Entry doors sell through dealers and installers, so what brands publish is narrow: material, warranty terms and glass options. Those are comparable. Installed price is not — none of these manufacturers publish one, because it depends on your opening, sidelites, glass, hardware and local labor market. Every figure below comes from the manufacturer's own site or published warranty, linked inline.
One structural note: almost every warranty here is written around a complete door system — slab, frame, sill, weatherstripping, glass — not a bare panel. That matters more than the headline word lifetime.
Six collections, per its own product line comparison: Classic-Craft (premium fiberglass, 13 exclusive decorative glass families, frameless flush-glazed options, wider glass than its other standard fiberglass doors, all clear glass Low-E); Fiber-Classic (fiberglass, realistic Oak and Mahogany woodgrain); Smooth-Star (fiberglass, smooth ready-to-paint); Pulse (contemporary, fiberglass or steel); and Profiles and Traditions (steel value tiers).
Warranty tracks the material here, which is the clearest illustration of the fiberglass-versus-steel gap anywhere in this set. The three fiberglass collections and fiberglass Pulse carry a lifetime badge; steel Pulse is 10 years; Profiles is 10 years on door and glass; Traditions is 5 years door and 10 glass. Its warranty hub publishes both a Lifetime Limited Warranty and a separate transferrable rider, plus riders for Tru-Defense, PrismaGuard, EnLiten flush glazing and composite frame. Two footnotes are worth reading before you buy: coverage excludes the finish, and it excludes installations within 5 miles of salt water.
Signet fiberglass, Ascent fiberglass and Legacy steel, with Embarq and Heritage also named on the warranty card. Signet carries the most door styles and sidelite options in the line, smooth or Cherry, Mahogany, Oak, Knotty Alder and Fir woodgrain, with a 15-year finish warranty. Ascent offers custom widths and heights in 1/8-inch increments, White Oak woodgrain or smooth, with a 10-year finish warranty. Legacy steel is 20-gauge and can be ordered with different styles or finishes on each side.
Its 2026 warranty card is the most granular document any of these publishes, titled a Lifetime Limited Transferable Warranty. The basic door and sidelite are warranted not to shrink, warp, split, crack or delaminate for as long as the original purchaser owns and lives in the home, provided it is installed without alteration and primed slabs are finished within 90 days. Glass is tiered: ComforTech Warm Edge Super Spacer glazing gets lifetime coverage including breakage and seal failure; white internal blinds 20 years; colored internal blinds 10 years with breakage not covered; glass without ComforTech 10 years. Transfer is to one subsequent purchaser, within 30 days of the ownership change, online. Outside a single-family owner-occupied home the basic door drops to 5 years and is non-transferable.
The site carries Owens Corning branding and an Owens Corning copyright line, reflecting its ownership (masonite.com). The flagship is the Masonite Performance Door System, premium fiberglass built around a 4-Point Performance Seal: a square-edge door fitting flush into its frame, a self-adjusting sill, adaptive memory-foam weatherstripping and enhanced corner pads, on a rot-resistant frame.
The warranty is structured differently and the difference matters. There is limited lifetime coverage on key components — door slab, sills, sill pans, rot-resistant and composite frames, weatherstripping, corner pads, door bottom and sweep — plus a 10-year limited full replacement warranty that Masonite states covers both the cost of the door and the re-installation. Labor is what most warranties in this category exclude, so a named replacement-plus-reinstallation term is a real distinction.
On product specifics, Masonite describes its M-Protect multi-point locking as four times stronger than a standard deadbolt, with its own footnote that testing was on a door without glass and results may vary, and impact resistance to 480 joules. Its VistaGrande and Winslow flush-glazed fiberglass doors allow up to 18% more light than doors with traditional glass frames, per Masonite. Many of its front and patio doors are ENERGY STAR certified.
Three fiberglass exterior collections: Smooth-Pro, an economical smooth door that reads as painted wood once finished; Design-Pro, with a stainable woodgrain texture; and the Architectural Collection, a premium line with six woodgrains and multiple stain options, its woodgrain replication attributed to MasterGrain's nickel vapor deposition process. Jeld-Wen also makes steel exterior doors.
