Compare Drupal 8 vs. Craft CMS

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.

Craft CMS is a new player in the PHP CMS field. It does not use Symfony components, but is a popular and more modern option for WordPress.

• 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

• Superb usability
• Focus on content management
• Clean code base

• 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)

• Limited adoption
• Not a part of a larger ecosystem (like Symfony)
• Coding style is a bit old school PHP