Button widgets for Elementor get sold as the fix for a problem most sites do not have. Elementor’s own Button widget is free, ships inside the core plugin, and already handles typography, icons, hover colors, border radius and box shadow. So the real question is not which addon draws the prettiest button. It is whether you need a second plugin at all. Below is where the answer is genuinely yes, where it is no, and what each pack actually costs.
Quick verdict
Best overall: the Button widget already inside Elementor. It is free, adds no extra plugin, and covers the styling most people arrive here looking for.
Best free addon: Essential Addons Lite. Its Creative Buttons widget sits in the free plugin, not behind the paywall, and the plugin has over a million active installs behind it.
Best paid pick: PowerPack, if you genuinely need grouped multi-button rows with per-button styling. The Plus Addons if you want tooltips and a big preset library instead.
Skip it if: you want one call-to-action styled slightly differently. That is a handful of CSS lines in Elementor’s custom CSS box, not a 100-widget plugin.
Our call: do not install an addon pack for buttons alone. If you already run one, use its button widget. If you do not, core plus CSS wins on every axis that matters.
Best Button Widgets for Elementor in 2026 Compared
| Addon | Button widget in the free version? | Single-site list price | Renewal | Sites on the entry plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elementor (core Button) | Yes | Free | n/a | Unlimited |
| Essential Addons | Yes, Creative Buttons | Pro from $4.99/mo billed annually ($59.88 a year) | Not published | 1 |
| The Plus Addons | Yes, Buttons | $43 a year | 20% off, about $34 | 1 |
| Qi Addons | Yes, Button | $49 a year | Not published | 1 |
| Exclusive Addons | Yes, Button | $39 a year | Not published | 1 |
| PowerPack | Yes, Buttons in the Lite plugin | $49 a year | 30% off, about $34 | 1 |
| Ultimate Addons (UAE) | No button widget in the free plugin | $69 a year | $69 a year | 3 |
| Crocoblock JetElements | No free tier | $75 a year | No separate renewal rate published | 1 project |
| Elfsight Button | Yes, capped at 200 views a month | $6/mo billed monthly, $4/mo billed yearly ($48 a year) | Same rate | Unlimited sites, 5,000 views/mo |
| Droit Addons | Free plugin closed on WordPress.org since 7 March 2024 | $49 a year | Not published | 1 |
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Elementor’s Built-In Button Widget
Start here, because every roundup that skips this section is selling you something. The Button widget is one of the 40-plus free widgets in the core Elementor plugin, which runs on over ten million sites. You get text, link, alignment, size, icon and icon position on the Content tab, then typography, text color, background, border type and radius, box shadow and padding on the Style tab, each with its own hover state and a hover transition duration.
What it does not give you is a preset animation library, tooltips, or a multi-button group in one widget. Those are the only three things the addons below genuinely add.
Key features: full hover state control, icon support, per-breakpoint sizing, custom CSS box (available with Elementor Pro), and no extra plugin loading on the front end.
Price: free with Elementor.
Best for: everyone, until you can name the specific effect you are missing.
Skip it if: you need eight buttons in a styled row and refuse to build that with a flex container.
Essential Addons Creative Buttons
Here is the correction most roundups never make: Creative Buttons is in the free Essential Addons Lite plugin, listed among its 60-plus free widgets. You do not need Pro for it. The free plugin passed a million active installs and holds a 4.9 rating across roughly 4,100 reviews.
The widget itself gives you preset hover effects, custom icons, shape and color control, and grouped button layouts. Crucially, Essential Addons has an element control screen that lets you switch off every widget you are not using, so you are not shipping the whole library’s worth of assets to load one button.
- Preset hover effects and transitions out of the box
- Custom icons, shapes and colors
- Grouped buttons displayed together
- Per-widget enable and disable to keep assets down
Price: Creative Buttons is free. Pro starts at $4.99 a month billed annually for one site, which is $59.88 up front, and was discounted to $3.99 a month on the check date. Lifetime unlimited was listed at $179.99, down from $299.99, on WPDeveloper’s upgrade page.
Best for: anyone who wants animated buttons without paying, and who will actually use the widget toggles.
