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Contentstack vs Liferay Digital Experience Platform comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Contentstack
Ranking in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
5th
Ranking in AI Customer Experience Personalization
8th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Liferay Digital Experience ...
Ranking in Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
3rd
Ranking in AI Customer Experience Personalization
27th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Web Content Management (6th), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) category, the mindshare of Contentstack is 2.2%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Liferay Digital Experience Platform is 10.6%, down from 11.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Liferay Digital Experience Platform10.6%
Contentstack2.2%
Other87.2%
Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)
 

Featured Reviews

Gilberto Gonzales - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project Manager at Honeywell
Flexible content workflows have transformed how our team updates seasonal messaging in real time
Overall, we have used Contentstack to great effect as our headless CMS. We have it connected to our custom UI, and it allows us to update basically in real time with updates reflecting on the site within seconds. The best features Contentstack offers are extremely flexible to our needs, meets all our use cases, easy to use, and the UI is very intuitive. It is easy for the whole team to manage content, and support is helpful and responsive. The flexibility and intuitive UI of Contentstack help meet all our use cases in our organization. The UI is very intuitive and user-friendly, making it very easy to use, even for new users who find it very easy to navigate. Additionally, Contentstack has continuous product improvement and enables us to build and architect content through the use of their easy-to-use software and user interface. Contentstack has positively impacted our organization by saving time deploying content and allowing our team members to manage content, thereby getting time to market faster. Precisely, we have been able to save 30 to 45 percent of our time. Also, having a rich partner network has improved the speed to adopt new functionality. The administration application is very user-friendly and does not require a lot of ramp-up for users, which has also decreased the time it takes to get content deployed.
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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

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Pros

"Contentstack has impacted my organization positively by helping us to deliver an application with a very good quality in terms of how it looks and feels."
"Contentstack has saved time and improved efficiency, and compared to other products, it is cost-effective and not expensive."
"The best feature Contentstack offers is that it is easy to use."
"Contentstack has created an impact of quick access to a non-tech person to add the properties right away and to work on their own personalized marketing campaigns and other aspects."
"Contentstack is a great tool; the service helped us stay on track with our headless launch and deliver on time, and we are beyond happy with the service provided and still being provided."
"The speed index has had a great impact; earlier we had something in the 60s on Google Page Insights, but now we are able to achieve 90-plus."
"The ease of use, which I mentioned as the best part, is especially highlighted by the clean UI and predictable UX of Contentstack, as there is not too much information on the screen at the same time that can confuse the users."
"Overall, we are really happy with Contentstack as it has made our content work faster, easier, and more organized."
"It has helped our client to quickly set up websites for their external clients."
"All the portlets and widgets are plugins, which provides flexibility to add or modify in multiple ways."
"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."
"If you are looking for a complete portal solution with security and ease of set-up, then go for it."
"Liferay enables you to stay with latest technologies with each version release."
"The product has helped our members and communities to freely connect, share knowledge, develop initiatives and share expertise in a secure environment."
"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."
"The look and feel and the user interface are great."
 

Cons

"We are more worried about the pricing. For example, somebody who is a tech person trying to integrate based on the events finds it a little bit more not so accessible."
"For improvement, I want to clear the cache for the pages, as Contentstack does not provide a default way of invalidating the cache."
"While Contentstack has great features, it is a bit expensive, and there is a learning curve involved for complex content models."
"I think Contentstack can be improved with a more appealing user design because it seems too bland."
"Contentstack is much more complex and advanced technology. I think there are still some UI improvements which can be done to simplify the work."
"It is good, but not great. For something like eighty percent of my set of tasks, I can scale based on the background we have with Contentstack."
"I noticed that sometimes it takes time, and I am not sure about the server side, as it may not be responding."
"The API, specifically the Content Delivery API, can be a bit tricky sometimes."
"Setup was not straightforward. The Community Edition was a bit complicated and they should fix the code."
"The current version is good, but one problem is with objects where the load takes much time if the records are increasing."
"I am having a hard time getting through the security scans."
"We tried the 'eat your own dog food' approach and used Liferay for our company's website, but Liferay just isn't meant to build websites."
"Social areas and capabilities need improvement."
"However, it is not very strong yet to be used for completely marketing-oriented implementations."
"The loading speed could be improved."
"The front-end technologies need improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Their pricing model should be modified to include per user options instead of just servers/cores, etc."
"It is a bit 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."
"Licensing costs can be very expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
18%
Construction Company
14%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise21
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise23
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Contentstack?
I do not have an idea about pricing, setup costs, or licensing as I am a developer and not the owner, so I do not have that information. High-level managers would know those details.
What needs improvement with Contentstack?
Contentstack can be improved, but I do not see anything that needs improvement because it is already a good CMS.
What is your primary use case for Contentstack?
My main use case for Contentstack is to update the content of websites. When working with a company that wanted to change the content of their website pages, I have changed the text, the assets, an...
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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Liferay DXP
 

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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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