🆚 Contao vs. MODX

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Content management system
Content management system

About

Contao is an open-source content management system built with PHP, Symfony, and MySQL.

It offers advanced editing features, a fine-grained permission system, responsive images, a full-text search engine, a flexible form generator, and built-in SEO tools.

MODX is an open-source content management platform and PHP application framework focused on performance and security.

It separates content from presentation using a tag-based template system, supports configurable and extendable caching, offers user groups and access contexts, content versioning and workflows, custom resource types and routing, and can be extended with extras from a community repository to add features such as e-commerce, SEO tools, and media management.

Headquarters

Lyss, Switzerland
Dallas, Texas, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️Open source
Cloud
Base
(10 GB storage)
$39/month
Pro
(30 GB storage)
$99/month
Business
(100 GB storage)
$349/month

Categories

CMS › Rank #10
CMS › Rank #36

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Contao CMS is 4 times more popular than MODX.
Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Contao is more popular in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, while MODX is more popular in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.
Germany
Russia
Austria
Switzerland
France
Ukraine
Belarus
United States
United Kingdom
Poland

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Contao is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and travel, while MODX is more commonly used on blogs and wiki sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Travel
Internet Services
Health
Education/Reference
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Entertainment
Public Information
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#13,564
#14,419
#14,638
#28,258
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Name
Rank
#31,762
#48,209
#61,183
#74,194
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See also

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