🆚 Craft vs. K2

📈 Craft is noticeably more popular than K2.
🌎 Craft is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
🌍 K2 is more popular in Italy, Greece, and Spain.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Type

Content management system

About

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.

K2 is a Joomla content management extension that replaces and extends the default article system with a structured content framework.

It provides extended item forms with fields for images, videos, galleries, and file attachments, nested categories, tagging, comments with spam filtering, a built-in media manager, and automatic resizing of uploaded images into six configurable sizes.

Headquarters

Bend, Oregon, United States

Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles

Website

craftcms.com #892,822

getk2.org #436,848

Pricing

Free version ✔️

Team$279

Pro$399

Updates$99/year

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Craft CMS is 1.6 times more popular than K2.

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 K2 is more popular in Italy, Greece, and Spain.

United States

United Kingdom

Netherlands

Germany

Belgium

Australia

Italy

Switzerland

Canada

Norway

Awards

🥉 Third most popular in Belgium in the CMS category.
🥉 Third most popular in Norway in the CMS category.
⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the CMS category.
⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the CMS category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Australia in the CMS category.

🥉 Third most popular in the Dominican Republic in the CMS category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Italy in the CMS category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Greece in the CMS category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Hungary in the CMS category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Turkey in the CMS category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Craft is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while K2 is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, and general news sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Travel

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Internet Services

Entertainment

Health

Online Shopping

Art/Culture/Heritage

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#1,009

#1,701

#1,762

#1,941

#3,073

Name

Rank

#2,744

#9,839

#12,671

#14,364

#14,754