What users are saying about
Contentful vs Drupal
27 Ratings
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Based on 27 reviews and ratings
357 Ratings
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Based on 357 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
- Drupal ranks higher in 4 feature sets: Security, Platform & Infrastructure, Web Content Creation, Web Content Management
Security

9.0
Contentful
90%

9.6
Drupal
96%
Drupal ranks higher in 1/1 features
Drupal ranks higher in 1/1 features
Role-based user permissions

9.0
90%
5 Ratings

9.6
96%
64 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure

7.7
Contentful
77%

9.0
Drupal
90%
Drupal ranks higher in 2/2 features
Drupal ranks higher in 2/2 features
API

7.0
70%
5 Ratings

9.0
90%
57 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language

8.5
85%
3 Ratings

9.0
90%
52 Ratings
Web Content Creation

7.2
Contentful
72%

8.3
Drupal
83%
Drupal ranks higher in 6/8 features
Drupal ranks higher in 6/8 features
WYSIWYG editor

7.3
73%
4 Ratings

8.5
85%
60 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness

9.0
90%
4 Ratings

8.6
86%
65 Ratings
Admin section

8.0
80%
6 Ratings

7.6
76%
67 Ratings
Page templates

7.6
76%
4 Ratings

7.8
78%
66 Ratings
Library of website themes

7.5
75%
2 Ratings

8.8
88%
57 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design

7.2
72%
2 Ratings

8.8
88%
62 Ratings
Publishing workflow

4.0
40%
6 Ratings

7.4
74%
66 Ratings
Form generator

7.0
70%
1 Rating

8.8
88%
62 Ratings
Web Content Management

6.9
Contentful
69%

8.4
Drupal
84%
Drupal ranks higher in 3/5 features
Drupal ranks higher in 3/5 features
Content taxonomy

6.0
60%
5 Ratings

8.7
87%
62 Ratings
SEO support

8.1
81%
4 Ratings

6.8
68%
61 Ratings
Bulk management

7.5
75%
2 Ratings

8.4
84%
58 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions

4.1
41%
4 Ratings

9.0
90%
60 Ratings
Community / comment management

9.0
90%
1 Rating

8.8
88%
60 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Contentful and Drupal are tied in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend

8.0
Contentful
80%
7 Ratings

8.0
Drupal
80%
76 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew

Contentful
N/A
0 Ratings

8.2
Drupal
82%
18 Ratings
Usability

Contentful
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
Drupal
100%
9 Ratings
Availability

Contentful
N/A
0 Ratings

9.7
Drupal
97%
6 Ratings
Performance

Contentful
N/A
0 Ratings

8.9
Drupal
89%
4 Ratings
Support Rating

Contentful
N/A
0 Ratings

5.0
Drupal
50%
8 Ratings
In-Person Training

Contentful
N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
Drupal
80%
1 Rating
Online Training

