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Adobe Experience Manager vs Optimizely comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Adobe Experience Manager
Ranking in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (3rd), Web Content Management (1st), Enterprise Social Software (4th)
Optimizely
Ranking in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
14th
Average Rating
9.2
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Web Analytics (13th), Feature Management (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) category, the mindshare of Adobe Experience Manager is 12.5%, down from 20.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Optimizely is 3.7%, up from 3.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Adobe Experience Manager12.5%
Optimizely3.7%
Other83.8%
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
 

Featured Reviews

Hilax Chamberlain - PeerSpot reviewer
Digital Marketing Manager at Ford Motor Company
Centralized content management has unified our digital channels and delivers consistent experiences
Adobe Experience Manager offers enterprise-level digital assets management and very robust customization, brand value consistency, and omnichannel delivery. It saves development and maintenance time. The digital asset management and omnichannel delivery features have benefited my team by managing our digital assets, ensuring brand consistency, and enabling us to deliver customized content easily to our clients. Organizing and obtaining information from results is beneficial. Strengthening our online experience as a brand is valuable. Easy integration with other Adobe services improves productivity and provides a smooth experience. Adobe Experience Manager has positively impacted my organization by enabling component and page reuse, which reduces application size. It saves manual effort for maintaining all applications, improves traffic, and ensures consistency across all our applications. It provides better security, scalability, and makes our applications more robust.
it_user623373 - PeerSpot reviewer
AB Testing and Web Optimization Specialist at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's given us a powerful tool that's doesn't limit our test ideas by the confines of code we can or cannot use.
Ease of building the test via HTML, Java, and CSS. It's given us a powerful tool that's doesn't limit our test ideas by the confines of code we can or cannot use The thoroughness of results has helped our company make better decisions for our website. Decisions that help our customers with their…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Easy to work with the solution."
"The integration of customer behavior and website setup is impressive."
"I'm quite happy with the platform."
"Using Adobe Experience Manager has positively impacted our organization by improving our efficiency significantly."
"Adobe Experience Manager is one of the best enterprise-level content management and digital experience platforms available."
"It is a first-in-class product."
"If you're looking for a .NET based CMS, do yourself a favor and go with an open source CMS."
"Over the past two to three years, the organization has grown rapidly with Adobe Experience Manager as a best and supportive tool."
"Optimizely is a great product that has inspired a great community and is the standard for A/B testing."
"Optimizely can work for a lot more things than only testing; it is a pretty easy yet powerful tool."
"Customer service is excellent!"
"Customer service is wonderful."
"Customer service is the best in the testing industry; transparent support along with a very strong community."
"Dead simple A/B testing with no code knoweldge needed."
"ROI: Infinite! (Got 3X conversion improvement using suggestions given by the product during the free evaluation period)"
 

Cons

"Bug troubleshooting is challenging and requires developer expertise."
"The pricing and setup cost for Adobe Experience Manager is a bit higher compared to different content management tools."
"The licensing plus implementation and maintenance cost is very expensive, making it not suitable for small organizations, and the setup is very complex."
"Very very poor."
"A little bit of background knowledge of coding and website structure is required."
"I love DAM, but still think there are improvement areas."
"The integration of the product with other Adobe Marketing Cloud products could be improved."
"The licensing plus implementation and maintenance cost is very expensive, making it not suitable for small organizations, and the setup is very complex."
"Verifying goals could be easier."
"There were previously issues with experiments saving as expected in Classic."
"Does not allow multipage variants (i.e. allows only variants in elements inside one page)."
"When testing images or anything involving JavaScript or more than text, they can really slow down the load performance of a page."
"Exporting statistics provide more statistical data."
"Better communication with 3rd party implementation"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There's a free trial for one month for Adobe Experience Manager, which you can use for learning purposes, then, after the trial period, you'll need to purchase the license. Adobe offers a few plans for Adobe Experience Manager, but I'm unaware of how much my company is paying."
"It's really costly."
"Users have to pay a yearly licensing fee to use the solution, which is highly-priced."
"It's a costly solution. I would rate the price at two out of five on a scale from one to five, where one is the most expensive and five is the most competitive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Retailer
6%
Computer Software Company
11%
Construction Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise23
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Adobe Experience Manager?
I find the drag-and-drop form builder in Adobe Experience Manager to be mostly intuitive, especially for basic forms, but it has some quirks when things get complex. You can drag fields, text, drop...
What is your primary use case for Adobe Experience Manager?
I have been using Adobe Experience Manager for over three years, focusing on building scalable content solutions, managing workflow, and implementing AEM Forms for enterprise use cases. My main use...
What advice do you have for others considering Adobe Experience Manager?
In our setup, Adobe Experience Manager integrates with tools such as Adobe Analytics for tracking user behavior, Adobe Target for personalization, and backend APIs for CRM systems for handling form...
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Also Known As

Adobe Day CQ5, Ektron Social Marketing, Episerver Content Cloud, Adobe CQ5
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Sample Customers

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Sony, SalesForce, FICO, Trulia, ABC, Fox Interactive Media, The Guardian, CBS, Walt Disney Company, Clorox, Livestrong
Find out what your peers are saying about Adobe Experience Manager vs. Optimizely and other solutions. Updated: April 2026.
893,164 professionals have used our research since 2012.