Treated lumber. Yeah, it’ll rot in 20ish years give or take, but it’s half the cost or less for the materials and probably so much easier to work with it’ll reduce labor costs (whether you’re diy’ing or paying someone). If you maintain it by sealing or painting every year or two you can easily get longer lifetimes. This composite, you scratch it, there’s no fixing it. You cut a bird wrong, there’s no cheating it.

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By treated you mean regular lumber that you put a sealer on whenever it needs it not pressure treated? I don't much care for the composite but wood deck can be a lot of upkeep. Not a whole lot of options for an above ground deck.

No I mean pressure treated and then follow that up with sealer/paint whichever. Me and my pops built the deck on our old house when I was 12, it got totally neglected, the decking didn’t get squishy for about 15 years.