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Freemium

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

 Free

Free and open source under the GPL; you pay only for your own hosting.

Self-hosted Self-hosted
  • Content model is fully customisable rather than fixed
  • Twig templates or headless use through GraphQL
  • Very large library of themes and plugins
  • Visual block editor with live preview
  • Needs a developer to build the front end
  • Not open source
  • Needs a PHP and database server to self-host
  • Plugins and themes vary widely in quality and need updating
Self-hosted Self-hosted
Closed source Open source
License not stated License: GPL-2.0
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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