🆚 Bitrix vs. Drupal

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Drupal is three times more popular than Bitrix.
🌎 Drupal is more popular in the United States, France, and Germany.
🌍 Bitrix is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.

Bitrix

Drupal

Type

Content management system

About

Bitrix is a popular Russian modular content management system based on PHP and MySQL.

It offers more than 40 built-in modules such as e-commerce, blogs, forums, and photo galleries, supports multilingual content, customizable access permissions, and REST APIs.

Drupal is a modular open-source content management platform written in PHP.

It provides over 50,000 modules for adding and customizing its functionality, flexible content types, multilingual support, RESTful API integration, and built-in user roles and permissions for managing complex websites.

Headquarters

Kaliningrad, Russia

Portland, Oregon, United States

Website

1c-bitrix.ru/products/cms/ #19,138

drupal.org #76,955

Pricing

Free version ❌

Start6,200 RUB

Standard17,900 RUB

Small business40,900 RUB

Business83,900 RUB

Enterprise1,699,000+ RUB

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Drupal CMS is 3 times more popular than Bitrix.

Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Drupal is more popular in the United States, France, and Germany, while Bitrix is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.

Russia

United States

France

Germany

United Kingdom

Belgium

Spain

Netherlands

Canada

Italy

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Russia in the E-Commerce category.
🥇 Most popular in Belarus in the E-Commerce category.
🥇 Most popular in Kazakhstan in the E-Commerce category.
🥇 Most popular in Uzbekistan in the E-Commerce category.
🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the CMS category.

🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the CMS category.
🥈 Second most popular in France in the CMS category.
🥈 Second most popular in Belgium in the CMS category.
🥈 Second most popular in Canada in the CMS category.
🥈 Second most popular in India in the CMS category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Drupal is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and marketing and merchandising, while Bitrix is more commonly used on online shopping sites.

Business

Education/Reference

Marketing/Merchandising

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Government/Military

Travel

Online Shopping

Public Information

Internet Services