Contentful
N/A
0 Ratings

6.0
Drupal
60%
2 Ratings
Implementation Rating

Contentful
N/A
0 Ratings

5.1
Drupal
51%
8 Ratings
Product Scalability

Contentful
N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
Drupal
80%
2 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Contentful
Contentful is well suited for folks who want a simple, clean, easy-to-use interface for a JAVASCRIPT website. If you do not want a javascript website you should look [elsewhere].
Web Marketing Manager
Lively, Inc.Financial Services, 51-200 employees
Drupal
Drupal is suitable for design or development professionals looking for a more robust platform than Joomla or WordPress. It has many better features. With a little thought and creativity, Drupal allows you to do many amazing things. The possibility of integration with PHP modules is really the limit for customization. However, Drupal is not suitable for amateurs; someone who wants to make just one website for themselves; or a professional on a tight deadline. The learning curve can be a very big obstacle and is sometimes not worth it.
I have been working for some time and sometimes give up on some projects and choose another tool. It is definitely not a technology for those in a hurry, it is necessary to have time and dedication. The newer versions of Drupal are more friendly and intuitive and allow the construction of many cool things.
I have been working for some time and sometimes give up on some projects and choose another tool. It is definitely not a technology for those in a hurry, it is necessary to have time and dedication. The newer versions of Drupal are more friendly and intuitive and allow the construction of many cool things.
Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial
SENAI-DNNon-profit Organization Management, 10,001+ employees
Pros
Contentful
- Clean, modern interface (not clunky and outdated, like WordPress)
- High degree of flexibility (I can structure data any way my clients need)
- Enables headless frontend (i.e. I can build any frontend I want without having to change my CMS)
Digital Strategist
Sherpa Design Co.Design, 1-10 employees
Drupal
- Content Types... these are amazing. Whereas a more simplistic CMS like Wordpress will basically allow you to make posts and build pages, Drupal 8 gives you the ability to define different types of content that behave differently, and are served up differently in different areas of the website.
- Extensibility... it scales, ohhhh does it scale. They've really figured out server-side caching, and it makes all the difference. Once a page has been cached, it's available instantly to all users worldwide; and when coupled with AWS, global redundancy and localization mean that no matter where you're accessing the site, it always loads fast and crisp.
- Workflows... you have the ability to define very specific roles and/or user-based editorial workflows, allowing for as many touchpoints and reviews between content creation and publication as you'll require.
Senior Project Manager
OnMetricInternet, 11-50 employees
Cons
Contentful
- The new Contentful "branches" feature looked promising (it appears to mirror a git-like repository) but it requires the CLI, which isn't necessarily practical for teams that aren't current CLI users. It would be nice if the management of this feature were available via the UI (without that it causes more confusion than anything).
- The Contentful data modeling method makes for a bit of an awkward SDK developer experience in some strongly typed languages like Java. Most things that you might need can be accomplished, but it feels like the experience could be smoother.
- It would be nice if there were a way to migrate data between spaces (e.g. from your staging space to production).
Lead Developer
SaaSquatchMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Drupal
- Drupal's admin side is very powerful and flexible, but it's a little bit harder to wrap one's mind around. If a customer is familiar with using a basic WordPress site, showing them the full Drupal back-end might be overwhelming and confusing at first. Luckily you can easily limit and customize the admin pages that each role sees.
- Drupal is huge and complex. Doing simple things is generally simple, but more advanced capabilities of Drupal have a higher learning curve (as can be expected). You can build a Drupal site quickly, but don't expect to build your dream site with loads of custom features in a week.
- Ready-made themes are more sparse than something like WordPress. If you're most interested in simply plugging an existing theme in and using it, you won't find as many professional-looking themes out of the box. There are some, but with Drupal, the best results are usually achieved by finding a good base theme and creating your own child theme based off of it.
Head of Development Technologies
Top Floor TechnologiesInternet, 11-50 employees
Pricing Details
Contentful
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
Starting Price
$0
Contentful Editions & Modules
Edition
Community | Free |
---|---|
Team | 489/month |
Enterprise | Custom |
- none
Additional Pricing Details
—Drupal
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Drupal Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Likelihood to Renew
Contentful
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Drupal
Drupal 8.2
Based on 18 answers
The time and money invested into this platform were too great to discontinue it at this point. I'm sure it will be in use for a while. We have also spent time training many employees how to use it. All of these things add up to quite an investment in the product. Lastly, it basically fulfills what we need our intranet site to do.
Learning and Development Specialist
Omnitec Solutions Inc.E-Learning, 51-200 employees
Usability
Contentful
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Drupal
Drupal 10.0
Based on 9 answers
It's a great CMS platform and there are a ton of plugins to add some serious functionality, but the security updates are too complex to implement and considering the complexity of the platform, security updates are a must. I don't want my site breached because they make it too difficult to keep it up to date.

