🆚 Kentico vs. Plone

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Kentico is three times more popular than Plone.
🌎 Kentico is more popular in the United States, the Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Plone is more popular in Germany, Belgium, and Spain.

Kentico

Plone

Type

Content management system

About

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.

Plone is an open-source enterprise content management system built with Python and the Zope application server for managing scalable and content-rich websites.

It features a React-based frontend editor, workflow-driven content management with versioning and collaboration, a REST API for headless delivery, multilingual support in over 30 languages, and enterprise authentication integrations such as LDAP, Active Directory, OpenID, and Shibboleth.

Headquarters

Brno, Czech Republic

Fishers, Indiana, United States

Website

kentico.com #102,023

plone.org #512,107

Pricing

Free version ❌

Self-managed Standard$1,050+/month

Self-managed Advanced$2,110+/month

Cloud Standard$2,050+/month

Cloud Advanced$2,610+/month

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Kentico CMS is 2.7 times more popular than Plone.

Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Kentico is more popular in the United States, the Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom, while Plone is more popular in Germany, Belgium, and Spain.

United States

Czech Republic

United Kingdom

Australia

Germany

Belgium

Canada

Spain

Italy

Netherlands

Awards

⭐ 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.
⭐ 9th most popular in Turkey in the CMS category.

⭐ 6th most popular in Belgium in the CMS category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Brazil in the CMS category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Spain in the CMS category.
🔥 14th most popular in Austria in the CMS category.
🔥 17th most popular in Italy in the CMS category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Kentico is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and finance and banking, while Plone is more commonly used on public information sites.

Business

Education/Reference

Finance/Banking

Marketing/Merchandising

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Government/Military

Travel

Public Information

Internet Services