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Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) vs Liferay Digital Experience Platform comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Acquia Digital Experience P...
Ranking in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Liferay Digital Experience ...
Ranking in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Web Content Management (6th), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (3rd), AI Customer Experience Personalization (24th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) category, the mindshare of Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) is 2.8%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Liferay Digital Experience Platform is 9.5%, down from 12.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Liferay Digital Experience Platform9.5%
Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP)2.8%
Other87.7%
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
 

Featured Reviews

Talish Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Drupal Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Marketers have gained low‑code control and now build personalized journeys that boost conversions
One of the improvements needed for Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) involves platform sizing and pricing transparency, which is the most consistent complaint I have seen across various clients. The way Acquia sizes its platform for customers is described as ambiguous and often results in penalties after doing business. Users also note that overall cost can be high and limits accessibility for smaller businesses. Additionally, the Site Factory provisioning environment takes a lot of time, and often more environments are needed than what is available by default, requiring you to go through support and sales processes. For teams handling CI/CD pipelines and needing fast environment spin-ups, this lag is a real bottleneck. Support gaps exist since support follows standard SLAs, and sometimes there are different difficulties when dealing with critical issues due to the lack of a 24/7 available team.
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E-Governance Head at Creant Technologies
Optimizing digital presence with customizable design and seamless integration
The main benefits that Liferay Digital Experience Platform brings to the table are numerous. First is rapid application development and many features. Features such as content management and document management make your life easy; workflow management is also present. Workflow can be designed and derived. Form development and everything is very smooth and easy to deliver to the end customer, and you can find many features in one box. You have blogs, wikis, and everything with out-of-box functionality. My experience with actionable insights is positive; they help in refining content strategies. The content creation is helpful. For external content creation, I use headless CMS APIs for Liferay Digital Experience Platform, and headless APIs for content creation are also available. My thoughts on the integration capabilities are that integration is seamless. You have headless APIs where you can integrate seamlessly with any other application such as LDAP or SSO, or you can also integrate with different external systems. You have an SAP connector; everything is available. Liferay Digital Experience Platform's open source flexibility has helped in customizing functionalities for the specific needs of my customers as it is a highly flexible application that can be optimized. My advice for other organizations considering Liferay Digital Experience Platform is that if it's available, we need to improve on the performance, which is currently what we are seeing. Otherwise, earlier Service Builder was acceptable. On a scale of 1-10, I rate Liferay Digital Experience Platform a 9.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) has positively impacted my organization by improving speed to market, where opening up a new country allowed us to put the content together very rapidly, reducing the time from a good three months previously down to six to eight weeks."
"Overall, Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) helps improve operational efficiency, release confidence, and customer experience."
"Building pages using Site Studio components was very easy, and using Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) for our website and project was really great."
"Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) has positively impacted my organization primarily through its ease of use, making it easier to generate content and pages, especially from a marketing perspective, so entry-level people can access it and utilize it as well as advanced users, appealing to a range of people."
"Before using Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP), we might manage two projects a year, but now we can deliver four to five projects and provide more features for each client."
"One of the platform's key strengths is its ability to unify content management, personalization, and customer data into a single experience layer, enabling my team to build highly tailored digital journeys across multiple channels for enterprise websites like the one I work for, as well as e-commerce integrations and customer portals."
"Content Hub provides a centralized way to manage content."
"Since moving to Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP), we have saved approximately three times the amount of time in deployment and site creation processes."
"It's an enterprise-level solution that is ready to use almost immediately and users can immediately share and collaborate once they've installed the application."
"Liferay enables you to stay with latest technologies with each version release."
"It’s fast, easy, scalable, and stable with a competitive price."
"If you are looking for a complete portal solution with security and ease of set-up, then go for it."
"CMS lets business users create and manage web content while maintaining revisions, and Liferay enables users to be independent of developers and to manage content within the portal."
"Compared to other big players in portal platforms, Liferay's pricing is very competitive, and remember, the latest version of Liferay is not just a portal framework, but it is a digital experience platform which offers way more."
"It has a built-in WCMS (web content management system) and provides the ability to develop complex portlet-based web applications, which is valuable because it is Java/Java EE-based and open source."
"Liferay is highly scalable and more complex than Drupal."
 

Cons

"We faced loading issues, performance issues, and some kind of optimization issues on some pages."
"I have heard it was a little high, but I do not have the specific details."
"Additionally, the licensing and pricing may challenge small organizations with limited budgets; offering more flexible pricing models or feature packages could make the platform more accessible to a wider range of businesses."
"One of the improvements needed for Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) involves platform sizing and pricing transparency, which is the most consistent complaint I have seen across various clients."
"Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) could be improved by allowing more customization options, as it currently has limitations with hooks in its core Drupal system that prevent us from making custom modules easily."
"One area for improvement is the way Acquia sizes their platform for customers, which can be quite ambiguous and often results in penalties after doing business."
"Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) can be improved because sometimes it takes a lot of time."
"One area where Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) can be improved is the cost structure, as it's quite an expensive solution for what it is."
"The documentation could be better."
"As for now, Liferay DXP was just released, so there are many issues."
"If you are a basic web developer or you have a very small organization, I don't think I would work with it."
"Major upgrades switch the Liferay framework core structure dramatically in EVERY occasion."
"It lacks true multi-tenant support."
"The plugins should be more affordable."
"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
"The integration and configuration need to be simplified."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It is a bit expensive."
"Their pricing model should be modified to include per user options instead of just servers/cores, etc."
"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
"The product is neither cheap nor expensive. What Liferay Digital Experience Platform offers at its current price can be considered something that is worth the money."
"It's an open-source structure. Other costs are for professional services to integrate Liferay to other existing systems."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Energy/Utilities Company
16%
Outsourcing Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise23
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP)?
Regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing, since we are using an evaluation rather than full versions, the pricing is obviously quite high, so we are not making that commitment because of the pr...
What needs improvement with Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP)?
Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) can be improved in several ways. I believe there is still meaningful room for improvement in several areas. One area where I believe improvement is possible...
What is your primary use case for Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP)?
I have been using Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) for approximately six to seven years in my institute and across a few collaborative research and digital transformation initiatives. My ma...
What is the best feature of Liferay?
A tricky question because it'd depend on what your focus will be on Liferay as a digital experience platform. I mean, if for me the experience management is the best feature, for someone with diff...
Is Liferay suitable for complete beginners?
A non-developer here, and frankly, a little bit of a tech beginner in general. My company branched out into digital experience a bit later than we should have but picking Liferay as a DXP was one o...
What is Liferay’s capacity for backup?
Yes, I think you can trust the cloud feature of Liferay pretty well. It gives you the option to back up your data as well as restore it and that's pretty vital for any digital experience platform....
 

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Sample Customers

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Adidas, Carrefour, Cisco Systems, Danone, Fujitsu, Lufthansa Flight Training, Siemens, Société Générale and the United Nations
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