaBox a while ago because I had read that it was more efficient in terms of storing the data (and because of LTD at the time)

[@eucalyptech]

Very well done, thank you David for this in-depth video 👍

[@webgeneral]

Awesome in-depth performance comparison, David!

[@jimykx2]

Thank you for the awesome in dept comparison David it is much apreciated.

[@samrizzi9027]

Hey! David glad to see a performance comparison video on these two big players in the game. Will love to see one for ACF vs CubeWP ;) Thanks!

[@dannyardika9942]

CubeWP, interesting!

[@kwsim539]

Great video! I would love to see the same comparison video between Metabox and ACPT.

[@luxhk3377]

👍 thanks for your effort

[@VladimirVarbanov-ct2ry]

good comparison

[@kevinschmidt2210]

I want to use Meta Box because you can do so much more with it compared to ACF. However, the instructions are ridiculously overly complicated compared to user friendly ACF.

[@DavidMcCan]

It started out as just a developer tool, so it still has some of that in the docs.

[@kevinschmidt2210]

@@DavidMcCan Yes, they assume the user knows how to code.

[@arnaudardansii1745]

As David mentioned this plugin was originally built and advertised as a developer centered product. It has expanded to being easier for end users. So it will probably always be developer first

[@kevinschmidt2210]

@@arnaudardansii1745 Yes, he already mentioned that. Are you a spokesperson for Metabox? If not, you do not get to speak for them, especially when you use the word "probably." That tells me you don't know what they will do in the future, and you're just giving your own opinion, which is "probably" wrong.

[@HaifengZhu-pn3uq]

How about Toolset VS Metabox?

[@Gyana.Ranjan]

Compare jETENGIENE WITH IT