🆚 Craft vs. Kentico

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Craft is three times more popular than Kentico.
🌎 Craft is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
🌍 Kentico is more popular in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Turkey.

Craft

Kentico

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.

Kentico is a commercial content management system built on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server.

It provides content personalization tools, drag-and-drop page and email builders, analytics dashboards, digital asset management, a unified API architecture, and offers headless capabilities on its Advanced license tier.

Headquarters

Bend, Oregon, United States

Brno, Czech Republic

Website

craftcms.com #892,822

kentico.com #102,023

Pricing

Free version ✔️

Team$279

Pro$399

Updates$99/year

Free version ❌

Self-managed Standard$1,050+/month

Self-managed Advanced$2,110+/month

Cloud Standard$2,050+/month

Cloud Advanced$2,610+/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Craft CMS is 3 times more popular than Kentico.

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 Kentico is more popular in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Turkey.

United States

United Kingdom

Netherlands

Australia

Belgium

Switzerland

Germany

Canada

Norway

Czech Republic

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.

⭐ 4th most popular in the Czech Republic in the CMS category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Ireland in the CMS category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Australia in the CMS category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Canada in the CMS category.
⭐ 8th 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 Kentico is more commonly used on health, finance and banking, and government and military sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Travel

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Health

Finance/Banking

Internet Services

Online Shopping

Entertainment