Comparison

Contentful vs Joomla

On the evidence we track, Contentful leads this comparison with a composite score of 81/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Contentful81
Joomla54
Score
vioscaleAI score
Contentful81 / 100medium · 59%
Joomla54 / 100medium · 62%
Pricing
Free tier
Contentful✓
Joomla✓
Model
Contentfulcommercial
Joomlafree
Price level
Contentfulfree
Joomlafree
Transparent
Contentful✓
Joomla✓
Integrations
Count
Contentful–
Joomla8
Security
Disclosure policy
Contentful✓
Joomla✓
Gdpr
Contentful–
Joomla✓
Iso27001
Contentful✓
Joomla–
Pci
Contentful✓
Joomla–
Scorecard
Contentful–
Joomla4.5
Soc2
Contentful✓
Joomla–
Reliability
Status page
Contentful✓
Joomla✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Contentful–
Joomla0
Github stars
Contentful–
Joomla5,147
Activity
Commits last 30d
Contentful–
Joomla75
Release
Cadence days
Contentful–
Joomla2
History
Contentful–
Joomla20 items
License
Spdx
Contentful–
JoomlaGPL-2.0
Language
Primary
Contentful–
JoomlaPHP
Market
Availability
Contentful–
Content
Faq
Contentful5 items
Joomla7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for cms software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
CMS type
ContentfulHeadless / API-first
JoomlaTraditional / monolithic
Licensing
Open-source
Contentful✗
Joomla✓
Deployment
Self-hostable
Contentful✗
Joomla✓
Managed / cloud hosting offered
Contentful✓
Joomla✓
Delivery
Headless API (REST/GraphQL)
Contentful✓
Joomla-
Content
Structured content modelling
Contentful✓
Joomla✓
Localisation / i18n
Contentful✓
Joomla✓
Content workflow / approvals
Contentful✓
Joomla✓
Editing
Visual / no-code page builder
Contentful✓
Joomla-
Extensibility
Plugin / app ecosystem size
ContentfulMarketplace with apps and integrations to extend platform
JoomlaThousands of free extensions and templates
Scale
Multi-site / multi-tenant
Contentful✓
Joomla-
Workflow
Git-based / code-first workflow
Contentful-
Joomla✓
Pricing
Free / open tier
Contentful✓
Joomla✓

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Contentful

Leader

Contentful is a headless CMS and digital experience platform enabling teams to create and deliver personalized content at scale, with AI-powered automation, visual content assembly, and comprehensive workflow capabilities.

Independently observed

Joomla

An award-winning open-source content management system that empowers users to build and manage websites and online applications with extensive customization through a large ecosystem of community-contributed components.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Contentful

Leader
from $0/moSubscriptionFree tier

Free tier available. Lite plan free base with $850/month per additional space. Enterprise with custom pricing.

  • FreeFree
    • 2 Roles (Admin, Editor)
    • 2 Custom Locales
    • 100K/month API calls (no overages)
    • 50 GB/month asset bandwidth CDN (no overages)
    • 50 MB max asset upload size
    • +14 more
  • LiteFree base; additional spaces $850/month
    • 3 Roles (Admin, Editor, Author)
    • 3 Custom Locales
    • 1M/month API calls with paid overages allowed
    • 100 GB/month asset bandwidth CDN with paid overages allowed
    • 1000 MB max asset upload size
    • +25 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • All Lite features
    • Custom roles and locales
    • Custom API calls with paid overages
    • Custom asset bandwidth with paid overages
    • AI Actions with included quotas
    • +9 more
as of verify ↗

Joomla

FreeFree tier

Free and open source

as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Contentful✓
Joomla✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Contentful✓
Joomla✗
Self-hosted
Contentful✗
Joomla✓
On-premise
Contentful✗
Joomla✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Contentful

Leader

Not documented yet.

Joomla

8 total
  • 123RF
  • Algolia
  • AppVeyor
  • Civic
  • CleanTalk
  • CloudAccess.net
  • CodiumAI
  • Crowdin
Independently observed
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