No more typing reviews! Try our Samantha, our new voice AI agent.

Adobe Experience Manager vs Storyblok comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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 Web Content Management
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (3rd), Enterprise Social Software (4th), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (1st)
Storyblok
Ranking in Web Content Management
10th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Adobe Experience Manager is 8.9%, down from 11.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Storyblok is 0.8%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Adobe Experience Manager8.9%
Storyblok0.8%
Other90.3%
Web Content Management
 

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.
AG
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Headless content workflows have transformed how I design multilingual sites and iterate with clients
I think it is a perfect tool for me, but it would be nice to have some examples of best practices to set up content there, as I have a lot of freedom, and it is not really clear how to build it from scratch; I may run into problems if I do not know best practices right away. I think some tutorials on how to build from scratch content for a big website would be great. I think Storyblok is the best CMS out there; however, I would rate it a nine because there is still room for improvement, particularly with the documentation. I take off that one point because the documentation and best practices examples are missing.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Using Adobe Experience Manager has positively impacted our organization by improving our efficiency significantly."
"I believe that the primary feature of the product is the ability and extent to which it allows authors to modify, build and operate their website, page components, etc. that otherwise would require a lot more of developer work."
"The Asset module has received a lot of focus and is currently one of the best solutions for Digital Asset Management out there."
"Adobe Experience Manager is pretty stable."
"If you're looking for a .NET based CMS, do yourself a favor and go with an open source CMS."
"Adobe Experience Manager is a content management system, and we use it to create and manage a website."
"It helps us with analytics, application design for specific platforms, and enables us to easily create applications for iOS and Android."
"The most valuable features of Adobe Experience Manager include its capability to manage content and create reusable fragments."
"The return on investment helps me scale my business; without it, I would not even exist probably, so the return on investment is huge."
 

Cons

"As Adobe Experience Manager has a broad scope and a lot of use cases and features, it's a solution that requires some time and effort from you in terms of learning, especially if you're implementing it for different clients, which could be an area for improvement."
"The idea was to make it easy for the marketing teams, but it requires engineers who are hard to find and expensive to employ."
"The tech support from Adobe is slow to respond and takes a lot of time to fix product related bugs."
"The programming model could be improved, it's a monolithic solution and that's what we don't like."
"The licenses are very expensive."
"The pricing and setup cost for Adobe Experience Manager is a bit higher compared to different content management tools."
"I haven't seen any areas for improvement in Adobe Experience Manager as it's a full-fledged CMS tool, and Adobe is already working on enhancements for the solution. Adobe is working to make Adobe Experience Manager more valuable and easier to use for any user, even non-technical ones, through multiple components and templates. Day by day, Adobe provides the latest update to Adobe Experience Manager, and if my team needs any particular change, it just needs to be reported to the Adobe team. As Adobe Experience Manager has a broad scope and a lot of use cases and features, it's a solution that requires some time and effort from you in terms of learning, especially if you're implementing it for different clients, which could be an area for improvement."
"The solution's pricing and stability could be improved."
"I think Storyblok is the best CMS out there; however, I would rate it a nine because there is still room for improvement, particularly with the documentation."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's really costly."
"Users have to pay a yearly licensing fee to use the solution, which is highly-priced."
"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 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."
Information not available
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Web Content Management solutions are best for your needs.
893,244 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Retailer
6%
No data available
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise23
No data available
 

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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Storyblok?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was pleasurable; everything is clear right from the get-go, and if I need to change anything, it is free that I can use.
What needs improvement with Storyblok?
I think it is a perfect tool for me, but it would be nice to have some examples of best practices to set up content there, as I have a lot of freedom, and it is not really clear how to build it fro...
What is your primary use case for Storyblok?
My main use case for Storyblok is that it is a headless content management system for me. I set up content in Storyblok, and then I use the Storyblok API client to manage it. Storyblok is not deplo...
 

Also Known As

Adobe Day CQ5, Ektron Social Marketing, Episerver Content Cloud, Adobe CQ5
No data available
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Metra
Information Not Available
Find out what your peers are saying about Adobe, Microsoft, Wordpress and others in Web Content Management. Updated: April 2026.
893,244 professionals have used our research since 2012.