Browse and compare 44 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.
44 platforms
Adobe Experience Manager is the most complete enterprise suite among the platforms we score.
SitecoreAI is Sitecore's SaaS digital experience platform, the successor to XM Cloud, with the CDP, Personalize, Search, a DAM tier and Agentic Studio bundled into one license.
Optimizely PaaS DXP is the self-managed .NET edition of Optimizely CMS, now on CMS 13 with Visual Builder as the default editing surface, Optimizely Graph as the GraphQL delivery layer and Opti ID as the identity service.
Contentstack is an enterprise headless CMS that has grown into an agent-driven content platform.
Acquia is the enterprise way to run Drupal: managed hosting on AWS, Site Factory for large site portfolios, a first-party DAM, and a compliance record (FedRAMP Moderate, HIPAA, PCI DSS Level 1, SOC 2 Type 2) that few platforms match.
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.
Uniform is a composable platform that sits on top of other content and commerce systems and assembles them into finished experiences.
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 Java-based hybrid DXP from Geneva that bundles a CMS, the jExperience personalization layer built on Apache Unomi (a customer data platform Jahia created), Augmented Search and Jahia Forms into one Enterprise subscription.
Magnolia is a Swiss Java DXP that pairs a traditional page editor with a Visual SPA Editor, so marketers get click-to-edit authoring whether the frontend is FreeMarker or React, Angular, Vue or Next.js.
Xperience by Kentico is a .NET digital experience platform that puts content, email, marketing automation, personalization and basic commerce in one product, hosted as managed SaaS or in your own cloud.
Bloomreach is a commerce experience suite with a CMS attached, not a content platform that grew commerce features.
dotCMS is a Java content platform that runs many sites from one install and serves them either through its own templates or through REST and GraphQL APIs with a visual editor that also works on Next.js and Angular front ends.
Sitecore XP is a deeply capable but aging enterprise digital experience platform (DXP) built on the .NET Framework.
Salesforce Experience Cloud is Salesforce's platform for customer, partner and employee portals built directly on its CRM.
Kentico Xperience 13 is a mature, all-in-one .NET digital experience platform with a proven workflow engine, a complete native commerce module, a marketer-friendly Page Builder and a built-in marketing suite covering segmentation, A/B testing, email and automation.
HCL Digital Experience is the former IBM WebSphere Portal, now sold as a session-priced subscription that runs on your own Kubernetes, on premises or in HCL's managed cloud.
Contentful is the most established API-first headless CMS for enterprises that deliver structured content to many channels and already have a front-end engineering team.
Optimizely SaaS CMS is a fully managed headless CMS with two anchors: Visual Builder, which lets marketers assemble pages by drag and drop on a Next.js or Astro front end, and Optimizely Graph, a GraphQL delivery layer with full-text and semantic search included.
Sanity is the most developer-centric headless content platform we score.
Storyblok is a cloud-only headless CMS built around a visual editor that lets marketers click, drag and compose pages on a live preview of their real site.
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 whose standout feature is Content Federation: remote commerce, PIM or search APIs are stitched into the same query as the content model.
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.
Agility CMS is a Toronto-based hosted headless CMS whose defining trait is built-in page, sitemap and URL management on top of an API-first core.
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 application that any JavaScript team can install, model content in visually, and expose through generated REST and GraphQL APIs within an hour.
Prismic is a cloud headless CMS built around a visual Page Builder, where developers define reusable page sections called slices and marketers assemble pages from them.
HubSpot Content Hub is a fully hosted CMS built on HubSpot's CRM, aimed at marketing teams that want to run their own website.
Webflow is the benchmark for marketer-driven visual websites: the Designer gives full layout control, Webflow renders and hosts every site on Cloudflare, and a new site can be live within an hour with no infrastructure to run.
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 Drupal Association's packaged, marketer-focused build of Drupal 11.
WordPress VIP is Automattic's fully managed enterprise WordPress platform, built for high-traffic publishers and the only WordPress offering with FedRAMP Moderate authorization.
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 fully managed SaaS platform built around the Matrix CMS, the Funnelback enterprise search engine and a native customer data platform, and it is most at home running hundreds of government and university sites from one installation.
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.
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 run by the non-profit Ghost Foundation, sold as managed Ghost(Pro) hosting from $15 a month or self-hosted for free under the MIT license.
Joomla is a free, GPL-licensed PHP CMS that ships multilingual publishing, nested categories and tags, a granular access control system, editorial workflows and scheduled publishing in the core download, with no paid tiers and no vendor contract.
