CMS

Contentful describes itself as a Digital Experience Platform (DXP) using AI-driven analytics to help organizations manage, personalize, and optimize digital content across multiple channels and touchpoints.

Craft CMS is a content-first content management system built by Pixel & Tonic that prioritizes flexible content modeling over predetermined structures, for both coupled and headless implementations.

Directus is a self-hostable, open-source headless CMS and backend that connects to any SQL database and instantly generates REST and GraphQL APIs plus a no-code admin interface.

Drupal is an open-source, API-first content management system for building structured, composable digital experiences across websites and channels.

Ghost describes itself as "a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content" — an open-source blogging and newsletter platform with built-in membership and subscription tools.

Joomla is a free, open-source content management system built entirely by volunteers, used to build websites and online applications with multilingual and permission-based content control.

Sanity is a headless CMS and "content operating system" for structured content, letting teams model, manage, and automate content across web, mobile, and agentic platforms via APIs.

Squarespace is a website-builder platform ("A website makes it real") that lets people create, customize, and manage a website alongside integrated business tools like ecommerce, scheduling, and invoicing — without coding.

Storyblok is a headless CMS with a visual, drag-and-drop editor that serves developers with API-first architecture and marketers with intuitive content editing.

Strapi is an open-source, TypeScript-based headless CMS that lets developers build and manage content APIs without vendor lock-in, while giving editors a familiar admin panel.

Umbraco is an open-source, .NET-based content management system that lets developers and editors build and manage websites with flexible content modeling.

Webflow describes itself as "the agentic web platform for modern businesses" — a visual site builder combining full CSS/HTML design control, a built-in CMS, hosting, and AI-driven optimization tools.

Wix is a website-builder platform that lets users create professional websites quickly without coding skills, with hosting included.

Open-source publishing platform used to build and manage websites — from blogs to enterprise sites — via block-based visual editing, themes, and an extensible plugin system.