Skip it if: you install it and leave all 60 widgets enabled. Then you have bought yourself a page weight problem to solve a styling one.
The Plus Addons Buttons
The Plus Addons splits buttons into two widgets: a free Buttons widget in the Lite plugin on WordPress.org (100,000-plus installs, 4.6 stars) and an Advanced Buttons widget in the paid tier. The paid one is where the tooltip options and the larger preset library live.
If you are already leaning on this pack for its mega menu or page-scroll effects, its buttons come along for free and there is no reason to look further. Buying the pack purely for Advanced Buttons is a different proposition, and a harder one to justify.
- Free Buttons widget, paid Advanced Buttons widget
- Advanced tooltip positioning and styling
- Large preset style library
- Hover effects with per-state color and border control
Price: the Starter plan lists at $43 a year for one site and was on sale at $39 on the check date, per The Plus Addons pricing page. Renewals are discounted 20%, so roughly $34 on the list price. A one-time Starter licence was $139.
Best for: sites that want tooltips on buttons without writing them by hand.
Skip it if: tooltips on a button are a usability decision you have not actually made yet. They hide information from touch users.
Qi Addons Button
Qi is the tidiest of the free packs. The Button widget sits in the free plugin (200,000-plus installs, 4.8 stars) and gives you three honest layouts, filled, outlined and textual, plus switchable sizes and custom typography. A separate Premium Button widget adds SVG shapes and gradient backgrounds.
Qi also loads widget assets on demand rather than sitewide, which is the behaviour you want from any pack you add. That matters more than the widget count on the box, and it is the same reasoning behind picking a lean single post layout over a template stuffed with modules.
- Filled, outlined and textual layouts
- Switchable button sizes and custom fonts
- SVG shapes and gradient backgrounds in the Premium Button
- On-demand asset loading
Price: free version on WordPress.org. Premium is $49 for a single website or $99 for unlimited, each including one year of support and updates, on the Qode Interactive product page. No separate renewal rate is published.
Best for: designers who want restrained, well-built button styles and care about asset loading.
Skip it if: you want heavy animation. Qi is deliberately understated.
Exclusive Addons Button
Exclusive Addons is the smallest install base in this list at 50,000-plus, but the Button widget is in the free plugin alongside about 40 other free widgets, and it does what it says: shapes, sizes, custom icons, hover effects and a set of button animations.
The pack has the lowest single-site list price of the paid addons in the table above, at $39 a year. That is a list-price comparison, not a promotional one, and promotional pricing on this page moves around.
Price: free version on WordPress.org. Starter lists at $39 a year for one site and was discounted to $29 on the check date, per the Exclusive Addons pricing page. Prices exclude VAT. A one-time Personal licence was listed at $109, discounted to $69. No renewal rate is published.
Best for: a tight budget where you still want a maintained pack behind the widget.
Skip it if: long-term support matters more than the price. Fifty thousand installs and 47 reviews is a thinner track record than the others here.
PowerPack Buttons
PowerPack’s Buttons widget is the one genuine capability gap in this whole roundup. It puts several buttons inside a single widget with independent styling, spacing and alignment for each, which is fiddlier to build from containers than people expect once you add responsive breakpoints.
The old claim that PowerPack is premium-only is out of date. The free Lite plugin (70,000-plus installs, 4.8 stars) includes a Buttons widget. Pro adds the display conditions engine, which overlaps with the dynamic visibility plugins you may already run, so check before you double up.
- Multiple buttons in one widget with per-button styling
- Tooltip option per button
- Spacing and alignment controls across breakpoints
- Free Lite version includes the widget
Price: Starter is $49 a year for one site on the PowerPack pricing page, with a stated 30% renewal discount, which is about $34 a year after the first. A one-time Starter licence was $199, discounted to $159.
Best for: pricing pages, comparison rows, anywhere two or three CTAs sit side by side.
Skip it if: you only ever place one button at a time. The free Lite widget covers that anyway.
Ultimate Addons for Elementor (UAE)
UAE, from the Astra team, is the biggest name here by installs. The free plugin passes two million active installs, but read the widget list before you get excited: the free version ships 18+ widgets and no button widget, on the stated grounds that Elementor already has one. That is an honest position, and it is the same one this article takes.
