Contentful vs. Pimcore

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Contentful
Score 6.2 out of 10
N/A
Contentful is a cloud based CMS solution that provides the ability to manage content across multiple platforms.The editing interface allows for managing content interactively and provides developers the ability to deliver the content with the programming language and template framework of their choice.
$300
per month
Pimcore
Score 8.5 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
The Pimcore Platform™ is an enterprise open-source software for managing any digital data and customer experiences across any channel or device. Pimcore is used to keep single, harmonized, up-to-date versions of any corporate master data, manage, consolidate, share and transform digital media assets, and deliver personalized, headless experiences on any channel. The solution boasts users among more than 110 000 companies in 60+ countries. Pimcore solutions at a…N/A
Pricing
ContentfulPimcore
Editions & Modules
Lite
$300
per month
Community
Free
Enterprise
Custom
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ContentfulPimcore
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
ContentfulPimcore
Features
ContentfulPimcore
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
7.3
Ratings
10% below category average
Pimcore
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
8.0
Ratings
5% above category average
Pimcore
-
Ratings
API8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
7.7
Ratings
0% below category average
Pimcore
-
Ratings
WYSIWYG editor7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Admin section8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Page templates7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Library of website themes7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing workflow8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Form generator7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
8.0
Ratings
8% above category average
Pimcore
-
Ratings
Content taxonomy8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
SEO support7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk management7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Community / comment management9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
ContentfulPimcore
Small Businesses
ManageWP
ManageWP
Score 10.0 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
RWS Tridion Sites
RWS Tridion Sites
Score 9.0 out of 10
Image Relay
Image Relay
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
RWS Tridion Sites
RWS Tridion Sites
Score 9.0 out of 10
Informatica MDM & 360 Applications
Informatica MDM & 360 Applications
Score 8.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
ContentfulPimcore
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(0 ratings)
9.7
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ContentfulPimcore
Likelihood to Recommend
Coming from WordPress, Contentful feels like content management as it should be. There's no clutter to get rid of, you can simply start building from scratch, and the end product is perfectly tailored to your or your clients needs.
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Pimcore is especially suitable for an organization that has a complex data model and processes that cannot be met easily with out of the box systems. It is especially helpful where data is lying in multiple legacy systems and needs complex integrations with these systems. It may not be the best choice for someone looking for and out of the box system with predefined features.
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Pros
  • Contentful provides organized, flexible data models with support for a variety of data types and content editors (e.g. WYSIWYGs, form fields, raw text areas).
  • Contentful has great built-in versioning features with history and draft states so it's easy to make updates and revert when needed.
  • Contentful has an intuitive user interface and good support for multiple spaces (which can be helpful for companies that need separate projects for dev/staging/production).
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  • Pimcore is fully opensource and based on leading Symfony, the leading PHP framework. It has a well-developed partner network and community support.
  • In contrast to other systems that have a quite rigid architecture Pimcore is designed as a platform for developers. It can be used to model complex data architecture with ease and develop features tailored to customer needs.
  • It provides a fully integrated platform for Product Information Management, Digital Asset Management, and Enterprise Content Management. This ensures there is no duplication of assets and content and data across multiple systems.
  • All PIM features are also available through a REST-based Web Service allowing easy integration with other applications.
  • In addition to PIM, DAM and WCM features it also provides a robust eCommerce platform.
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Cons
  • Preview of changes prior to publishing
  • The ability to use a spell check plug-in when working on content (it doesn't work well with Grammarly)
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  • PimCore should make the Video Training free so that it could become more popular among the mass
  • Installation is but tedious for new and seasoned developer. If something like wordpress kind of installer can be developed ... that would be awesome
  • Developer documentation could have been better
  • With growing popularity MACH architecture, I would suggest PIMCore team for making it headless first platform
  • Make single click setup over Digital Ocean, Linode and other cloud provider
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Alternatives Considered
Contentful was affordable and much simpler than the Java based systems and preferred over a PHP solution
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PIMCore is Digital Platform making it single source of truth for many upstream and downstream system. Akeneo is just PIM and its doing PIM job properly but PimCore is much more than this. AEM is too costly and can't be affordable for many small and mid size companies
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Return on Investment
  • There was no negative impact as such.
  • Positive impact is increase in sales.
  • More work is delivered due to reusability and other features within a time and less manual effort.
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  • Increased efficiency
  • Reduced cost
  • Reduced time to market
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