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Contentful vs Jive comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Contentful
Ranking in Web Content Management
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Jive
Ranking in Web Content Management
20th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (28th), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (7th), Enterprise Social Software (8th), Knowledge Management Software (12th), Enterprise Intranet (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Contentful is 1.2%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jive is 2.4%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Contentful1.2%
Jive2.4%
Other96.4%
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.
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VP - International Business at Amtex S.A.
A flexible solution that improves our administrative efficiency
We use Jive-n for followups on details regarding purchase orders, shipping documents, and other information We are able to handle more than one hundred POs at any given time with their shipping docs and info, with only one person in charge. This solution provides great flexibility of permission…

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 as it upscales the revenue and enhances my mobile and kiosk application appearance and feel with dynamic content."
"Contentful offers great features such as various plugin options, an excellent preview option, scheduling, and workflows, making it simple to create, author, and publish content efficiently with an intuitive interface."
"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 impacted my organization positively because it is the best headless CMS, and it is very useful for my organization."
"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."
"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."
"Website management has become very easy, and content updates to websites are straightforward."
"I have definitely seen a positive return on investment with Contentful, due to time-saving and efficiency gains, team collaborations, and resource optimizations, which have also positively impacted the revenue."
"Colleagues are more informed, it is easier to find content, and silo breaking has significantly improved our collaboration."
"Jive came out on top for feature, price, and ability to meet regulatory needs."
"The platform works well to collaborate with creating documents or media for a specific goal."
"We are able to handle more than one hundred POs at any given time with their shipping docs and info, with only one person in charge."
"Jive-n offers the best curated experience of the social-based content for enterprises."
"We recently rebranded our organization and used this tool as our primary channel."
"Various business groups were able to collaborate effectively using this tool."
"In comparison to other platforms, Jive-n provides the fastest way to integrate new affiliates into your organization."
 

Cons

"Apart from that, the price is a bit high when we are storing more content in the CMS."
"I have seen a return on investment with fewer employees needed and time saved, but the money costs are quite high."
"Contentful can improve by addressing one technical issue regarding the creation of builds."
"A minor issue I have is that Contentful does not have a way to organize fields within an entry."
"Contentful could be improved in the following ways. It would be much easier if I could move data from one environment to another without any CLI tools."
"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."
"I think Contentful could be improved if it could include built-in localization, meaning translation of language, and allow for creative editing of visual and imagery."
"Contentful needs to be improved for migration, not only for migration, but from lower to higher environments as well, as the schema diffs and everything are not working as expected."
"Create a better way of adding users in bulk by email address."
"A visual navigator would be very useful as many colleagues have an issue to find their way and connect the dots."
"We had major performance issues when our user base went up."
"The mobile app could be better."
"Jive-n can improve their integration, plugins and democratize their configuration abilities."
"The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."
"Stream activity could be better organized."
"Standard Silver technical support is similar to standard support by all vendors, i.e., not quick enough."
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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

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Construction Company
16%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
24%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise17
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Contentful?
Setup cost and pricing are handled by our organization's admin team. Currently, I do not have much information on this.
What needs improvement with Contentful?
While Contentful already incorporates a lot of AI integration, improvements could be made in feature-wise AI integrations, such as generating SEO data for product catalogs or assisting marketers in...
What is your primary use case for Contentful?
My main use case for Contentful involves developing e-commerce storefront applications that require displaying dynamic content like banners for hero images on the homepage or product sliders, which...
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Comparisons

 

Also Known As

No data available
Clearspace, Jive SBS, Jive Engage, Jive-x, Jive-n
 

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Sample Customers

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Eloqua, Hitachi Data Systems,T-Mobile, UBM, Thomson-Reuters, Groupon, Nike, Cisco, and others.
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