Pro adds the multi-button widget with dual-color buttons, info buttons and social share variants. UAE Pro is also the only Elementor addon pack in the table whose entry plan covers more than one site. Every other pack sells its entry tier for a single site, and Elfsight is a hosted embed rather than an addon.
Price: Ultimate Addons Pro is $69 a year for three sites on the UAE pricing page, with no introductory discount shown, so it renews at the same $69. A one-time licence was $349, discounted to $319.
Best for: freelancers running two or three sites who want one licence covering all of them.
Skip it if: you have one site. At $69 for a single site in use, only Crocoblock costs more, and that is for a widget five packs here give away.
Crocoblock JetElements
The button widget in Crocoblock lives in JetElements, and this is where the old pricing on this page was furthest off. JetElements is not a $43 plugin. It is the most expensive single-site option in the table.
Nobody should buy JetElements for its button. People buy Crocoblock for JetEngine and dynamic content, and the button arrives as part of that decision. If you are building a listing directory or a custom post type front end, the whole subscription is the thing worth evaluating, not this widget.
Price: JetElements alone is $75 a year for one project or $169 a year for unlimited, on the Crocoblock pricing page. The All-Inclusive bundle of 22 JetPlugins is $199 a year for one site, and a lifetime unlimited licence is $999. There is no free tier.
Best for: people already committed to the Jet ecosystem for dynamic content.
Skip it if: buttons are the reason you are reading. $75 a year for a button widget is not a defensible spend when five packs here give one away.
Elfsight Button
Elfsight is not an Elementor addon. It is a hosted widget you configure on Elfsight’s site and embed, which is why it works on any builder and why it behaves differently from everything else here. The button is really a floating action or call-us element rather than an inline CTA.
Two things to weigh. It loads third-party JavaScript from Elfsight’s servers on every page it appears, which is a real cost when you are trying to speed up a WordPress site and keep Core Web Vitals in the green. And the free tier is metered at 200 views a month, which a live site will burn through in a day.
Price: free for 200 views a month and one widget. Basic is $6 a month billed monthly, or $4 a month billed yearly, which is $48 a year, for 5,000 views a month and three widgets, per the Elfsight Button pricing page. Paid plans allow unlimited websites.
Best for: a floating contact or call button across several sites on one subscription.
Skip it if: you want a normal button in your content. Metered views and an external script are the wrong trade for that.
Droit Addons Button Pro: Do Not Install This One
This entry used to be a recommendation on this page. It is not one now, and the reason is on the record. The free Droit Elementor Addons plugin was closed on WordPress.org on 7 March 2024, with the directory listing the reason as a security issue. It has not been restored since.
A closed listing means no automatic updates through WordPress for anyone still running the free version, which is exactly the situation a good set of WordPress security plugins exists to warn you about. The paid version is still sold at $49 a year, discounted to $29, on the DroitThemes pricing page, and the developer may well have fixed the issue. We are not linking you to a purchase on that basis.
Our call: if you have the free plugin active, deactivate it and rebuild those buttons with core Elementor before you do anything else.
What Most Button Widget Roundups Get Wrong
They never mention the free widget you already have. Every list opens by declaring Elementor’s Button widget limited. It is not limited. It has hover states, icons, box shadow and full typography control. It lacks preset animations. Those are different complaints.
They quote the pack price as the button price. Nobody sells a button widget. They sell a 70-to-120-widget pack, and the button is thrown in. Comparing $39 against $75 is comparing two subscriptions you would only buy for other reasons.
They ignore what removing the plugin does. This is the real cost. Every button you build with an addon widget is stored in the page as that widget’s data. Deactivate the pack and those elements vanish from the layout on every page that used them. A styled core button survives any plugin decision you make later.
They treat page weight as free. Widget packs register styles and scripts, and several load them sitewide unless you dig into the settings and disable unused modules. That is not a reason to avoid addons. It is a reason to enable only what you use, and to build interactions like popups with the tools already in your stack rather than stacking three packs that each do the same thing.
