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Adobe Experience Manager vs Wix comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Adobe Experience Manager
Ranking in Web Content Management
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (3rd), Enterprise Social Software (4th), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (1st)
Wix
Ranking in Web Content Management
8th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Web Hosting Services (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Adobe Experience Manager is 8.5%, down from 10.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Wix is 1.6%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Adobe Experience Manager8.5%
Wix1.6%
Other89.9%
Web Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Gopal Parmar - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Has supported responsive design efficiently but offers limited customization options
The editor is effective, especially when fixing resolutions for desktop, mobile, and tablet. The interface is not complicated. We have its own editor to design websites. We don't need to work separately for tablet and mobile since we can set and organize screen resolutions there. Basic features can be grasped in a couple of hours because it's CMS-based with all tools readily available. For simple designing, HTML coding isn't necessary as it uses drag and drop features. For example, when adding images, we can select the image tool and insert it. For custom integrations such as Klaviyo, we can simply insert the embed code tool and insert our code.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is easy to learn. You don't need to be an advanced Java developer."
"Brand management, Digital Transformation of organization and Most dynamic site."
"A certain client has definitely seen approximately fifteen to twenty percent improvement in their web engagement and conversions on the personalized pages, especially when those experiences were connected and retargeted with other engagement campaigns in MoEngage."
"Adobe Experience Manager is a content management system, and we use it to create and manage a website."
"I'm quite happy with the platform."
"The cost can be high, but for large websites with a lot of dynamic data like e-commerce, or for clients looking for user-data based campaigning, the solution can be very efficient in the long-term."
"Ease of use for content authors and tight integration with Adobe Marketing Cloud Products like Target, Analytics, Campaign; a complete solution for organizational digital marketing needs."
"It is a first-in-class product."
"The biggest advantages are that it is inexpensive and very easy to use, which means I can spend less time building the website and more time working."
"I found everything okay in Wix, and it's easy to create a website."
"The return on investment with Wix is excellent because hosting a website costs around 4,000 to 5,000 Indian Rupees, equivalent to $50 a year, I have access to all tools and functionalities, and I can generate as much sales as I want through Wix."
"Wix has actually reduced my time in developing or delivering a website to the client, so I can have more clients in the pipeline."
"Basic features can be grasped in a couple of hours because it's CMS-based with all tools readily available."
"I like the solution's responsiveness, usability, and user interface."
 

Cons

"The UI for handling complex logic, especially in forms, could be more intuitive, and debugging issues is not always straightforward and could be simplified."
"Adobe Experience Manager's pricing could be improved."
"Tool-wise, the Adobe Experience Manager support team is not very responsive when the user face issues in AEM as a Cloud Service."
"AEM, when setup using Mongo, rapidly gains size; hence it consumes a lot of storage space in a very short period of time."
"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."
"The programming model could be improved, it's a monolithic solution and that's what we don't like."
"Many people complain about the price as it's one of the most expensive tools."
"The solution's pricing and stability could be improved."
"The Wix editor can sometimes be glitched or buggy and requires a significant amount of memory on my computer."
"When it comes to drag and drop, it sometimes creates problems when the size is not compatible."
"Wix has drawbacks regarding website optimization and speed."
"There are a few bugs where what it says it will show on the phone versus the laptop does not always match."
"Wix is quite slow. When I use Wix, it's a bit slower than Shopify."
"The solution’s scalability can be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's really costly."
"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."
"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."
"Wix is an affordable solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Construction Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise23
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise1
 

Questions from the Community

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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Wix?
Pricing is subscription-based and reasonable for small to medium projects. It is cost-effective compared to building, managing, and maintaining custom infrastructure.
What needs improvement with Wix?
Wix can be improved by providing more flexibility for advanced developers, especially in terms of backend logic and scalability. Vendor lock-in is a concern and exporting or migrating projects out ...
What is your primary use case for Wix?
My main use case for Wix is to quickly build and deploy websites without worrying about infrastructure hosting and front-end setup. It is especially useful for MVPs, landing pages, and small-scale ...
 

Also Known As

Adobe Day CQ5, Ektron Social Marketing, Episerver Content Cloud, Adobe CQ5
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