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Craft CMS vs Silverstripe CMS: catalog facts
Craft CMSSilverstripe CMS
Freemium

Paid editions, support plans and SLAs are available alongside community support.

Free

Free and open source under the BSD-3-Clause licence.

Self-hosted Self-hosted
  • Content model is fully customisable rather than fixed
  • Twig templates or headless use through GraphQL
  • CMS and MVC application framework in one package
  • Permissive BSD licence
  • Needs a developer to build the front end
  • Not open source
  • Needs developer work to build custom sites
  • Requires your own server to run
Self-hosted Self-hosted
Closed source Open source
License not stated License: BSD-3-Clause
Not stated if an account is needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked October 2, 2026

Checked October 2, 2026

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