Brightspot vs. Contentful

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Brightspot
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Brightspot (formerly Perfect Sense) is a content management system for businesses looking to distinguish themselves via digital transformation. The platform helps editors and developers to utilize publishing processes, customized workstreams and collaboration features. This helps users to deliver content to audiences without compromise.N/A
Contentful
Score 6.1 out of 10
N/A
Contentful is a cloud based CMS solution that provides the ability to manage content across multiple platforms.The editing interface allows for managing content interactively and provides developers the ability to deliver the content with the programming language and template framework of their choice.
$300
per month
Pricing
BrightspotContentful
Editions & Modules
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$300
per month
Community
Free
Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BrightspotContentful
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
BrightspotContentful
Considered Both Products
Brightspot
Chose Brightspot
Best example of ease of use and future flexibility
Contentful
Chose Contentful
Easy to use and much more organized as a single platform versus multi. The layout is clean and easy to read and we don’t have to worry about certain users safe guarding data or content then losing it when they leave the company. It’s a one stop shop for imagery.
Chose Contentful
Contentful was affordable and much simpler than the Java based systems and preferred over a PHP solution
Chose Contentful
In the past we've used WordPress to manage documentation content. Wordpress was more flexible than Contentful but also prone to inconsistencies and we ended having a lot of hacks to accomplish various Wordpress tricks. With Contentful there's less ambiguity so content producers …
Chose Contentful
Contentful offers a great deal of features for a relatively low price. This is what ended up persuading us to purchase it. We also gathered that this was one of the more well-rated products out there, which was encouraging. It definitely stacks up well against its competitors.
Chose Contentful
Very similar to WordPress, but has more organizational properties than square space.
Chose Contentful
For custom solutions, Contentful blows every other CMS I've used out of the water. Unlike WordPress, there's no clutter to wade through, and you can simply build the infrastructure you need. It's more secure by far, and works seamlessly with modern frontend technologies, like …
Chose Contentful
Contentful was the most user-friendly platform that everyone in our company could understand. It doesn't have the integrations that Wordpress does, but it was easier for everyone in our organization to use. We've also seen good ranking and traffic from the pages created in …
Chose Contentful
Contentful is easy and fast and cheap. I went from zero experience to loading data out of my contentful space in about an hour or more. The cost is very reasonable and compared to options like CloudCMS are a fraction of the cost. The benefit is that with a lower cost entry …
Features
BrightspotContentful
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Brightspot
8.6
Ratings
6% above category average
Contentful
7.3
Ratings
10% below category average
Role-based user permissions8.60 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Brightspot
8.0
Ratings
5% above category average
Contentful
8.0
Ratings
5% above category average
API8.20 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language7.70 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Brightspot
7.7
Ratings
0% below category average
Contentful
7.7
Ratings
0% below category average
WYSIWYG editor8.20 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness7.70 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Admin section8.20 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Page templates8.20 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Library of website themes5.90 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design7.70 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Publishing workflow8.20 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Brightspot
7.9
Ratings
7% above category average
Contentful
8.0
Ratings
8% above category average
Content taxonomy8.20 Ratings8.00 Ratings
SEO support7.30 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Bulk management7.30 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.60 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Community / comment management8.20 Ratings9.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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User Testimonials
BrightspotContentful
Likelihood to Recommend
Suited for populating multi-site assets. It would be less appropriate for replacing a journal publishing system.
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Coming from WordPress, Contentful feels like content management as it should be. There's no clutter to get rid of, you can simply start building from scratch, and the end product is perfectly tailored to your or your clients needs.
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Pros
  • Ease of use to users
  • Intuitive display
  • High traffic loads
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  • Contentful provides organized, flexible data models with support for a variety of data types and content editors (e.g. WYSIWYGs, form fields, raw text areas).
  • Contentful has great built-in versioning features with history and draft states so it's easy to make updates and revert when needed.
  • Contentful has an intuitive user interface and good support for multiple spaces (which can be helpful for companies that need separate projects for dev/staging/production).
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Cons
  • Personalization features (dependent on integration with a CDP)
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  • Preview of changes prior to publishing
  • The ability to use a spell check plug-in when working on content (it doesn't work well with Grammarly)
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Alternatives Considered
Better feature set at a better price
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Contentful was affordable and much simpler than the Java based systems and preferred over a PHP solution
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Return on Investment
  • All positive, allowing the newsroom to react to events without engineering help
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  • There was no negative impact as such.
  • Positive impact is increase in sales.
  • More work is delivered due to reusability and other features within a time and less manual effort.
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ScreenShots

Brightspot Screenshots

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Contentful Screenshots

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