Comparison

11ty vs Hugo

11ty and Hugo both land on Depends.

11ty

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy if you are a developer (or have one) building a fast content site and want zero licence cost.

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Use Hugo if you have a developer comfortable with the command line and want a free, blazing-fast static site.

11ty versus Hugo
Compare	11ty	Hugo
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	Developer-built marketing sites	Developer-run blogs and docs sites
Who it's not for	Non-technical teams wanting a drag-and-drop builder	Non-technical marketers needing WYSIWYG editing
Privacy	Core project maintains a security policy and hardened npm publishing; no core breaches found, but one malicious third-party plugin and dependency audit warnings exist.¹²	Active project with fast patching; one HIGH (CVSS 8.6) CVE and one moderate advisory found . no breaches reported.
Support quality	Community-only help; no vendor SLA evidence.	Community forum and GitHub only, no vendor SLA
Public sentiment	Developer sentiment is strongly positive on speed and simplicity, with recurring caveats that it demands coding skills and its project direction has sparked debate.^⁷	Community discussion centers on Hugo's build speed and flexibility, with a consistent learning-curve caveat around templates and self-managed deploys.
Biggest gotcha	No paid support or SLA exists; help is docs, forums, and community goodwill.^⁵	CVE-2026-75926 (CVSS 8.6) hit versions 0.162.0-0.164.x . update promptly.