🆚 CrafterCMS vs. Payload CMS
- 📈 Payload CMS is much more popular than CrafterCMS.
- 🌍 Payload CMS is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ CrafterCMS is particularly popular in Italy.
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About
CrafterCMS is a Java-based open-source headless content management system designed for enterprise-grade websites.
It features an API-first, decoupled architecture with REST and GraphQL support,
Git-based content repository with versioning, in-context editing and drag-and-drop authoring tools, built-in search, and extensibility via Groovy and JavaScript.
Payload is an open-source application framework and headless CMS built with Next.js that supports both self-hosting and cloud deployment.
It features automatic REST and GraphQL APIs from code-defined schemas, supports
MongoDB and
Postgres databases, and provides versioning and drafts, field-level localization, over 20 field types, granular access control, live preview, and a block-based layout builder.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⬆️ 34th most popular in the United States in the CMS category.
- ⬆️ 38th most popular in the United Kingdom in the CMS category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

