Contentful vs. Umbraco CMS

Contentful

Umbraco CMS

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
Umbraco CMS	Score 6.7 out of 10	N/A	Umbraco is an open-source .NET Core CMS with over 700,000 active installs worldwide and with more than 200,000 active community members. It was first released on February 16th, 2005, and is still to this day an open-source project backed by a commercial company. To ensure Umbraco is always running the latest technology, the company has aligned with Microsoft's .NET release schedule to always have the Umbraco CMS…	$0

Pricing

Contentful

Umbraco CMS

Editions & Modules

Lite: $300
per month
Community: Free
Enterprise: Custom

Umbraco Free: $0
Umbraco Starter: $53
per month
Umbraco Standard: $320
per month
Umbraco Professional: $860
per month
Umbraco Cloud Enterprise: Custom Pricing
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Contentful	Umbraco CMS
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

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The Umbraco CMS and all of its core features are the same across all plans.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Contentful	Umbraco CMS
Considered Both Products	Contentful Verified User Anonymous 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Contentful Didn't use other products Incentivized Helpful? Jennifer Garcia Web Marketing Manager Chose Contentful Contentful was affordable and much simpler than the Java based systems and preferred over a PHP solution Incentivized Helpful? EM Eric Mason Lead Developer 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Richardson SEO Specialist 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. Incentivized Helpful? Nathaly Sierra Marketing Coordinator for FirstService Realty NYC Chose Contentful Very similar to WordPress, but has more organizational properties than square space. Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Folts Digital Strategist 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Darian Rawson Senior Designer 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 … Incentivized Helpful?	Umbraco CMS Verified User Anonymous Chose Umbraco CMS We preferred Umbraco because it is built with .NET, and most of our team members have proficiency in .NET. Umbraco is open-source so it was free, we could deploy it anywhere - on-premise or cloud. Umbraco had all features which we needed - SEO support, multi-lingual support, … Incentivized Helpful? Lori Jerome Digital Content Manager Chose Umbraco CMS Someone else selected before I came on board but I was open-minded and willing to give it a try. Incentivized Helpful? Janus Kamp Hansen Developer Chose Umbraco CMS Episerver CMS and Sitecore Web Content Management Incentivized Helpful? JE Jerker Edenborg System Developer Chose Umbraco CMS The performance of Umbraco is as good as Episerver. The back office in Umbraco is cleaner and more intuitive than Episerver. Sitecore is a good CMS for large projects, but the learning curve for developers and editors is steep. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Umbraco CMS Umbraco's templating is far superior than WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, but it's update process is WAY behind those platforms. The release schedule of Umbraco is way to often and most releases are to fix something missed in the previous release and not an improvement or new … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Umbraco CMS The learning curve to develop a web application is very short. The time to market is then insignificant. Umbraco is free and open source. Incentivized Helpful? Jakub Wilk President & Co-Founder Chose Umbraco CMS We chose Umbraco because of their technology, and it was better than our previous CMS, Orchard, which was too complicated even for programmers. Orchard was very good but to develop something it required a really strong knowledge of this framework. In Umbraco it seems to be … Incentivized Helpful? Debbie Marshall Operations Manager Chose Umbraco CMS We previously used Wordpress, however this was not easy to use, it was a complicated system and was limited in what we could achieve, there was a big outlay in buying bolts on and ensuring the system was safe. We found we where spammed loads, we tried to make it work however … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Kelly Data Manager Chose Umbraco CMS Both are comparable. We selected Umbraco CMS because it used .NET instead of PHP. I would recommend choosing the CMS that your staff and technical people will be the most comfortable with. Incentivized Helpful? Alex Lada Tech Director Chose Umbraco CMS Umbraco provides the best bang-for-the-buck CMS option on a .NET platform for those that cannot afford Sitecore. It is much friendlier to use than Ektron, is free to use, has commercial grade plugins that are not overly expensive, and provides the functionality that most … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Hardesty Founder Chose Umbraco CMS Umbraco vs WordPress Umbraco has more flexibility and customization options, but less features, reliability/stability, and community support. WordPress offers less customization for data and content, but it is immensely more stable, has better features /plugins, and includes an … Incentivized Helpful? Filip Witkowski Web Developer Chose Umbraco CMS There is not really an alternative when it comes to CMS based on ASP.Net (MVC4 with Razor). There are a few frameworks, like Booststrap; however framework is not content management system. I will compare it to Drupal, because the second one is well known. Against Drupal, … Helpful?

