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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Drupal

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/ADrupal is a free, open-source content management system written in PHP that competes primarily with Joomla and Plone. The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features such as account and menu management, RSS feeds, page layout customization, and system administration.N/A

    HighLevel

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AHighLevel is an all-in-one white-label marketing platform for digital agencies boasting CRM, Email, 2-way SMS, Funnel Builder, web page / landing page designer or online calendar builder, etc., from the company of the same name in Eugene.

    $97

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    Pricing
    DrupalHighLevel
    Editions & Modules
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    Starter
    $97
    per month
    Unlimited
    $297
    per month
    SaaS Pro
    $497
    per month
    Offerings
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    DrupalHighLevel
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    DrupalHighLevel
    Considered Both Products
    Open Source
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    HighLevel
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    76%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    76%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    DrupalHighLevel
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Drupal and HighLevel
    Feature
    Drupal
    8.3
    74 Ratings
    1% above category average
    HighLevel
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    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.374 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Drupal and HighLevel
    Feature
    Drupal
    7.8
    69 Ratings
    0% below category average
    HighLevel
    5.4
    6 Ratings
    2% above category average
    API7.364 Ratings9.56 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language8.260 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings9.56 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings8.86 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings1.64 Ratings
    Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings1.64 Ratings
    Integration with SugarCRM00 Ratings1.64 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Drupal and HighLevel
    Feature
    Drupal
    6.5
    78 Ratings
    19% below category average
    HighLevel
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    WYSIWYG editor6.371 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.275 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section7.078 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates5.677 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes5.568 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design6.572 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow6.776 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator6.672 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Drupal and HighLevel
    Feature
    Drupal
    6.6
    77 Ratings
    13% below category average
    HighLevel
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    Content taxonomy6.971 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support6.472 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management6.467 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions6.670 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management6.869 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Drupal and HighLevel
    Feature
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    HighLevel
    9.4
    6 Ratings
    25% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings9.56 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings9.26 Ratings
    Landing pages00 Ratings8.96 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings9.56 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings9.56 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings9.56 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings9.56 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings9.86 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Drupal and HighLevel
    Feature
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    HighLevel
    9.7
    6 Ratings
    37% above category average
    Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings9.86 Ratings
    Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings9.86 Ratings
    Data quality management00 Ratings9.56 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings9.76 Ratings
    Lead segmentation and distribution00 Ratings9.84 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Drupal and HighLevel
    Feature
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    HighLevel
    9.8
    6 Ratings
    27% above category average
    Calendaring00 Ratings9.86 Ratings
    Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings9.76 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Drupal and HighLevel
    Feature
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    HighLevel
    9.4
    6 Ratings
    30% above category average
    Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings9.76 Ratings
    Social profile integration00 Ratings9.16 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Drupal and HighLevel
    Feature
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    HighLevel
    9.4
    6 Ratings
    30% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings9.86 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings9.86 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings8.76 Ratings
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    DrupalHighLevel
    Small Businesses
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Thryv
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    LocaliQ
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DrupalHighLevel
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.8
    (87 ratings)
    9.9
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    1.0
    (19 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    6.9
    (20 ratings)
    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    DrupalHighLevel
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    If you want to set up a basic Not For Profit (NFP) Membership system and content base, Word Press is easier than Drupal. However, if you have specific needs that require a fair bit of customisation then Drupal is the best CRM available. If the webmaster is confident with PHP and SQL, Drupal allows a lot of creativity.
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    HighLevel
    HighLevel is great for so many types of businesses. Basically most business will be able to find value using HighLevel. It saves a lot of time playing with multiple software. It is more affordable being that everything you need is in the one place. So it allows you to focus on growing your business and not worrying about the technology and outgrowing your current technology setup. Companies from startups to global brands capitalise on HighLevel's features and functionality. The HighLevel community is also very helpful with hundreds of thousands of worldwide users it is easy to find support and help whenever you need it.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Drag and drop functionality is easy to use
    • Easy to switch between straight text and HTML content
    • Ability to easily have multiple environments so that pages can be built in b/c-stage before they are approved and published
    • Solid user experience where it's clear how to navigate the platform
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    HighLevel
    • Evolves with the times
    • Incorporate user feedback and requests in feature and product development.
    • Very Customizable
    • Cost-effective
    • Wide ranging features
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • This is not an easy CMS to work with if you don't have a good understanding of website development. It isn't "plug-and-play" like Wordpress or Shopify.
    • Over time, doing major updates to the system can be taxing, especially if you aren't well-versed enough in doing system updates in line with your "child" theme and code.
    • The CMS can become somewhat cumbersome with server resources if not carefully optimized while you build and customize it to your liking.
    Incentivized
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    HighLevel
    • We encounter bugs from time to time
    • Considering it's all-in-one, individual features are not as powerful as counterparts that specialize in those services
    • Loads slowly at times
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
    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.
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    HighLevel
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Open Source
    As a team, we found Drupal to be highly customizable and flexible, allowing our development team to go to great lengths to develop desired functionalities. It can be used as a solution for all types of web projects. It comes with a robust admin interface that provides greater flexibility once the user gets acquainted with the system.
    Incentivized
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    HighLevel
    HighLevel is a great tool, and is a real "all rounder" that helps agencies keep costs down and profits high. It really does serve the majority of marketing agency needs, but it does fall down slightly on some specialist areas, where a dedicated CRM would be best for example. It can be a little tricky to use and buggy, which does cause some frustration sometimes.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Open Source
    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).
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    HighLevel
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Open Source
    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.
    Incentivized
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    HighLevel
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Open Source
    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.
    Incentivized
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    HighLevel
    No answers on this topic
    In-Person Training
    Open Source
    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.
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    HighLevel
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Open Source
    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.
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    HighLevel
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Open Source
    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%
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    HighLevel
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    Drupal can be more complex to learn, but it offers a much wider range of applications. Drupal’s front and backend can be customized from design to functionality to allow for a wide range of uses. If someone wants to create something more complex than a simple site or blog, Drupal can be an amazing asset to have at hand.
    Incentivized
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    HighLevel
    HighLevel competes with other funnel builders, automations providers and CRMs. HighLevel has a clear advantage in terms of value for money. It gives you a lot of bang for buck. We can get cheaper but you will not get all the same features and development speed as HighLevel. You can get a bit nicer page builders, email marketing tools etc but they will come at a lot more $$. So it really depends. You can spend some more $$ in HighLevel and get custom built css styling and make it look and feel the same as more $$ tools. So really you can't lose with HighLevel in the long run.
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    Scalability
    Open Source
    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.
    Incentivized
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    HighLevel
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Given the endless possibilities that Drupal can have, we tend to have great support going on when we get a website launched
    • It has become much much faster and easier for us to launch a new project due to reusability
    • Configuration management in Drupal helps greatly with CI/CD, saves us costs
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    HighLevel
    • HighLevel has helped our business grow over the past two years by giving us a place to manage our client communication.
    Incentivized
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