What is Joomla?
Joomla! is an award-winning open-source content management system enabling the creation of websites and powerful online applications. Free and community-powered since 2005.
Joomla pricing
We don't have Joomla's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Joomla does
The capabilities that matter for cms software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- CMS type
- Traditional / monolithic
- Open-source
- ✓
- Self-hostable
- ✓
- Managed / cloud hosting offered
- ✓
- Headless API (REST/GraphQL)
- -
- Structured content modelling
- -
- Localisation / i18n
- ✓
- Content workflow / approvals
- -
- Visual / no-code page builder
- -
- Plugin / app ecosystem size
- thousands of free extensions and templates
- Multi-site / multi-tenant
- -
- Git-based / code-first workflow
- -
- Free / open tier
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Joomla alternatives
Other cms software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- ContentfulDeliver intelligent experiences from one sourcelow · 47%
- GhostThe best open source blog & newsletter platformmedium · 52%
- DrupalThe open source framework behind millions of websiteslow · 13%
- WixGo from words to a business-ready site that's entirely yours to shape, on the first hybrid website builder.low · 48%
- StoryblokYour Content Confidence Management Systemmedium · 60%
- UmbracoThe Most Agent-Ready CMS. AI On Your Terms.low · 19%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Joomla, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 75 | 32.00 | 2391.1 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 80 | 16.00 | 1280.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 100 | 10.00 | 1000.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 12.00 | 600.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 18.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 5 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"cms_type":"traditional","free_tier":true,"open_source":true,"localization":true,"self_hostable":true,"managed_hosting":true,"plugin_ecosystem":"thousands of free extensions and templates"} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |