SuperDuper Clone vs Disk Utility Image, what's the difference?

I use Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) to clone a macOS boot drive since CCC also recreates the hidden recovery partition. I've never had an issue using CCC to clone a bootable macOS drive. Disk Utility tends to have issues cloning a bootable drive and I'm not sure if it will recreate the hidden partitions (it never used to, but I don't know about today -- I doubt it though). I'll use Disk Utility to create images of small folders, but that is all I will use Disk Utility for as Disk Utility is a terrible app and it is only getting worse.

I know SuperDuper is a good app, but I don't use it since CCC is easier to use. At one time I don't think SuperDuper recreated the hidden recovery partition, but I don't know about today.

I suggest you use either CCC or SuperDuper for cloning your drive.

Agreed. I gave Disk Utility a pass on use because it does work. But yes, it's always been clumsy in comparison to CCC.

I used SuperDuper! for many years and switched to CCC when SD! was stalled on a version that would even work with Catalina. I found CCC to be much better and faster. Even now, since I have a license, I tried SD! again to make a bootable clone. It bombed out with an error and wouldn't finish. CCC? No problem.

I'll be sticking with CCC.

If you're only using the free version of SuperDuper!, then there's virtually no difference. Both will erase the target drive, copy every single file and folder over, and make the target drive bootable.