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Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) vs Adobe Experience Manager comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Acquia Digital Experience P...
Ranking in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Adobe Experience Manager
Ranking in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (3rd), Web Content Management (1st), Enterprise Social Software (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) category, the mindshare of Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is 2.8%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Adobe Experience Manager is 11.7%, down from 18.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Adobe Experience Manager11.7%
Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP)2.8%
Other85.5%
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
 

Featured Reviews

Talish Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Drupal Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Marketers have gained low‑code control and now build personalized journeys that boost conversions
One of the improvements needed for Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) involves platform sizing and pricing transparency, which is the most consistent complaint I have seen across various clients. The way Acquia sizes its platform for customers is described as ambiguous and often results in penalties after doing business. Users also note that overall cost can be high and limits accessibility for smaller businesses. Additionally, the Site Factory provisioning environment takes a lot of time, and often more environments are needed than what is available by default, requiring you to go through support and sales processes. For teams handling CI/CD pipelines and needing fast environment spin-ups, this lag is a real bottleneck. Support gaps exist since support follows standard SLAs, and sometimes there are different difficulties when dealing with critical issues due to the lack of a 24/7 available team.
Hilax Chamberlain - PeerSpot reviewer
Digital Marketing Manager at Ford Motor Company
Centralized content management has unified our digital channels and delivers consistent experiences
Adobe Experience Manager offers enterprise-level digital assets management and very robust customization, brand value consistency, and omnichannel delivery. It saves development and maintenance time. The digital asset management and omnichannel delivery features have benefited my team by managing our digital assets, ensuring brand consistency, and enabling us to deliver customized content easily to our clients. Organizing and obtaining information from results is beneficial. Strengthening our online experience as a brand is valuable. Easy integration with other Adobe services improves productivity and provides a smooth experience. Adobe Experience Manager has positively impacted my organization by enabling component and page reuse, which reduces application size. It saves manual effort for maintaining all applications, improves traffic, and ensures consistency across all our applications. It provides better security, scalability, and makes our applications more robust.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) has positively impacted my organization primarily through its ease of use, making it easier to generate content and pages, especially from a marketing perspective, so entry-level people can access it and utilize it as well as advanced users, appealing to a range of people."
"Since moving to Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP), we have saved approximately three times the amount of time in deployment and site creation processes."
"After migrating to DXP, the results were dramatic, including a 70-plus percent increase in conversion rate and a 30-plus percent increase in online booking revenue."
"Building pages using Site Studio components was very easy, and using Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) for our website and project was really great."
"The best feature of Acquia is its deployment capabilities and the DX product, which recently released a new framework called DX Acquia."
"Based on my experience with their services, Acquia Cloud that we have been using, or Acquia hosting, is next to a native solution for Drupal projects, making it probably one of the best hosting solutions available, even though it has its flaws and we eventually had to shift to another one."
"One of the platform's key strengths is its ability to unify content management, personalization, and customer data into a single experience layer, enabling my team to build highly tailored digital journeys across multiple channels for enterprise websites like the one I work for, as well as e-commerce integrations and customer portals."
"Every user is almost like a mini administrator, which spoke well to how they were connected globally."
"It helps us with analytics, application design for specific platforms, and enables us to easily create applications for iOS and Android."
"The Asset module has received a lot of focus and is currently one of the best solutions for Digital Asset Management out there."
"Adobe Experience Manager is pretty stable."
"Being able to connect everything to one universal system was a game changer for us, giving us an overall better digital experience."
"I think DAM (Digital Asset Management) is most valuable to me; the data is increasing, and in order to manage millions of assets which a large enterprise has, it provides lots of capabilities (searching, reporting, managing, workflows for automation, etc.)."
"I've used several CMS tools, but Adobe Experience Manager is feature-rich, especially for web security and content management. It's more efficient to manage content on Adobe Experience Manager, and you can do a lot with it, such as updating content at any time, and on any platform, even from mobile or tablet. Adobe Experience Manager is still getting updated daily, and it's the best CMS tool in the market for me. I like that you can manage assets in Adobe Experience Manager. I also like that the solution has an analytics dashboard that shows you where the traffic comes from, how many clicks come from a specific location, the number of clicks and impressions, etc. Adobe Experience Manager can be accessed by other teams, for example, the digital media department of my company, so the solution can be used and updated per each team's requirement. Adobe Experience Manager is more than just a web developer tool, as it also allows visibility tracking and has other uses. I also like that the GUI for Adobe Experience Manager is straightforward and catchy. It has separate folders and icons, so using Adobe Experience Manager isn't tough. The solution is straightforward to use and handle."
"It is easy to learn. You don't need to be an advanced Java developer."
"I like the profiling and segmentation."
 

