Compare Contentful vs. BackBee

Contentful is a pure CaaS (Content as a Service) player. It comes from Berlin, and is currently the global market leader for decoupled hosted content management.

BackBee is a content management system from the company Lp Digital. The software is Open Source and released under the GPL3 License. BackBee uses multiple Symfony components for core functions.

• Widely used across industries
• No technical operations needed
• Free tier for hobbyists

• Great user experience with in-place editing
• Contemporary implementation without 
• Backed by a company

• Limited customisation capabilities
• Vendor lock in (though export is possible)
• Pricing for large amounts of content

• Limited adoption outside of France
• Custom implementation, Symfony in components
• Missing power user features like multilanguage and multisite