Features

Contentful

Umbraco CMS

Security

Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
	Contentful 7.3 Ratings 10% below category average	Umbraco CMS 9.0 Ratings 11% above category average
Role-based user permissions	7.30 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

Platform & Infrastructure

Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
	Contentful 8.0 Ratings 5% above category average	Umbraco CMS 8.5 Ratings 11% above category average
API	8.30 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language	7.70 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

Web Content Creation

Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
	Contentful 7.7 Ratings 0% below category average	Umbraco CMS 8.0 Ratings 4% above category average
WYSIWYG editor	7.30 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness	8.50 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Admin section	8.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Page templates	7.60 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Library of website themes	7.50 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design	7.70 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Publishing workflow	8.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Form generator	7.00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings

Web Content Management

Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
	Contentful 8.0 Ratings 8% above category average	Umbraco CMS 7.2 Ratings 2% below category average
Content taxonomy	8.00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
SEO support	7.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Bulk management	7.70 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions	8.50 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Community / comment management	9.00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Contentful	Umbraco CMS
Likelihood to Recommend	8.3 (0 ratings)	6.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	3.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	2.0 (0 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	3.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	4.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Contentful	Umbraco CMS
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Andrew Folts Digital Strategist Read full review	Umbraco is well suited for websites that are looking to do a wide range of activities that require complex technoligies. An example of this is a company with several different products or services. Umbraco would be overkill for simple sites that are mostly static. It is also difficult to find developers who have Umbraco experience, as it's market share is not all that high Incentivized Jason Kelly Data Manager Read full review
Pros	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). Incentivized EM Eric Mason Lead Developer Read full review	Quick to learn. For most if cases, developer needs to know Razor coding. Doesn't require back-end programming. Has build in users management (developers, content managers) and members management consoles (users of the site). Clear admin tool (especially in version 7) Fast. Creating code from scratch, so it is easier to create clean code. Filip Witkowski Web Developer Read full review
Cons	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) Incentivized Nathaly Sierra Marketing Coordinator for FirstService Realty NYC Read full review	Migration of data between servers. There are tools that you can pay for that help facilitate this, but like any CMS system, there are still some tricks to getting it to work correctly. Running as a Web Project instead of a Web Site. Umbraco does not run compiled code, but instead compiles it on the fly. I find this to cause some performance issues that would otherwise be resolved with a compiled code base. Incentivized Alex Lada Tech Director Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	Umbraco CMS effectively addresses enterprise content management needs. It's quite mature .NET based CMS, standing out as a leader among its competitors. Websites built with Umbraco are blazing fast. Extensive customization capabilities, and user-friendly content publishing interface makes it an ideal choice for businesses looking for a mature CMS solution. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	No answers on this topic	Occasionally, errors will appear in the admin that make it impossible to work without developer support. Incentivized Matthew Hardesty Founder Read full review
Performance	No answers on this topic	Working in the admin panel (adding / reviewing / editing content) is very slow. The public facing site speed is dependent on what the pages are doing and how well the code was written (whether it is optimized for speed). Incentivized Matthew Hardesty Founder Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Support for Umbraco-owned paid plugins is nonexistent. Incentivized Matthew Hardesty Founder Read full review
Online Training	No answers on this topic	Online training is often based on older versions of the platform. So, you'll have to fill in the gaps on your own. Incentivized Matthew Hardesty Founder Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	Spend the time to wireframe the content structure prior to diving in. This helps speed the process of implementation and it serves as documentation for end users. Incentivized Matthew Hardesty Founder Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Contentful was affordable and much simpler than the Java based systems and preferred over a PHP solution Incentivized Jennifer Garcia Web Marketing Manager Read full review	We previously used WordPress, however this was not easy to use, it was a complicated system and was limited in what we could achieve, there was a big outlay in buying bolts on and ensuring the system was safe. We found we where spammed loads, we tried to make it work however after a year we decided to leave WordPress behind. The company did evaluated Adobe but the dev team decided that Umbraco was the best tool to meet our own needs. Incentivized Debbie Marshall Operations Manager Read full review
Scalability	No answers on this topic	Without significant development, the product does not scale well. Incentivized Matthew Hardesty Founder Read full review
Return on Investment	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	CMS is free Support form Umbraco HQ is not expensive, can include Courier or other functionality For most cases does not need back end developer For trained Umbraco developers (Razor coding, using admin tool), developing medium site, takes a few weeks max Filip Witkowski Web Developer Read full review
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