Cons

"We faced loading issues, performance issues, and some kind of optimization issues on some pages."
"Once the site was originally developed, it needed to be transferred onto Acquia, which was quite a task."
"In Site Factory, the provisioning of environments can take time."
"One of the improvements needed for Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) involves platform sizing and pricing transparency, which is the most consistent complaint I have seen across various clients."
"The main improvement needed for Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is related to its complexity, as it is not that lightweight with a surfeit of features, requiring users to read up on all the myriad of features, and while it is a sophisticated enterprise product that necessitates that complexity, the learning curve can be a bit steep for less experienced users needing quick task completion."
"The support usually worked quite well, but the problem that led us to shift to another platform was also in support, as the quality of service degraded at some point, which became a bit of a problem."
"Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) could be improved by allowing more customization options, as it currently has limitations with hooks in its core Drupal system that prevent us from making custom modules easily."
"One area where Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) can be improved is the cost structure, as it's quite an expensive solution for what it is."
"With the default template design, it is difficult to manage the different resolutions of images."
"The licensing model is opaque, and technical support could be improved, especially for smaller companies."
"In comparison to other CMS products, Adobe Experience Manager is missing some capabilities such as proper versioning or a better versioning system and backend connectivity. If something is deleted in AEM, the user cannot recover it. You have to call technical support, and they will need to recover the whole instance. So, it's really difficult. For example, if you delete a page, you cannot recover it. There should be an option to recover it. In AEM, you have to go to the previous state of the instance itself or the virtual machine, and you have to restore everything, which is not good."
"A little bit of background knowledge of coding and website structure is required."
"One common challenge that I have heard of is that Adobe Experience Manager can feel complex and resource-intensive during implementation, especially for organizations without strong technical or Adobe ecosystem expertise."
"The latest trend is to render everything in the client-side framework. For example, SPA or single page application. This is a feature that needs improvement. The cloud deployment pipeline needs to be improved as well."
"Even more out of box components, UI designs."
"I haven't seen any areas for improvement in Adobe Experience Manager as it's a full-fledged CMS tool, and Adobe is already working on enhancements for the solution. Adobe is working to make Adobe Experience Manager more valuable and easier to use for any user, even non-technical ones, through multiple components and templates. Day by day, Adobe provides the latest update to Adobe Experience Manager, and if my team needs any particular change, it just needs to be reported to the Adobe team. As Adobe Experience Manager has a broad scope and a lot of use cases and features, it's a solution that requires some time and effort from you in terms of learning, especially if you're implementing it for different clients, which could be an area for improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Users have to pay a yearly licensing fee to use the solution, which is highly-priced."
"There's a free trial for one month for Adobe Experience Manager, which you can use for learning purposes, then, after the trial period, you'll need to purchase the license. Adobe offers a few plans for Adobe Experience Manager, but I'm unaware of how much my company is paying."
"It's a costly solution. I would rate the price at two out of five on a scale from one to five, where one is the most expensive and five is the most competitive."
"It's really costly."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Energy/Utilities Company
17%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise24
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP)?
Regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing, since we are using an evaluation rather than full versions, the pricing is obviously quite high, so we are not making that commitment because of the pr...
What needs improvement with Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP)?
Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) can be improved in several ways. I believe there is still meaningful room for improvement in several areas. One area where I believe improvement is possible...
What is your primary use case for Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP)?
I have been using Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) for approximately six to seven years in my institute and across a few collaborative research and digital transformation initiatives. My ma...
What needs improvement with Adobe Experience Manager?
One common challenge that I have heard of is that Adobe Experience Manager can feel complex and resource-intensive during implementation, especially for organizations without strong technical or Ad...
What is your primary use case for Adobe Experience Manager?
I personally have not used Adobe Experience Manager, but I have observed a retail client that uses Adobe Experience Manager to manage their personalized website content, and while they use MoEngage...
What advice do you have for others considering Adobe Experience Manager?
Adobe Experience Manager should be evaluated as a long-term digital experience platform rather than just a CMS. It delivers the most value for organizations that need personalization, multi-channel...
 

Also Known As

No data available
Adobe Day CQ5, Ektron Social Marketing, Episerver Content Cloud, Adobe CQ5
 

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Sample Customers

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