Verified User
Director in Other
Education Management Company, 1-10 employeesReliability and Availability
Contentful
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Drupal
Drupal 9.7
Based on 6 answers
Drupal itself does not tend to have bugs that cause sporadic outages. When deployed on a well-configured LAMP stack, deployment and maintenance problems are minimal, and in general no exotic tuning or configuration is required.For highest uptime, putting a caching proxy like Varnish in front of Drupal (or a CDN that supports dynamic applications).
Principal Engineer
AcquiaComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Performance
Contentful
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Drupal
Drupal 8.9
Based on 4 answers
Drupal page loads can be slow, as a great many database calls may be required to generate a page. It is highly recommended to use caching systems, both built-in and external to lessen such database loads and improve performance. I haven't had any problems with behind-the-scenes integrations with external systems.
Programmer Analyst
Goodwill of Central ArizonaInternet, 11-50 employees
Support Rating
Contentful
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Drupal
Drupal 5.0
Based on 8 answers
As noted earlier, the support of the community can be rather variable, with some modules attracting more attraction and action in their issue queues, but overall, the development community for Drupal is second to none. It probably the single greatest aspect of being involved in this open-source project.
Programmer Analyst
Goodwill of Central ArizonaInternet, 11-50 employees
In-Person Training
Contentful
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Drupal
Drupal 8.0
Based on 1 answer
I was part of the team that conducted the training. Our training was fine, but we could have been better informed on Drupal before we started providing it. If we did not have answers to tough questions, we had more technical staff we could consult with. We did provide hands-on practice time for the learners, which I would always recommend. That is where the best learning occurred.
Learning and Development Specialist
Omnitec Solutions Inc.E-Learning, 51-200 employees
Online Training
Contentful
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Drupal
Drupal 6.0
Based on 2 answers
The on-line training was not as ideal as the face-to-face training. It was done remotely and only allowed for the trainers to present information to the learners and demonstrate the platform online. There was not a good way to allow for the learners to practice, ask questions and have them answered all in the same session.
Learning and Development Specialist
Omnitec Solutions Inc.E-Learning, 51-200 employees
Implementation Rating
Contentful
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Drupal
Drupal 5.1
Based on 8 answers
Plan ahead as much you can. You really need to know how to build what you want with the modules available to you, or that you might need to code yourself, in order to make the best use of Drupal. I recommend you analyze the most technically difficult workflows and other aspects of your implementation, and try building some test versions of those first. Get feedback from stakeholders early and often, because you can easily find yourself in a situation where your implementation does 90% of what you want, but, due to something you didn't plan for, foresee, or know about, there's no feasible way to get past the last 10%
Programmer Analyst
Goodwill of Central ArizonaInternet, 11-50 employees
Alternatives Considered
Contentful
Contentful offers a great deal of features for a relatively low price. This is what ended up persuading us to purchase it. We also gathered that this was one of the more well-rated products out there, which was encouraging. It definitely stacks up well against its competitors.
SEO Specialist
BambooHRComputer Software, 201-500 employees
Drupal
Drupal is community-backed making it more accessible and growing at a faster rate than Sitefinity which is a proprietary product built on .NET. Drupal is PHP-based using some but not all Symphony codebase. Updates for Drupal are frequent and so are feature adds.
Application Developer
Kansas State Historical SocietyMuseums & Institutions, 11-50 employees
Scalability
Contentful
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Drupal
Drupal 8.0
Based on 2 answers
Drupal is well known to be scalable, although it requires solid knowledge of MySQL best practices, caching mechanisms, and other server-level best practices. I have never personally dealt with an especially large site, so I can speak well to the issues associated with Drupal scaling.
Programmer Analyst
Goodwill of Central ArizonaInternet, 11-50 employees
Return on Investment
Contentful
- Positive: faster changes and new associates can easily navigate without prior training/knowledge of CMS to make content updates
- Negative: Our website manager/provider can keep certain abilities (like changing specific images) so they can charge a fee for making the change
Marketing Coordinator for FirstService Realty NYC
FirstService Residential New YorkReal Estate, 10,001+ employees
Drupal
- Our overall site traffic has grown exponentially since we have moved to it.
- We have been able to bring a standardized format to all of our resources and communications.
- Promoting new products is much easier due to the easy to use interface of Drupal, we can get a new product launch page up in record time compared to our old platform.

Verified User
Technician in Marketing
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees