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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 September 2026, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Adobe Experience Manager is 8.4%, down from 10.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Wix is 1.6%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Adobe Experience Manager8.4%
Wix1.6%
Other90.0%
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.
James Dunne-Bennett - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Delivery Manager at Siemens Industry
Has saved time during website building and helps maintain a professional look
The mobile view needs to be fixed when reviewing on the desktop to show what it actually displays on the phone. There were a couple of small bugs which I think they fixed. Sometimes when dragging and dropping things into place, they would snap into place, and then after saving and checking the live page, it would not quite match what was showing in the website builder. I would have to go back in and move it to the right and then snap it back for it to work. Sometimes doing exactly the same thing when building requires one or two attempts to get it to reflect what you want to see on the live page.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's a complete package. You don't need to look elsewhere for digital marketing."
"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 one of the best enterprise-level content management and digital experience platforms available."
"It is easy to learn. You don't need to be an advanced Java developer."
"I've used several CMS tools, but Adobe Experience Manager is feature-rich, especially for web security and content management."
"If you're looking for a .NET based CMS, do yourself a favor and go with an open source CMS."
"I believe that the primary feature of the product is the ability and extent to which it allows authors to modify, build and operate their website, page components, etc. that otherwise would require a lot more of developer work."
"The most valuable features of Adobe Experience Manager include its capability to manage content and create reusable fragments."
"Basic features can be grasped in a couple of hours because it's CMS-based with all tools readily available."
"Wix has actually reduced my time in developing or delivering a website to the client, so I can have more clients in the pipeline."
"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."
"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."
"I found everything okay in Wix, and it's easy to create a website."
"I like the solution's responsiveness, usability, and user interface."
 

Cons

"Adobe's technical support is so-so."
"The tech support from Adobe is slow to respond and takes a lot of time to fix product related bugs."
"This review attempts to sum up the miserable experience of using Ektron from a developer's perspective, a server administrator's perspective, and the actual end content editor's perspective."
"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."
"With the default template design, it is difficult to manage the different resolutions of images."
"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."
"There is a feature missing where if content is created on the UAT environment and needs to be transferred or synced to the production environment, there is no direct way of doing the sync."
"Because of the improvement needed with the client-side framework and because page loading takes time, I rate Adobe Experience Manager at seven out of ten."
"The solution’s scalability can be improved."
"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."
"When it comes to drag and drop, it sometimes creates problems when the size is not compatible."
"The Wix editor can sometimes be glitched or buggy and requires a significant amount of memory on my computer."
"Wix is quite slow. When I use Wix, it's a bit slower than Shopify."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

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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