Content & Experience
CMS & Web Experience Management
The category runs from open-source CMS software you host yourself, through hosted site builders, to headless platforms that serve structured content over an API and enterprise DXPs that add personalization and multi-site governance. The buying decision is usually driven by who edits the site and how many front ends the same content has to reach.
What is cms & web experience management software?
Content management and web experience tools are where marketing pages, product content and campaign landing pages actually get authored, approved and published.
How many cms & web experience management platforms are there?
The Opsmarshal Terminal tracks 20 active cms & web experience management platforms as of 2026-08-30, within a marketing technology landscape of 15,505 products. Each entry links to the vendor’s own site and, where one was captured, its review source.
What to look for
- Pick the architecture before the vendor. Headless (Contentful, Contentstack, Sanity, Strapi) makes sense when content feeds several front ends; it costs you page preview and marketer autonomy unless the team builds those back.
- Ask who publishes. If marketers must ship pages without a developer, a visual system (Webflow, Duda, Elementor, HubSpot) beats a purer architecture that leaves them waiting on a sprint.
- Total cost is licence plus implementation plus hosting. Enterprise DXP licences are often the smaller half of a first-year budget once the systems integrator is included.
- Check the exit. Hosted builders and DXPs with proprietary templating give you no clean export, so the migration cost is a rebuild. Structured content in a headless system moves far more easily.
- Multi-language and multi-brand governance separates enterprise platforms from everything else. If you run twenty country sites, translation workflow and content inheritance matter more than the editor UI.
- For WordPress and Drupal, the real vendor decision is the host. Pantheon, WP Engine and Acquia are what turn an open-source install into something with environments, upgrades and an SLA.
Platforms in CMS & Web Experience Management
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4.4/5 9,544 reviews · G2, captured 2026-08-28
WordPress Foundation
WordPress · wordpress.org ↗
Open-source CMS that powers a large share of the public web.
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4.4/5 996 reviews · G2, captured 2026-08-28
Webflow
Webflow · webflow.com ↗
Visual site builder that outputs production HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
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No rating captured yet
Contentful
Contentful · contentful.com ↗
API-first headless CMS for delivering structured content to any front end.
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4.2/5 691 reviews · G2, captured 2026-08-28
Adobe
Adobe Experience Manager Sites · business.adobe.com ↗
Enterprise CMS and digital experience platform in the Adobe Experience Cloud.
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4.2/5 679 reviews · G2, captured 2026-08-28
Sitecore
Sitecore Digital Experience Platform · sitecore.com ↗
Composable DXP combining content management, personalization and commerce.
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4.5/5 2,012 reviews · G2, captured 2026-08-28
HubSpot
Content Hub · hubspot.com ↗
CMS bundled with HubSpot CRM, forms and marketing automation.
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4.3/5 338 reviews · G2, captured 2026-08-28
Contentstack
Contentstack · contentstack.com ↗
Headless CMS with composable integrations and workflow automation.
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4.5/5 592 reviews · G2, captured 2026-08-28
Storyblok
Storyblok · storyblok.com ↗
Headless CMS with a visual editor for in-context editing.
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4.7/5 926 reviews · G2, captured 2026-08-28
Sanity
Sanity · sanity.io ↗
Headless content platform with a customizable React-based editing studio.
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4.5/5 1,019 reviews · G2, captured 2026-08-28
Umbraco
Umbraco CMS · umbraco.com ↗
Open-source .NET content management system with commercial cloud hosting.
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4.6/5 790 reviews · G2, captured 2026-08-28
Duda
Duda · duda.co ↗
White-label website platform built for agencies and multi-site publishers.
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4.4/5 10,764 reviews · Capterra, captured 2026-08-27
Wix
Wix · wix.com ↗
Hosted website builder with CMS, ecommerce and marketing features.
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4.4/5 148 reviews · G2, captured 2026-08-28
Liferay
Liferay DXP · liferay.com ↗
Java-based digital experience platform for portals and self-service sites.
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4.4/5 725 reviews · G2, captured 2026-08-28
Pantheon
Pantheon · pantheon.io ↗
WebOps hosting and workflow platform for WordPress and Drupal.
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4.4/5 421 reviews · G2, captured 2026-08-28
Elementor
Elementor · elementor.com ↗
Visual page builder plugin for WordPress.
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No rating captured yet
Optimizely
Optimizely Content Management System · optimizely.com ↗
Enterprise CMS sold alongside experimentation and personalization products.
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No rating captured yet
Drupal Association
Drupal · drupal.org ↗
Open-source CMS for structured, permission-heavy content sites.
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No rating captured yet
Strapi
Strapi · strapi.io ↗
Open-source headless CMS that teams self-host or run on Strapi Cloud.
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No rating captured yet
Progress Software
Sitefinity · progress.com ↗
Mid-market .NET CMS with built-in personalization and analytics.
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No rating captured yet
Kentico
Xperience by Kentico · kentico.com ↗
DXP combining content management, email and digital marketing for mid-market teams.
How this list is built. Platforms are placed in this category by their
public positioning, and ordered alphabetically by company name — this is a reading order,
not a ranking, and it does not indicate quality, popularity, or evidence strength. Ratings appear only where captured
from a named review source with a capture date; a missing number means no qualifying evidence stored,
not a judgment about the vendor. Vendor and review links are unpaid and carry nofollow.
Sponsored placement, where it exists, is labeled separately and never reorders this list.
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