🆚 Backdrop CMS vs. Craft

Type

Content management system
Content management system

About

Backdrop is an open-source content management system that is a fork of Drupal 7 with usability improvements and new features.

Craft is a flexible open-source content management system written in PHP that supports MySQL or PostgreSQL databases and is built on the Yii framework.

It includes a templating system powered by Twig, a built-in GraphQL API and headless mode, hundreds of free and commercial plugins, custom fields and relationships, live preview, localization, and fine-grained user permissions.

Headquarters

New York, United States
Bend, Oregon, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️
Team$279
Pro$399
Updates$99/year

Categories

CMS › Rank #126
CMS › Rank #8

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Craft CMS is 59 times more popular than Backdrop CMS.
Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Craft is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, while Backdrop CMS is more popular in Israel.
United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Belgium
Australia
Switzerland
Germany
Norway
Canada
Austria

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Craft is more popular than Backdrop CMS in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Travel
Internet Services
Entertainment
Health
Art/Culture/Heritage
Online Shopping

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#134,529
#174,642
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Name
Rank
#1,009
#3,073
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See also

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