Browse and compare 43 digital experience and content management platforms, independently scored across 187 criteria — from developer experience and content authoring to total cost of ownership, AI capabilities, and compliance.
43 platforms
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) remains the broadest enterprise digital experience platform we score, and the most expensive and complex to build on.
SitecoreAI is Sitecore's cloud-only successor to XM Cloud.
Optimizely PaaS DXP (CMS 13) is a top-tier traditional DXP for enterprise .NET teams.
Optimizely SaaS CMS is a fully managed, headless-first CMS built around Visual Builder for editors and Optimizely Graph (a GraphQL delivery layer) for developers, and it ships new capability every week or two.
Acquia is the enterprise home of Drupal: managed hosting, Site Factory for fleets of hundreds of sites, an enterprise DAM, and one of the strongest compliance portfolios in this market (FedRAMP Moderate, HIPAA with a BAA, PCI DSS Level 1, SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001).
Uniform is a composable platform that sits on top of other content and commerce systems and assembles them into finished experiences.
Bloomreach is a commerce-experience suite with a CMS attached, not a content platform that has grown commerce features.
Brightspot is an enterprise Java CMS built for high-volume publishing, with strong editorial workflows, native multi-site management and one of the most complete governed AI toolsets among the platforms we score.
Jahia is a traditional digital experience platform built on Java, and its strongest suits are European digital sovereignty, multilingual authoring at the field level, and centrally governed delivery across many sites and brands.
Magnolia is a Swiss, Java-based digital experience platform that pairs a drag-and-drop page editor with REST and GraphQL delivery, so marketers edit in context while developers build the frontend in React, Angular, Vue, Next.js or Nuxt.
Xperience by Kentico is a mid-market digital experience platform built on .NET that can serve pages itself or deliver content headlessly.
dotCMS is a Java content platform that runs many sites from one install and serves them through a visual editor or through REST and GraphQL APIs.
Liferay is an enterprise traditional DXP whose portal heritage gives it best-in-class access control, workflow, multi-site and intranet capabilities.
Sitecore XP is a deeply capable but aging enterprise digital experience platform (DXP) built on .NET.
Salesforce Experience Cloud is a portal and community platform that sits directly on top of Salesforce CRM data.
Kentico Xperience 13 is a mature, feature-complete digital experience platform built on .NET, with real strengths in workflow and versioning, native commerce, multi-site management and an all-in-one marketing suite.
HCL Digital Experience is an enterprise platform with portal roots whose strongest assets are proven authentication, fine-grained access control, and regulatory readiness.
Contentstack is an enterprise headless CMS that has spent 2026 turning itself into an AI-operated content platform.
Contentful is the enterprise reference headless CMS.
Sanity is the most developer-centric of the headless content platforms we score.
Storyblok is a cloud-only headless CMS whose visual editor lets marketers click, drag and compose pages on a live preview of the real site, and it has spent 2026 adding the enterprise layer around it: Environments, Taxonomies, Multi-Space Content Distribution, OAuth 2.0 Scoped Grants, schema-as-code and in-app Agents.
Kontent.ai is a hosted headless CMS, headquartered in the Czech Republic, that stands out for compliance, AI agents and localization.
Hygraph is a GraphQL-native headless CMS from Berlin that is strongest as a content and data layer for developer-led teams.
DatoCMS is a polished, developer-friendly headless CMS with best-in-class media handling, excellent structured content and strong localization across 400+ locales.
Directus is a headless CMS that sits on top of your own SQL database, with very fine-grained permissions, matching REST and GraphQL APIs, strong support for AI agents, and very low vendor lock-in.
Cosmic is an AI-native headless CMS that pairs a simple, developer-friendly content API with one of the most complete sets of AI agent tools in the category.
Payload CMS is an open-source headless CMS built on TypeScript and Next.js, with a strong developer experience and a free MIT license that holds back no features.
Agility CMS is a Toronto-based hosted headless CMS whose distinguishing trait is built-in page, sitemap and URL management.
Prismic is a developer-friendly headless CMS that is at its best for marketing websites built with Next.js, Nuxt or SvelteKit.
Strapi is the most widely adopted open-source headless CMS, set apart by best-in-class extensibility, almost no vendor lock-in and built-in support for AI agents.
Drupal CMS is the Drupal Association's packaged, marketer-focused build of Drupal 11.
Drupal is a mature, open-source traditional CMS whose greatest strengths are content modeling, multilingual and localization tooling, fine-grained access control, and transparent costs with no licensing lock-in.
Webflow is the benchmark for visual site building led by designers and marketers.
WordPress VIP is the enterprise managed version of the world's most widely used CMS, combining an unmatched talent supply and ecosystem with hosting authorized for US federal use (FedRAMP), global edge caching and the deepest extensibility of any traditional CMS.
Progress Sitefinity is a mature traditional CMS on the ASP.NET Core and .NET stack that can also deliver content headlessly, and it is strongest in integrated marketing.
Squiz DXP is a traditional CMS and digital experience suite focused on a few sectors, with standout enterprise search, a genuine drag-and-drop page builder and built-in personalization.
HubSpot Content Hub is a fully managed SaaS CMS built on HubSpot's own CRM, and that foundation gives it some of the strongest marketing tooling of any platform we score.
Self-hosted WordPress is the most flexible, lowest-cost and most widely supported CMS foundation on the market.
Craft CMS is a developer-first traditional CMS with exceptional content modeling, one of the most mature extension models in its tier, and best-in-class documentation and local development.
Umbraco is a free, open-source (MIT-licensed) CMS built on .NET that combines low cost and low lock-in with a mature extension model and a welcoming community.
Concrete CMS is a niche but mature open-source PHP CMS whose lasting differentiator is best-in-class drag-and-drop editing directly on the page, paired with fine-grained permissions and credible compliance for its managed hosting.
Ghost is a focused, MIT-licensed publishing and membership platform that does newsletters, paid subscriptions, SEO and native analytics very well, with fully published pricing and one of the simplest builds of any platform we score.
Joomla is a free, self-hosted PHP CMS licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
