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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Concrete CMS

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AConcrete CMS (formerly Concrete5) is a free and open source, PHP built content management system for content on the web and also for intranets. It is optimized to support the creation of online magazines and newspapers.N/A

    HubSpot Content Hub

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AHubspot Content Hub is used to take control of content assets. The unified platform is used to manage, update, and distribute content from a central location, ensuring everyone has access to the most up-to-date and relevant materials.

    $20

    per month

    Pricing
    Concrete CMSHubSpot Content Hub
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $20
    per month per seat
    Content Hub Professional
    $500
    per month 3 seats included, $50 for each additional seat
    Content Hub Enterprise
    $1500
    per month 5 seats included, $75 for each additional seat
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Concrete CMSHubSpot Content Hub
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAnnual commitment required. A discount is offered for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    Concrete CMSHubSpot Content Hub
    Considered Both Products
    Portland Labs
    No answer on this topic
    HubSpot
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    22 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    22 Answers
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    82%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    22 Answers
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    Features
    Concrete CMSHubSpot Content Hub
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Concrete CMS and HubSpot Content Hub
    Feature
    Concrete CMS
    9.5
    38 Ratings
    14% above category average
    HubSpot Content Hub
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions9.538 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Concrete CMS and HubSpot Content Hub
    Feature
    Concrete CMS
    9.7
    33 Ratings
    22% above category average
    HubSpot Content Hub
    -
    Ratings
    API9.731 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language9.730 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Concrete CMS and HubSpot Content Hub
    Feature
    Concrete CMS
    8.4
    42 Ratings
    7% above category average
    HubSpot Content Hub
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor9.342 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness10.037 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section10.040 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates10.040 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes4.238 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design9.739 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow7.737 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator6.639 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Concrete CMS and HubSpot Content Hub
    Feature
    Concrete CMS
    6.9
    40 Ratings
    8% below category average
    HubSpot Content Hub
    -
    Ratings
    Content taxonomy8.939 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support9.039 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management6.039 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions5.439 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management5.439 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Concrete CMSHubSpot Content Hub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (59 ratings)
    7.5
    (18 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (22 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (13 ratings)
    7.8
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.8
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Concrete CMSHubSpot Content Hub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Portland Labs
    Suitable if you are part of small to large scale companies or web-houses which have PHP developers and frontend engineers with some budgets. [Also suitable if] you or your client want to build a website that requires some features or uniqueness [and needs] some customization and freedom. Additionally suitable if you want this project to be DevOps based project or if the project requires very tight security and is inside of a closed network.
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    HubSpot
    If you want all your marketing activities to be in one place, where your CRM and customer data exist, go for Hubspot's entire suite, which could include CMS, depending on your needs. If you have to create a company blog, marketing landing pages for events or lead generation, or send decently designed newsletters, Hubspot does the job well. Any company that has grown to enterprise level or has fragmented marketing should probably not use Hubspot CMS because of the fragmented activities that might occur. Hubspot's reporting can also break. Also, if you want your designed pages to be very creative with many animations, Hubspot CMS is probably not the way to go. But for anyone who is still finding their footing, go for it.
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    Pros
    Portland Labs
    • As a dev, the Page object (coupled with page attributes, nav menus and page lists) makes structuring a website or web app a dream. The separation of page templates from page types also helps, the former being about layout while the latter is more conceptual.
    • As an admin, you pretty much have as much control as the developers of the site decide to give you.
    • The versioning system allows admins to roll changes back and work on changes before publishing them.
    • The permissions system is exceptionally powerful, allowing roles and/or individual users to be included or excluded from each permission.
    • The attributes system allows pages, files and users to be given custom properties of various types (e.g. text, image, colour).
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    HubSpot
    • Asset control is super easy if your willing to create folder structures that make sense
    • Drag and drop building elements are great, even if you create custom blocks
    • control of domains and how they link into your main system is super easy
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    Cons
    Portland Labs
    • Allow end users to clear cache when updating pages.
    • Needs a few more built in forms.
    • The CMS is not multilingual by default. Even though I managed to 'hack' it so, it would be nice to have it included.
    • It'd be nice to make use of custom PHP modules through shortcodes more straight forward. It seems the hooks are a bit contrived.
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    HubSpot
    • Although you can integrate it with Google Analytics, there is still a significant difference between what each tells you about [a] number of visitors to a given page, etc.
