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Craft CMS vs Umbraco: catalog facts
Craft CMSUmbraco
Freemium

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

Free

The CMS is free and open source under the MIT licence.

Self-hosted Self-hosted
  • Content model is fully customisable rather than fixed
  • Twig templates or headless use through GraphQL
  • Built on modern .NET and ASP.NET Core
  • Editor-friendly backoffice
  • Needs a developer to build the front end
  • Not open source
  • Requires .NET development skills to build sites
  • Marketing focuses on enterprise and sales-led services
Self-hosted Self-hosted
Closed source Open source
License not stated License: MIT
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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