WordPress is an open-source PHP CMS released in 2003 that powers roughly 43% of all websites, the top share of any CMS. Its 60,000+ plugins and 12,000+ themes make it the common foundation for blogs, business sites, and ecommerce.
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Contentful is a headless CMS platform founded in Berlin in 2013, valued at over $3 billion after its 2022 Series F round and serving brands such as Spotify and Audi. It delivers structured content to any channel including Web, App and IoT via REST/GraphQL APIs.
Ghost is an open-source headless CMS focused on publishing and membership, founded in 2013 via Kickstarter, serving over 2 million sites and known for a clean writing experience, built-in membership, and high performance.
Strapi is an open-source headless CMS founded in Paris, France in 2015, leading its category with 65,000+ GitHub stars. Its visual content type builder auto-generates REST/GraphQL APIs with self-hosting and Strapi Cloud options.
WP Engine is an enterprise-grade WordPress hosting platform founded in Austin, Texas in 2010, serving brands and agencies with Everest caching, a global CDN, StudioPress themes, and 24/7 expert support.
Webflow is a visual website platform founded in San Francisco in 2013, valued at $4B in 2022 and serving 3.5M+ users. It combines a designer, CMS, ecommerce, and global hosting in one workflow for design and marketing teams.
WordPress.com is a managed WordPress platform launched by Automattic in 2005, with built-in Jetpack backup, security, and a global CDN and unlimited bandwidth on paid plans, letting users run sites without operating servers.
Wix is a cloud website platform founded in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2006 with 220M+ registered users across 190+ countries. Its drag-and-drop editor, 500+ templates, and AI site builder let individuals and small businesses launch sites without coding.
Drupal is an open-source PHP CMS created by Dries Buytaert in 2000, the third most popular open-source CMS worldwide, with 40k+ modules on Drupal.org, native multilingual and headless support, suited to complex enterprise websites.
Joomla is an open-source content management system released in 2005 that powers about 1.9% of websites worldwide. Native multilingual support and a strong user permission system, combined with 6000+ extensions, suit membership sites, social platforms and organizational portals.
Sanity is a Norway-based structured content platform founded in 2015 with over $200M in funding. Its single Content Lake supports 3+ distribution channels, making it strong for content platform modernization.
Sitecore is a Sweden-based enterprise digital experience platform built around 4 core modules for content management, personalization, and omnichannel orchestration.
Elementor is a WordPress page builder founded in 2016 in Tel Aviv, Israel, with 15 million+ active installs ranking first in its category, 300+ templates and 100+ widgets, plus Elementor AI design capabilities.
Carrd is a minimalist one-page site builder launched in 2015, offering a free plan for up to 3 sites and a Pro plan at $19/year with custom domains, making it a great value pick for personal pages and landing pages.
Storyblok is a visual headless CMS founded in Linz, Austria in 2017, known for component-based content and in-page live editing, with a free Starter and Growth at $90.75/month billed annually.
Strikingly is a mobile-first website builder incubated by Y Combinator in 2013, letting you publish on a free plan with paid plans from $8/month. Built-in e-commerce, blog, and forms focus on rapid one-page and lightweight sites.
Tilda is a no-code website builder founded in Moscow in 2014, offering 550+ blocks and 170+ templates for landing pages and content sites. With over 2 million users, the free plan starts at 1 site with 50 pages.
Directus is an open-source headless CMS and backend-as-a-service platform founded in Los Angeles, US in 2014 that automatically wraps any SQL database into REST/GraphQL APIs, with 25k+ GitHub stars, ideal for data-driven projects.
Wix Studio is a developer platform launched by Wix in 2023 for professional developers and agencies, offering a responsive design engine, Velo custom code, multi-site management, and team collaboration.
Site123 is a US-based website builder focused on rapid launch, with a 3-step flow, 1000+ templates, and free publishing for small teams and personal sites.
Webiny is an open-source CMS built on an AWS serverless architecture, combining a Headless CMS, Page Builder, and GraphQL API. It shines at on-demand scaling and zero server operations for teams already on cloud infrastructure.
Jimdo is a website building platform founded in Hamburg, Germany in 2007 that has served over 20 million users worldwide. Its drag-and-drop Creator editor and built-in e-commerce let individuals and small businesses launch sites without coding.
Webnode is a website builder founded in 2008 in Brno, Czech Republic, offering 20+ interface languages with built-in multilingual sites and ecommerce. Its free plan and drag-and-drop editing suit individuals and small businesses launching quickly.
Craft CMS is an open-source CMS released in 2016 by Pixel & Tonic, known for flexible content modeling, Matrix fields and native GraphQL headless mode, with single-instance multi-site and multilingual support, adopted by brands such as Netflix and Spotify.
Adobe Experience Manager is Adobe's enterprise digital experience management platform (CMS + DXP), combining Sites, Assets, and Forms, with AI personalization and DAM strengths, serving many global Fortune 500 brands.
Acquia is an enterprise Drupal cloud platform and digital experience platform (DXP) hosting sites for 4500+ organizations, including Warner Music Group and Stanford University, with multi-cloud hosting, DAM, and low-code building.
10Web is an AI-powered WordPress website builder and hosting platform focused on agentic "generate a site from a prompt" workflows, with 99.99% uptime hosting, a 90+ PageSpeed benchmark, and AI Starter from $10/month.
Duda is a website builder founded in 2009 in Palo Alto, US, built for digital agencies and SaaS platforms, offering 100+ responsive templates, multi-site management and full white-label customization with built-in AI building and SEO tools.
Elegant Themes is a WordPress theme and plugin vendor founded in 2008 in the US, whose Divi theme and visual builder have over 1 million users, with 2000+ built-in layouts and a pay-once-use-forever model ($89/year or $249 lifetime).
Moodle is the world's most widely used open-source learning management system, initiated in 2002 in Perth, Australia, with 300M+ users across 240+ countries and support for 100+ languages. GPL free and open source, it is backed by 2000+ plugins and the Workplace and MoodleCloud ecosystem - a mainstream choice for schools and corporate training.
Squarespace is a design-driven website and e-commerce platform founded in New York in 2003, known for 100+ award-winning templates, built-in commerce, and Google Domains integration.
Magento (now Adobe Commerce) is the leading enterprise-grade open-source e-commerce platform, serving over 250,000 merchants with its powerful modular architecture and B2B capabilities.
SAP Hybris (now SAP Commerce Cloud) is an enterprise omnichannel commerce platform founded in 1997 and acquired by SAP in 2013 for about $1.5 billion, serving global enterprises and Fortune 500 customers with headless commerce and deep SAP ecosystem integration.
Liferay is an enterprise digital experience platform (DXP) founded in 2004 in Diamond Bar, California, USA. Its open-source community edition is free, and one platform integrates CMS, DAM, Commerce, Search, personalization and AI. Rated 4.6/5.0 on Gartner Peer Insights with a 360+ partner network, it suits large enterprise portals and multisite scenarios.
Magnolia is an enterprise digital experience platform (DXP) founded in Basel, Switzerland in 1997. Built on the Java/Spring stack with a modular architecture and REST/GraphQL dual APIs for Headless/CaaS delivery, it includes DAM, AI and enterprise-grade security for large enterprise multi-channel content.
Payload CMS is an open-source headless CMS and application framework built on Next.js and TypeScript, code-first and self-hostable, used in production by Microsoft, ASICS, and Blue Origin, and part of Figma since 2026.