Compare Contentful vs. Joomla!

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.

Joomla! is one of the big three PHP CMSes. Currently it uses only a single component from the Symfony project. Joomla remains a strong contender with a large number of users and extensions.

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

• Large developer and user base
• Plenty of ready made extensions available
• Tried and tested basic concepts

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

• Administration can be confusing
• Lack of focus, tries to do everything
• Codebase is a mix of old and new