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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Contentful

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AContentful 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.

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    Magnolia

    Score8.1 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Founded in Switzerland in 1997, Magnolia is a CMS used to build composable digital experiences. Magnolia helps create fully integrated customer experiences and speeds up digital delivery of content. Magnolia boasts 480 enterprise customers, thousands of Community Edition deployments, and more than 200 certified Magnolia Partners around the world. They further state that their enterprise customers include Sanofi, Generali, the Atlassian, The New York Times, Harley Davidson, and Union…

    $3,500

    per month

    Pricing
    ContentfulMagnolia
    Editions & Modules
    Lite
    $300
    per month
    Community
    Free
    Enterprise
    Custom
    DX Core
    $3500
    per month
    DX Cloud
    $6000
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ContentfulMagnolia
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    ContentfulMagnolia
    Considered Both Products
    Contentful
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    Magnolia
    Chose Magnolia
    We were looking at Contentful and Magnolia. But Magnolia price-wise as well and implementation wise was easier when we migrated to AWS.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia is not as costly as other enterprise grade platforms and is easier to deploy, more reliable and less resource hungry. It's often also easier to use and certainly easier to use than it's Open Source counterparts. It also manages content in a much more structured manner …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Similar to how one might choose a specific programming language to solve a specific problem, Magnolia has its place among the rest, depending on the use case. While it does not have the most pleasant user experience compared to others, its customization options are streets …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia has an automatic, and speedy social media publication extension, which spread content to all social sites. Also, the insertion of extensions and plugins is more effective when on Magnolia against the opponents. Magnolia admits and adopts diversity, hence, it is a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia is competitively priced while offering better features and a great UI.
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia was the product of choice from the wider business group when it was implemented a number of years ago. In general, it stacks up fairly well against the other products, although there could be a slightly easier interface when creating pages. Workflows are one area which …
    Incentivized
    Chose Magnolia
    Magnolia is the most flexible, with the best ease of use in all cases. It just has the best of both worlds. It is significantly more than just a CMS. And you have a good foundation for building up your platform without losing possibilities to change parts in the future.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    ContentfulMagnolia
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Contentful and Magnolia
    Feature
    Contentful
    7.3
    8 Ratings
    Magnolia
    8.1
    70 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions7.38 Ratings8.170 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Contentful and Magnolia
    Feature
    Contentful
    8.0
    9 Ratings
    Magnolia
    8.1
    69 Ratings
    API8.38 Ratings8.562 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language7.76 Ratings7.762 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Contentful and Magnolia
    Feature
    Contentful
    7.7
    10 Ratings
    Magnolia
    8.0
    75 Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor7.34 Ratings8.566 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.56 Ratings8.466 Ratings
    Admin section8.08 Ratings8.071 Ratings
    Page templates7.64 Ratings8.973 Ratings
    Library of website themes7.52 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.75 Ratings8.564 Ratings
    Publishing workflow8.09 Ratings7.574 Ratings
    Form generator7.01 Ratings6.959 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Contentful and Magnolia
    Feature
    Contentful
    8.0
    9 Ratings
    Magnolia
    7.5
    70 Ratings
    Content taxonomy8.08 Ratings7.664 Ratings
    SEO support7.07 Ratings7.264 Ratings
    Bulk management7.75 Ratings7.658 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions8.56 Ratings7.963 Ratings
    Community / comment management9.01 Ratings6.952 Ratings
    User Ratings
    ContentfulMagnolia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (10 ratings)
    8.1
    (79 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (69 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (68 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)