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Contentful vs Drupal comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Contentful
Ranking in Web Content Management
7th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Drupal
Ranking in Web Content Management
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Contentful is 1.4%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Drupal is 8.0%, up from 6.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Drupal8.0%
Contentful1.4%
Other90.6%
Web Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

Margaret  Thatcher - PeerSpot reviewer
Production Manager at Unilever
Content workflows have become faster and empower non-technical teams to update pages independently
Contentful makes it easier for non-technical teams to update content by providing organized, flexible data models with support for a variety of data types and content editors such as WYSIWYG form fields and raw text areas. It has great built-in versioning features with history and draft states, so it is easy to make updates and revert when needed. Some of the best features that Contentful offers include organized, flexible data models with support for a variety of data types and content editors such as WYSIWYG form fields and raw text. Contentful has great built-in versioning features with history and draft states, making it easy to make updates and revert when needed. Additionally, it has a very intuitive user interface and good support for multiple spaces, which can be helpful for companies that need separate projects for development, staging, and production. It is also very cost-effective and powerful, and it keeps a history of changes made to the content easily. The versioning and multiple spaces features of Contentful have helped my team manage content effectively, as we leverage Contentful's headless CMS capabilities to easily build a static website using modern technology such as GatsbyJS and ReactJS, making it an ideal solution for small businesses and startups seeking a low-maintenance approach. It is a very scalable tool. Contentful has positively impacted my organization as it is very scalable, can be used by any size of organization, and is a very cost-effective tool. It helps us save cost, especially when dealing with a lot of content compared to other alternatives. Its intuitive design facilitates seamless updates of photos and written content while providing the ability to revert changes when necessary. It has been a very good tool because I am able to spend less time maintaining websites, and my clients spend less time worrying about their site crashing or being hacked. This tool has allowed me to be much more flexible with the types of front-end technology I can use. Since it is very easy to use for all types of technical users, there is no time wasted. It enabled rapid project delivery and low-cost projects for my organization. Since adopting Contentful, we have seen an increase in sales and marketing from 45% to 65%. More work is delivered due to reusability and other features within a shorter time and with less manual effort.
it_user982032 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
A good product that helps me to manage complex digital solutions
My advice to others would be that Drupal is not only a CMS, you need to learn the Drupal fundamentals before to start the project. Drupal is a handy tool whenever you work on a digital infrastructure broad project and not only a simple website. So if you have a big project, you can use Drupal. But if you have a small website, like a blog or simple website, my advice would be not to use Drupal, because Drupal is too complex and the cost to maintain the platform can be too high, related to the value of your website, for example. If you have a website with a big product catalog, for example, in many languages and in many countries in the world, then Drupal is good. But if you have a simple website, like a portfolio or five page-website, you can use many other technologies that'd be simple to maintain and implement. On a scale from one to 10, I will rate Drupal an eight. In the next release, I would like to see basic page buttons and better integration with the analytics platform. A drag and drop function to create simple pages will also be handy. For example, if a customer wants to create a landing page, it should be easy for him or her to do so. I would also like to see better translation management.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Contentful has positively impacted my organization by allowing me to both develop and release content really quickly and be responsive to market changes and other factors."
"Contentful has positively impacted our organization because it is seamless and almost 60% of the content is flowing well with no dependency on any particular part of AEM."
"Since adopting Contentful, we have seen an increase in sales and marketing from 45% to 65%."
"Contentful is a very easy-to-use tool, making managing content very easy and serving as a very cost-effective solution, thus making it a recommendable tool."
"Contentful has positively impacted my work because I have people browsing Google and because I use SEO as well, and my articles are indexed and written by me, people come and read them, and the most valuable part is that some people find them attractive and actually read about topics like the difference between chatbots or agents, what is a chatbot, what is fine-tuning, or remote work, which are quite important looking at the market right now."
"Contentful has positively impacted my organization by greatly increasing productivity and collaboration."
"The best features Contentful offers are its APIs and how easy it is to integrate them."
"Contentful has positively impacted my organization by facilitating faster campaigns for marketing content, reducing the dev workload, and shortening the time to market, with no hard-coding of content, a clean API-based architecture, and reusable components."
"If you need an open-source, scalable and secure CMS, then go for Drupal."
"But it is worth it if you require an enterprise level web platform with great scalability, support, and security."
"It has a huge community and support from all over the web."
"We have built a production ready, heavy content website using this product within two to three months."
"Drupal always rises above for a large scale contributor base, general security, and lack of vulnerabilities."
"Being a community based product, the relationship with the product itself is providing back to the community."
"Drupal is the most powerful and flexible CMS."
"Previously, I have used a variety of solutions, including the custom ones, and I switched solutions because Drupal provides all the features that I need."
 

Cons

"A minor issue I have is that Contentful does not have a way to organize fields within an entry."
"One area where I believe Contentful can be improved is better handling of complex content relationships, as when content is deeply nested with references inside references, the queries can get messy and hard to manage on the front end."
"Contentful can be improved by enhancing their SDK to directly connect with our presentation layer, and if we just provide a class name or something, that would make it better."
"One way Contentful can be improved is that it requires development resources to get the most out of it, which some small organizations may find challenging."
"There was no return on investment. It was very expensive to implement all the needed specialties a company needs for its public publish strategy, to publish the content in different countries, different markets, and different languages."
"There were challenges because when I was creating a solution, I didn't know Contentful very well. I found a lot of problems with types and matching in TypeScript types with the fields I was using and with the API and the full module."
"I think the free tier has always been very generous, but the 25 content model types have at times been limiting, and I have had to find innovative ways to work around it because we are a community radio station that runs on donations and grants."
"Customer support for Contentful is very good; whenever I have a query, the customer support team is very responsible, although response times can be delayed sometimes."
"Modifying the themes (colors, dimensions, and pictures) could be easier."
"Creating complex content types (involving translations), is still a very slow and painful process."
"The GUI is still not as intuitive as WordPress."
"Drupal 8 is only 1.5 years old. It has stability issues, but not major ones."
"The admin interface has been lacking in usability."
"However, when you want to add a permission to a user role, something as simple as that checkbox, forces a config push, which annoys me."
"It is a little bit simplified."
"Overall business friendliness of the product: Digital experience features like target segmentation and campaign management have a long way to go."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I would like to see better pricing."
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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer with 51-200 employees
Aug 23, 2013
Jive vs Sharepoint vs Drupal Commons
At Mediacurrent we often get requests to compare Drupal to other platforms used for intranet sites and social business platforms (like https://dev.twitter.com/ for example). This is often referred to as “Social Business Software”, which has grown in popularity in recent years. I decided to do a…
 

Top Industries

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Government
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Marketing Services Firm
9%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise11
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Contentful?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is very cost-effective and the affordability is very high.
What needs improvement with Contentful?
I believe it would be nice to have some documentation, especially for new learners who are starting. A minor issue I have is that Contentful does not have a way to organize fields within an entry. ...
What is your primary use case for Contentful?
My main use case for Contentful is that it provides us with quick and easy content updates as it is the backend to our website. We use it to make changes, improvements, and updates on our content. ...
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Sample Customers

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BMJ, The Economist, New Republic, SpaceX, Lush, Danone, Tesla Motors, Peugeot, Stanford Law, Harvard, Oxford University, MIT Media Lab, The Beatles, MTV UK, The Weather Channel, NBC, BBC, grammy.com, Mus_e du Louvre, Whitehouse.gov, London.gov.uk, Gouvernment.fr, New Zealand Government, The Prince of Wales, British Council, NYC Metropolitan Transport Authority, Gatwick Obviously
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