🆚 Craft vs. WordPress VIP

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Craft is four times more popular than WordPress VIP.
🌎 Craft is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
🌎 WordPress VIP is more popular in Brazil, Mexico, and India.

Craft

WordPress VIP

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.

WordPress VIP is a fully hosted enterprise solution based on WordPress, designed to support high-traffic websites with enhanced performance, security, and scalability.

It offers features like a global CDN, built-in caching, enterprise search, and compliance with standards such as FedRAMP, ISO/IEC 27001, and SOC 2 Type 2.

Headquarters

Bend, Oregon, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

craftcms.com #892,822

wpvip.com #497,721

Pricing

Free version ✔️

Team$279

Pro$399

Updates$99/year

Free version ❌

Standard$25,000/year

EnhancedCustom

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Craft CMS is 4 times more popular than WordPress VIP.

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 WordPress VIP is more popular in Brazil, Mexico, and India.

United States

United Kingdom

Netherlands

Belgium

Australia

Germany

Switzerland

Canada

Norway

New Zealand

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.

🔥 12nd most popular in the United States in the CMS category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Australia in the CMS category.
🔥 16th most popular in New Zealand in the CMS category.
⬆️ 22nd most popular in Italy 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 WordPress VIP is more commonly used on general news, entertainment, and sports sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Travel

General News

Entertainment

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Internet Services

Sports

Blogs/Wiki