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Craft CMS vs Wagtail: catalog facts
Craft CMS	Wagtail
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	StreamField gives editors flexible structured content Multi-site and multi-language support
Needs a developer to build the front end Not open source	Building a site requires Django and Python knowledge No hosted version from the project itself
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: BSD-3-Clause
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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