🆚 Contentful vs. ExpressionEngine

📈 Contentful is twice as popular as ExpressionEngine.
🌎 Contentful is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 ExpressionEngine is more popular in Croatia, Ireland, and Romania.

Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Contentful

ExpressionEngine

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.

ExpressionEngine is an open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL.

It includes custom channel fields, strict template separation, front-end editing through a floating control center called The Dock, the Multiple Site Manager for running separate websites from one installation, built-in member groups and permissions, and HTML, JSON, or XML output for headless delivery.

Headquarters

Berlin, Germany

Ormond Beach, Florida, United States

Website

contentful.com #85,511

expressionengine.com #480,193

Pricing

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

Lite
(1M API calls + 100 GB CDN bandwidth) $300/month

Enterprise Custom

Free version ✔️ Open source

Pro $249

Updates $49/year

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Contentful CMS platform is 2.4 times more popular than ExpressionEngine.

Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Contentful is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while ExpressionEngine is more popular in Croatia, Ireland, and Romania.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Canada

Netherlands

Australia

France

Sweden

Italy

Finland

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 Canada in the CMS category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Sweden in the CMS category.
⭐ 7th most popular in New Zealand in the CMS category.

⭐ 4th most popular in Croatia in the CMS category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Ireland in the CMS category.
⭐ 9th most popular in the United Kingdom in the CMS category.
🔥 11st most popular in Canada in the CMS category.
🔥 16th most popular in the United States in the CMS category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Contentful is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while ExpressionEngine is more commonly used on education and reference, and blogs and wiki sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Travel

Health

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Fashion/Beauty

Finance/Banking

Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#14

#25

#42

#77

#83

Name

Rank

#2,160

#7,459

#8,241

#20,392

#22,309