The Catch With Free Button Widgets
Five of the packs above give the button away in a free plugin. That is genuinely good, but it is a customer acquisition strategy, not charity. The free widget exists so the pack is installed on your site, where the upsell lives. That is a fair trade as long as you know it is happening.
The second catch is that free plugins can be closed, as the Droit entry above demonstrates. Before you commit a client site’s CTAs to any addon widget, look at the plugin’s update cadence and its review count, not just its install badge.
Which One Should You Actually Install
- You want a nicer-looking CTA. Style the core Button widget. Nothing to install.
- You want animated hover effects without paying. Essential Addons Lite, with unused widgets switched off.
- You need two or three buttons in a styled row. PowerPack Lite first. Upgrade to Pro at $49 a year only if you hit its limits.
- You already run an addon pack. Use its button widget. Adding a second pack for buttons is the worst option on this page.
- You are on Crocoblock for dynamic content. JetElements is already yours. Use it.
- You manage three sites and want one licence. UAE Pro at $69 a year is the only Elementor addon plan here whose entry tier covers all three.
Whichever you pick, style one button properly and then save it as a global widget. Changing your CTA color across forty pages afterwards is a two-minute job or a two-hour one, and that choice is made now.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Elementor come with a button widget?
Yes. The Button widget is one of the 40-plus free widgets in the core Elementor plugin. It gives you text, link, size, alignment, icon and icon position, plus typography, background, border radius, box shadow and padding, each with its own hover state and transition duration.
Do I need to pay for a button widget for Elementor?
No. Elementor core includes one, and the free versions of Essential Addons, The Plus Addons, Qi Addons, Exclusive Addons and PowerPack each add their own button widget at no cost. Paid tiers add preset libraries, tooltips and multi-button groups rather than the button itself.
Will my buttons break if I remove the addon plugin?
Yes, on every page that used them. Addon button elements are stored as that plugin data inside the page, so deactivating the pack removes them from the layout. Buttons built with the core Elementor widget survive any plugin you later drop, which is the strongest argument for using core.
Do Elementor button addons slow down my site?
They can. Widget packs register their own CSS and JavaScript, and some load it sitewide rather than per page. Most packs let you disable unused widgets in their settings, so switch off everything you are not using. Adding two packs that do the same job is the common mistake.
Which free Elementor addon has the best button widget?
Essential Addons Lite, on balance. Its Creative Buttons widget ships in the free plugin with preset hover effects, and the plugin has over a million active installs. Qi Addons is the better pick if you prefer restrained styles and on-demand asset loading over heavy animation.
How do I add multiple buttons in one row in Elementor?
Drop two Button widgets into a flex container and set the direction to row. That covers most cases at no cost. If you need per-button styling and responsive spacing inside a single widget, the PowerPack Buttons widget in the free Lite plugin does it in one step.
Is the Droit Addons button widget safe to use?
We would not use it. The free Droit Elementor Addons plugin was closed on WordPress.org on 7 March 2024 for a security issue and has not been restored, so the free version receives no automatic updates. Deactivate it and rebuild those buttons with the core widget.
Can I use a button widget in the Elementor header or footer?
Yes, if you have a theme builder. Elementor Pro includes one, and free plugins such as UAE add header and footer building to any theme. Once the template exists, any button widget you have installed can be placed in it like any other element.
Our Verdict
Install nothing. That is the honest answer for most people reading this, and the core Elementor Button widget is the reason why. Spend twenty minutes on its Style tab and hover states before you spend $39 to $75 a year on a pack you will use one widget from.
If you have decided you want more, take Essential Addons Lite. Creative Buttons is free, the plugin carries over a million active installs and a 4.9 rating, and you can disable everything else it ships. If you need grouped multi-button rows, PowerPack is the pack that solves an actual problem rather than a decorative one, and its Lite version is worth trying before the $49 a year.
Avoid Droit until its WordPress.org listing is restored. And if buttons are on your mind because clicks are not happening, the widget is rarely the bottleneck. Offer, placement and page speed usually are, which is where work on your conversion rate pays back faster than any hover animation. For everything else Elementor addons are good for, see our wider guide to the best Elementor addons.