We are not quoting a warranty term for Jeld-Wen, and that is deliberate. Terms vary by collection and by where the door was bought, and we could not reach a Jeld-Wen-published warranty document stating them. Ask your dealer for the warranty document matching your specific unit rather than relying on a category-level claim, including any claim you find on a retailer's site rather than the manufacturer's.
Pella builds fiberglass, steel and wood front doors, and publishes a Limited Lifetime Warranty applying specifically to fiberglass or steel entry door and composite frame systems, including sidelights and transoms. Non-glass materials and workmanship are warranted free from defects that significantly impair proper use and function. Hardware is carved out at ten years: hinges, handle sets, knobs, levers, deadbolts, multipoint locks and door-frame weatherstripping. Labor is included within two years of the date of sale by Pella or its authorized dealer. Lifetime coverage applies to the original purchaser in an owner-occupied single-family residence.
Andersen sits apart because its residential entry doors are wood. They are handcrafted entranceways available inswing or outswing, with a low-profile sill option, and the wood can be left natural, stained, or protected by aluminum exteriors — that last is how you get the look of wood with a cladded exterior. Most are available in industry-standard widths of 3 feet and 3 feet 6 inches and heights of 6 feet 8 inches and 8 feet, and Andersen states its entry door warranty is transferable (residential entry doors). They are priced at the top of Andersen's own five-tier scale. If you want a genuine wood entranceway rather than fiberglass imitating one, this is the mainstream way to buy it.
The frame. Brand roundups compare slabs and stop, but on a prehung unit the frame is half the product, and it is the half that meets water. ProVia is the clearest example, with four frame materials each carrying different warranty terms. FusionFrame and PermaTech composite get lifetime coverage against rot and decay while the original purchaser owns and lives in the home. FrameSaver full wood gets that same lifetime rot coverage on wood components only if all exposed wood is protected by an aluminum cladding system installed to ProVia's instructions; if it is merely painted or stained on an inswing unit, or if the unit is outswing, coverage drops to two years. The steel L-frame is five years. Same brand, same door, four very different long-term positions. Ask which frame material is on your quote.
Installers carry specific manufacturers, so the brand conversation starts with whoever you invite to quote. Clear Choice Home Improvements, for example, lists ProVia as its door manufacturer on its own site. Ask each company which manufacturer and collection they are quoting, which frame material comes with it, and whether the warranty they describe is the manufacturer's product warranty or their own labor warranty — those are two separate documents that rarely have the same length. Then get the actual warranty PDF rather than a summary. Every manufacturer above publishes one.
We do not verify contractor licensing or insurance. Confirm both directly with each company, and check with your local building department, which can tell you what your state actually requires for door installation work and whether a permit applies to your job.
Fiberglass is where the strongest published warranties sit — Therma-Tru, ProVia, Masonite and Pella all put lifetime-limited terms on fiberglass entry door systems, and Therma-Tru's own table shows its steel collections at 5 to 10 years. Choose ProVia if transferability and a granular itemized warranty matter most, Masonite for a named replacement-and-reinstallation term, Therma-Tru for the widest decorative glass selection, Pella for fiberglass, steel and wood from one source, and Andersen for a real wood entranceway. Then ask which frame material comes with it, because that is the half of the product that meets water.
Brand roundups compare door slabs and stop there, which is how people end up surprised by a two-year frame warranty on a door sold as lifetime. On a prehung unit the frame is half of what you are buying and it is the half that meets water - ProVia alone has four frame materials whose coverage runs from five years to lifetime. Ask which frame material is on the quote, and ask whether the warranty being described is the manufacturer's or the installer's, because those are two different documents.
These are the questions homeowners ask most often before starting this project - what it costs, how long it takes, what a fair quote looks like and which details change the price. Each answer below is written to stand on its own, so you can read just the one you need.
