Magnolia vs. Storyblok

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Magnolia
Score 8.1 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Founded in Switzerland in 1997, Magnolia is a CMS used to build composable digital experiences. Magnolia helps create fully integrated customer experiences and speeds up digital delivery of content. Magnolia boasts 480 enterprise customers, thousands of Community Edition deployments, and more than 200 certified Magnolia Partners around the world. They further state that their enterprise customers include Sanofi, Generali, the Atlassian, The New York Times, Harley Davidson, and Union…
$3,500
per month
Storyblok
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
Storyblok helps teams to tell their stories and manage their content for every use-case: corporate websites, e-commerce, helpdesks, mobile apps, and screen displays. Storyblok features: Visual Editor: Live preview changes made on a website Component approach: Nestable content bloks make content management easy. Headless / API: Access data through its APIs Boasting customers in nearly every industry and country, Storyblok states they help thousands of…
$0
Free with 1 Seat
Pricing
MagnoliaStoryblok
Editions & Modules
DX Core
$3500
per month
DX Cloud
$6000
per month
Starter
$0
Free with 1 Seat
Growth
$99
per month Includes 5 team member seats
Growth Plus
$349
per month Includes 15 team member seats
Enterprise
$3,299
per month 30 users included
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
MagnoliaStoryblok
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
MagnoliaStoryblok
Features
MagnoliaStoryblok
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Magnolia
8.0
Ratings
1% below category average
Storyblok
6.7
Ratings
18% below category average
Role-based user permissions8.00 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Magnolia
8.1
Ratings
7% above category average
Storyblok
6.5
Ratings
15% below category average
API8.50 Ratings4.70 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language7.70 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Magnolia
8.0
Ratings
4% above category average
Storyblok
6.4
Ratings
19% below category average
WYSIWYG editor8.50 Ratings5.20 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.40 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Admin section8.00 Ratings5.20 Ratings
Page templates8.90 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Library of website themes7.00 Ratings4.20 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design8.50 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Publishing workflow7.50 Ratings6.20 Ratings
Form generator6.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Magnolia
7.5
Ratings
2% above category average
Storyblok
6.1
Ratings
19% below category average
Content taxonomy7.60 Ratings4.20 Ratings
SEO support7.20 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Bulk management7.60 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions7.90 Ratings5.20 Ratings
Community / comment management6.90 Ratings00 Ratings
User Ratings
MagnoliaStoryblok
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
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7.6
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Likelihood to Renew
8.1
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Usability
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Performance
8.5
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
MagnoliaStoryblok
Likelihood to Recommend
If you need a business CMS that brings along a good amount of features and also give you the chance to develop features on your own, Magnolia would be a good choice. Even if you have not the fitting infrastructure around, Magnolia provides you different ways like SAAS oder PAAS. If you have to review your code our have any problems the team behind will helps in a short time. Without using the connectors it is not so easy to connect special functionalities like Marketing tools or optimization tools. The DAM is very slow if you have an huge amount of documents and pictures to store for your website - you have to add an external DAM.
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The collection of multiple reports from different integrated tools and the ability to provide effective predictive analytics and the real-time data results production capability is profitable. Social media platform integration functionalities allow the user to easily manage various marketing content across different platforms and the content accessibility is amazing.
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Pros
  • Use of YAML to define content models with code.
  • Versatility of defining actions for custom handlers.
  • Reloading classes when code is modified in a local dev environment is nice. While it doesn't seem to work when changes extend beyond the method body (i.e., adding methods), it remediates the pain of long startup times.
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  • Very easy to generate project documents
  • Obtaining the best data insights across cloud services
  • Easy creating various content
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Cons
  • As a developer the learning curve is long, you can start developing relatively quickly but getting to know the platform in depth takes time.
  • Having a history of modifications not only at the page level but also at the Content Apps level would be very useful.
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  • Update can be improved
  • Interface configuration
  • Analyzing multiple gathered data content
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Likelihood to Renew
Magnolia is an innovative CMS, for example it is possible to use the ipad to manage the contents. Magnolia’s team works hard to improve the product; the community is small but active and the support for the enterprise version is good. Magnolia’s team asks the users what they think and what they need, and the new functionalities planned for Magnolia 5.3 are very exciting for example the content personalization.
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Usability
There are a ton of small things that could make this CMS great Off the top of my head... 1) Better navigation between a component and its corresponding node in the jcr ( devs often have to flip between a page and a spot in the jcr even though there could be a button to take you from a page/component in the pages app to its location in the JCR) 2) Why does a content editor need to open the page to edit the page properties? They could just as easily edit the dialog from the tree view if they have many pages to touch, and it would save them time by not having to render the page.
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Performance
It's a lean and performant platform. You don't need to put reverse proxy servers in front of it to speed it up (although that does make it go even quicker) as there are various layers of caching built in to the application. While it's a little cryptic, the internal caching system is actually quite configurable and can be tuned to the right sort of content.
Often what tends to surprise many an IT manager is that you can run it on relatively modest hardware. We've often been met with "are you sure ?" but the reality is that it doesn't need a whole lot of horsepower.
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Support Rating
You always get an answer based on your SLA. But you always get a solution. That's the successfactor in this case. To often i was frustrated about people in a company without even a clue what there product is about or how to solve a problem. Magnolia's Support Team does a very good job and try to help you in most of the cases
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Alternatives Considered
Magnolia DXP offers similar or more capability compared to the other platform, while much easier to implement. For example, Adobe Experience Manager tend to be more monolithic in nature, heavier footprint compared to Magnolia. Hence when implementing a DXP, it is much faster to build using Magnolia, at a much lower TCO. The other platform like Kontent.ai and Strapi are pure headless platform and offer lesser features. What really make Magnolia different is the APAC team, who are all out to support their client in the implementation, ensuring their client maximize their platform and the project implementation is successful. This is some thing that is not experienced when using other platform(s)
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Return on Investment
  • We have placed web content management in the hands of the organisation than retained it within the technology team.
  • We were able to quickly move to MVP and release and we are now focussed on moving the platform forward at some pace whilst not being burdened with BAU work inside the technology team as so much as self-service to trained organisational users
  • The use of the SAAS/PASS has inbuilt business resiliency as specialist work and aspects such as underlying security is done by Magnolia and we are able to focus internal effort on building out the platform.
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  • Clear and reliable data reports generation is very easy.
  • Data accessibility Storyblok is amazing.
  • Marketing management across different platforms
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ScreenShots

Magnolia Screenshots

Screenshot of the Magnolia App Launcher, used to switch between workspaces and manage pagesScreenshot of the customer experience. This brings together content and audiovisual digital assets to form more compelling digital experiences.Screenshot of global search that brings relevant content, no matter where it resides.Screenshot of customizing the ecommerce experience.Screenshot of Magnolia Orchestratem where users can manage and track campaignsScreenshot of the WYSIWYG page editor

Storyblok Screenshots

Screenshot of The Storyblok DashboardScreenshot of Live Editing with StoryblokScreenshot of Rich text experience using Storyblok