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Liferay Digital Experience Platform vs Wix comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Liferay Digital Experience ...
Ranking in Web Content Management
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (3rd), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (3rd), AI Customer Experience Personalization (27th)
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 October 2026, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Liferay Digital Experience Platform is 5.4%, down from 7.6% 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 (%)
Liferay Digital Experience Platform5.4%
Wix1.6%
Other93.0%
Web Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

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E-Governance Head at Creant Technologies
Optimizing digital presence with customizable design and seamless integration
The main benefits that Liferay Digital Experience Platform brings to the table are numerous. First is rapid application development and many features. Features such as content management and document management make your life easy; workflow management is also present. Workflow can be designed and derived. Form development and everything is very smooth and easy to deliver to the end customer, and you can find many features in one box. You have blogs, wikis, and everything with out-of-box functionality. My experience with actionable insights is positive; they help in refining content strategies. The content creation is helpful. For external content creation, I use headless CMS APIs for Liferay Digital Experience Platform, and headless APIs for content creation are also available. My thoughts on the integration capabilities are that integration is seamless. You have headless APIs where you can integrate seamlessly with any other application such as LDAP or SSO, or you can also integrate with different external systems. You have an SAP connector; everything is available. Liferay Digital Experience Platform's open source flexibility has helped in customizing functionalities for the specific needs of my customers as it is a highly flexible application that can be optimized. My advice for other organizations considering Liferay Digital Experience Platform is that if it's available, we need to improve on the performance, which is currently what we are seeing. Otherwise, earlier Service Builder was acceptable. On a scale of 1-10, I rate Liferay Digital Experience Platform a 9.
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

"Flexibility to fit our business requirements under many different scenarios, from simple public web sites to customer or distributor portal solutions and intranets."
"It has a built-in WCMS (web content management system) and provides the ability to develop complex portlet-based web applications, which is valuable because it is Java/Java EE-based and open source."
"The web/mobile/portal integration was one of the features that we found most valuable, primarily because it reduced our development time."
"Liferay is highly scalable and more complex than Drupal."
"Liferay has a CMS, role-based permissions, and hierarchy-of-organization community management which provides lots of features for intranet and enterprise applications."
"The product has helped our members and communities to freely connect, share knowledge, develop initiatives and share expertise in a secure environment."
"Liferay is very quick and easy to set up, whether you are using the built-in database or an external database."
"Considering the overall drive towards providing a digital experience to clients, to provide a connected experience, federated touchpoints, dynamic personalization, customer context and interactions, the product has evolved very strongly from just being a horizontal portal system into a digital experience platform."
"I like the solution's responsiveness, usability, and user interface."
"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."
"I found everything okay in Wix, and it's easy to create a website."
"Basic features can be grasped in a couple of hours because it's CMS-based with all tools readily available."
"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."
 

Cons

"Documentation for the newly launched version is not up to the mark."
"Liferay is a phenomenal product with deficient marketing."
"I would like to see better documentation. Updates in the documentation do not follow updates in the code and functionality."
"Staging and LARs export/import features. This is always a pain in Liferay with many errors caused mostly by some inconsistent data in the database."
"I am having a hard time getting through the security scans."
"Setup was not straightforward. The Community Edition was a bit complicated and they should fix the code."
"It could be improved in terms of adding filters to some of the rules. Therefore, you can retain how long a document would need to stay in an archive."
"For new installations, the setup is simple; but again migrations for the old version are a nightmare."
"There are a few bugs where what it says it will show on the phone versus the laptop does not always match."
"The solution’s scalability can be improved."
"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."
"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

"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
"It is a bit expensive."
"The product is neither cheap nor expensive. What Liferay Digital Experience Platform offers at its current price can be considered something that is worth the money."
"It's an open-source structure. Other costs are for professional services to integrate Liferay to other existing systems."
"Their pricing model should be modified to include per user options instead of just servers/cores, etc."
"Wix is an affordable solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
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 Business20
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise23
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise1
 

Questions from the Community

What is the best feature of Liferay?
A tricky question because it'd depend on what your focus will be on Liferay as a digital experience platform. I mean, if for me the experience management is the best feature, for someone with diff...
Is Liferay suitable for complete beginners?
A non-developer here, and frankly, a little bit of a tech beginner in general. My company branched out into digital experience a bit later than we should have but picking Liferay as a DXP was one o...
What is Liferay’s capacity for backup?
Yes, I think you can trust the cloud feature of Liferay pretty well. It gives you the option to back up your data as well as restore it and that's pretty vital for any digital experience platform....
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

Liferay DXP
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Sample Customers

Adidas, Carrefour, Cisco Systems, Danone, Fujitsu, Lufthansa Flight Training, Siemens, Société Générale and the United Nations
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