Browse and compare 47 digital experience and content management platforms, independently scored across 184 criteria — from developer experience and content authoring to total cost of ownership, AI capabilities, and compliance.
47 platforms
Adobe Experience Manager is the most complete enterprise suite for running many sites, brands and languages from one place, with a full digital asset manager, managed cloud hosting and one of the broadest compliance portfolios in the market.
SitecoreAI is Sitecore's vendor-hosted, headless platform, formerly XM Cloud, that puts the CMS, personalization, A/B testing, site search, a DAM and AI agents under one license.
Optimizely PaaS DXP is a .NET content platform (CMS 13) that Optimizely hosts on Azure or that you can run yourself, with commerce, experimentation and AI agents available as companion products.
Contentstack is a fully managed headless CMS with polished editing, strong developer tooling and one of the most complete AI agent layers among the platforms we score.
Acquia sells managed Drupal with one of the strongest compliance records among the platforms we score, including FedRAMP Moderate, SOC 2 Type 2 and a HIPAA offering.
Uniform is a cloud-only digital experience platform that sits over your content sources and lets marketers compose, personalize and test pages visually on a headless frontend.
Progress Sitefinity is a .NET-based digital experience platform for mid-size enterprises that want marketer-friendly page building, built-in personalization and A/B testing, and many sites run from one instance.
CoreMedia is a Hamburg-built enterprise platform that serves content both as rendered websites and through a GraphQL API, with deep strength in multi-site, multi-language and commerce-led experiences.
Brightspot is an enterprise CMS built in Java for publishers, broadcasters, government bodies and multi-site corporate estates, sold with vendor-managed hosting on AWS or as a self-hosted license.
Liferay is an enterprise portal turned digital experience platform, and it is strongest where people log in: intranets, customer and partner portals, and B2B commerce.
Jahia is a Swiss and French enterprise DXP that combines a Java content platform with its own customer data and personalization layer.
Magnolia is a Swiss, Java-based enterprise DXP that pairs strong visual page editing with headless delivery, so marketers can build pages by drag and drop even on React, Vue or Next.js frontends.
Xperience by Kentico is a .NET digital experience platform that puts content, email, marketing automation, segmentation and basic commerce in one product, hosted by Kentico as SaaS or run in your own cloud.
dotCMS is a Java hybrid CMS that runs many sites from one instance and gives editors a visual editor that also works on headless Next.js, Angular and Astro front ends.
Bloomreach is a commerce-first suite: product search and merchandising, cross-channel marketing automation, AI personalization and a headless CMS, sold as separate products on one customer profile.
Salesforce Experience Cloud is the portal and community layer of the Salesforce CRM, built for authenticated customer, partner and employee sites that run on CRM data.
Sitecore XP is a self-hosted or Sitecore-managed .NET suite that pairs content management with its own visitor database, rule-based personalization, A/B testing, email and marketing automation.
HCL Digital Experience is the former IBM WebSphere Portal, now an enterprise DXP built for logged-in experiences such as employee intranets, partner portals and government services.
Kentico Xperience 13 is a self-hosted .NET digital experience platform with a capable built-in marketing suite: contact segmentation, A/B testing, marketing automation, email and a full e-commerce module.
Contentful is an API-first SaaS headless CMS with excellent APIs, field-level localization and one of the strongest AI and agent toolsets among the platforms we score.
Optimizely SaaS CMS is a fully managed headless CMS with a strong visual page builder, GraphQL delivery through Optimizely Graph and one of the most complete AI agent platforms among the platforms we score.
Sanity is a developer-first headless CMS that keeps structured content in a managed cloud backend and lets teams define the editing interface in code.
Storyblok is a SaaS headless CMS built around one of the strongest visual editors on the market: marketers assemble pages on the live site while developers keep standard React, Vue or native mobile stacks.
Kontent.ai is a governed, cloud-only headless CMS that stands out for compliance and AI governance: it holds SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, 27017 and 27018, and was the first CMS certified under ISO/IEC 42001 for AI management.
Hygraph is a GraphQL-native headless CMS built for developers who want content from many systems behind one API.
Payload CMS is an MIT-licensed, TypeScript-first headless CMS that runs inside your own Next.js application, now owned by Figma.
DatoCMS is a fully managed headless CMS that pairs a polished GraphQL delivery API with the strongest image and video pipeline among the headless platforms we score, built on Imgix transforms, Mux streaming and a Cloudflare edge.
Directus is a database-first content platform that turns any SQL database into a set of collections with auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs, a Vue-based Data Studio and policy-based permissions down to the field and row.
Enonic is a Norwegian hybrid CMS that pairs a structured, schema-as-code content model with a visual page editor that also works on Next.js frontends.
Agility CMS is a SaaS headless CMS for marketing teams that want page management and visual editing on top of a clean API.
Cosmic is a small, cloud-only headless CMS that has rebuilt itself around AI: agents, a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, event-triggered workflows and native text, image and video generation are included on every plan, Free included.
Strapi is the most widely adopted open-source headless CMS: an MIT-licensed Node.js and TypeScript backend you can self-host for free or run on Strapi Cloud.
Prismic is a managed headless CMS built around a slice-based Page Builder for Next.js, Nuxt and SvelteKit sites.
Webflow is a visual website platform that designs, manages and hosts marketing sites in one subscription.
WordPress VIP is Automattic's managed enterprise WordPress platform, built for organizations that publish at very high traffic.
HubSpot Content Hub is a fully hosted CMS built on HubSpot's CRM, aimed at marketing teams that want to run their own website.
Drupal is a free, GPL-licensed CMS with one of the deepest content models and permission systems of any platform we score, a multilingual stack built into core, and an extension ecosystem of tens of thousands of modules.
Drupal CMS is the packaged, marketer-friendly edition of Drupal: free, open source, and preloaded with the Canvas visual page builder, a full SEO toolkit, forms, site templates and optional AI tools.
Umbraco is a free, open-source .NET content management system with a well-liked editing interface, strong multilingual and multi-site support, and optional managed hosting on Umbraco Cloud from €45 a month.
Squiz DXP is a managed SaaS suite built around Squiz Matrix, a long-running traditional CMS, with first-party enterprise search, a customer data platform, forms and personalization sold as separate capabilities.
WordPress is the free, GPL-licensed CMS behind more than 40 percent of the web, and its defining trade is total freedom in exchange for total responsibility.
Craft CMS is a developer-first PHP content management system from Pixel & Tonic, sold as a perpetual per-project license (Solo free, Team $279, Pro $399) or bundled into Craft Cloud managed hosting at $130 to $260 a month.
TYPO3 is a free, open-source PHP CMS built for organizations that run many multilingual websites from one installation.
Statamic is a self-hosted CMS built on Laravel that stores content as Markdown and YAML files in your own Git repository, with an optional database driver.
Concrete CMS is a free, MIT-licensed PHP content management system whose defining feature is editing directly on the live page: editors click a block, change it in place, and approve a version.
Ghost is an open-source publishing platform built around a website, email newsletters and paid memberships, run by a non-profit foundation that publishes its finances live.
Joomla is a free, GPL-licensed PHP CMS that ships multilingual publishing, nested categories and tags, granular access control, editorial workflows and scheduled publishing in the core download, with no paid tiers and no vendor contract.
