Compare Drupal 8 vs. Contenta

Drupal 8 is a partial modernisation of the legacy Drupal CMS with a few parts of Symfony under the hood. Usability improvements were not the focus and to the end user Drupal 8 is very much like Drupal 7.

Contenta is a Drupal 8 distribution that aims to provide a headless, decoupled shell for Drupal 8.

• Based on stable legacy with critical APIs in place
• A large number of ready made modules (for Drupal 7)
• Large mass of developers brings stability for purchasers

• Open Source
• Built on a solid Drupal 8 foundation
• Fully customisable

• A custom architecture based on Symfony Components, proprietary module structure
• Usability of admin interface not very good and remains tightly coupled to Drupal
• Suspect to security issues due to custom implementation and popularity (see Drupalgeddon)

• Dependence on other projects
• Hosting complexity
• Limited templating capability