Compare Reservoir vs. Contentful

Reservoir is a Drupal 8 distribution focused on decoupled content management. It is developed by Acquia, the company providing enterprise grade Drupal hosting and solutions.

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.

• Open Source CaaS option
• Corporate backing from Acquia
• Flexibility and extensibility

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

• A young, unproven product
• Complexity of hosting (compared to pure CaaS)
• Unable to leverage full Drupal ecosystem

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