🆚 Contentful vs. Drupal

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Drupal is much more popular than Contentful.
🌎 Drupal is more popular in the United States, France, and Germany.
🌍 Contentful is more popular in the Cayman Islands.

Contentful

Drupal

Type

Content management system

About

Contentful is a commercial, cloud-based, headless content management system that structures content for use across multiple digital platforms via APIs.

It features a flexible content modeling framework, tools for AI-generated content and personalization, and a marketplace with over 100 pre-built integrations.

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

Berlin, Germany

Portland, Oregon, United States

Website

contentful.com #83,979

drupal.org #76,955

Pricing

Free version ✔️100K API calls + 50 GB CDN bandwidth per month

Lite$300/month

PremiumCustom

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Drupal CMS is 9 times more popular than Contentful.

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 Contentful is more popular in the Cayman Islands.

United States

France

Germany

United Kingdom

Belgium

Spain

Netherlands

Canada

Russia

Italy

Awards

⭐ 5th most popular in Finland in the CMS category.
⭐ 6th most popular in the United Kingdom in the CMS category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Sweden in the CMS category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Canada in the CMS category.
⭐ 7th most popular in New Zealand 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 Contentful is more commonly used on fashion and beauty sites.

Business

Education/Reference

Marketing/Merchandising

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Health

Government/Military

Travel

Public Information

Online Shopping

Internet Services