    • There's a lot to the program and it's not always intuitive where to go for a feature. Though the help center and academy are good and usually have the answers, having to look things up isn't.
    • It's expensive.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Portland Labs
    Its a very solid, very consistent package that never lets you down or leaves you frustrated. It gets a 10/10 because its so much better than anything else currently available. It also gets a 10/10 because, even if not compared to others, it does not leave you wanting for features or functionality. It is an excellent piece of software that will answer almost every CMS need.
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    HubSpot
    I don't think we justify the amount of usage we have of CMS Hub professional. We might discontinue it to save some bucks. But if we ever need an extensive solution, we'll come back to it, as we already other products of Hubspot (Sales Hub, Reporting, Automations)
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Portland Labs
    I have used it on over 30 projects in the past 3 years and it's still a pleasure to work in. Doesn't always have all the answers, no CMS does, but I still find it very easy to use from prototyping to working to final project. Also there is no problem working on a localhost then moving to a live site, like there is with WordPress. It's my go to app in my CMS quiver.
    Incentivized
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    HubSpot
    HubSpot CMS HUB is well-rounded and brings a robust list of capabilities while maintaining an ease-of-use that beginners can engage. HubSpot is by far the best at doing this among the half-dozen or so CMS platforms I've used in my 20+ years experience. It turns glorified business card websites into purposeful marketing machines that become a key part of a marketing strategy rather than a complicated and frustrating mess.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Portland Labs
    Since it's not tied to a central server (other than for authorizing updates and assigning licenses to specific sites), it's available pretty much 100% of the time.
    Incentivized
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    HubSpot
    As of now we didn't face any application errors and unplanned outages.
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    Performance
    Portland Labs
    The site works extremely well, the front end flies, searches and form submissions are very fast indeed. The reason its a 9 not a ten? the back end can be a little slow at times, and this is unfair, because for the backend to be so amazing, it has to do a huge amount of work!
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    HubSpot
    Yes the pages load fastly and this tool is pretty good in integration with other tools like zapier, calendly and so on.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Portland Labs
    Concrete5 is open-source and has an incredibly strong, polite, and supportive community. You can get an answer to nearly anything you want to do with Concrete5 by googling for it, searching the Concrete5 discussion forums or stack overflow, or posting your question to the forum. Members are very courteous and do not look down on those with less knowledge. And answers are always quick, informative, and supportive.
    Incentivized
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    HubSpot
    They are always there to help in any way possible. Our account manager works out any situations we may encounter during business hours
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    Online Training
    Portland Labs
    No answers on this topic
    HubSpot
    Pretty easy and resources available at fingertips.
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    Implementation Rating
    Portland Labs
    Build off of an existing theme to speed up the creation of custom designed themed. Bootstrap is a good one but there are many others that are probably much simpler to build from than the Bootstrap one was. Make sure you host on a Unix/Linux server so you don't have to install PHP or MySQL separately. It's just smoother on those platforms.
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    HubSpot
    Yes, recreation of landing pages, forms and email templates.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Portland Labs
    WordPress at the time was riddled with security breaches in the news and while Concrete5 was smaller (and therefore a smaller attack vector), after eleven years of use, Concrete5 has only had one published incident with an add-on that resolved within hours and with excellent communication. You can talk to the CEO and the CTO (or the rest of the team). They are very engaged and you're working with a small company of people who care, not a call-center with people just waiting to go home.
    Incentivized
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    HubSpot
    We have about 10 seats that were needed. Wanted a sales platform that had good status and reputation. HubSpot was the best choice for me given Salesforce not being the best in the past. Price was appealing and our team liked the overlay. Other options do not provide the same ability with data
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Portland Labs
    No answers on this topic
    HubSpot
    Because it aligns with our goals and streamlined all the hubspot at one place.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Portland Labs
    • Concrete5 is the customer-facing side of our business. It's where we host the site that potential customers see before they choose to purchase and create an account with us. We are able to keep that site clean, user-friendly, and with a lot of available options for customers to interact with thanks to Concrete5
    • The ability to have multiple users and admins for the site means that we all members of our team can go in and create new content, fix or troubleshoot issues, and edit the site easily.
    • Our CRM isn't directly integrated with Concrete5, so when customers go to make a purchase with us, they have to leave our Concrete5 site.
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    HubSpot
    • When I was using it I couldn't see the direct return on investment since I was only seeing web development.
    • Practicality when creating articles and content
    • Efficiency when creating landing pages, basically content and interactions, but no return on investment in money.
    • Cuando lo estuve usando no pude ver el retorno de inversión directa ya que solo veía desarrollo web
    • Practicidad al momento de crear artículos y contenido
    • Eficiencia al momento de crear landings, basicamente contenido e interacciones pero no retorno de inversion en dinero
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Concrete CMS Screenshots

    Screenshot of In-context editing is simple to understandScreenshot of Change text just like a word processorScreenshot of Versioning and workflow built on top of powerful permissionsScreenshot of Flexible backend to power complex communities and intranets.