Contentful vs HCL Digital Experience

Contentful is a web-based content platform with free and paid plans. It supports content localization, custom role permissions, webhooks, content preview, asset transformations, and both listed API types. The Free plan costs nothing, billed at $0 forever, and allows 10 users, 2 roles, 2 locales, 100K API calls per month, 50 GB per month of CDN bandwidth, and 1 Starter Space. Lite costs $300 a month, billed at $300 per month, with 20 users, 3 roles, 3 locales, 1M API calls per month, 100 GB per month of CDN bandwidth, and 1 Starter Space. Contentful was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

HCL Digital Experience is an enterprise platform for bringing content, data, applications and business processes together to build personalized experiences for customers, employees and partners. It includes web content and digital asset management, with tools for lifecycle management, editing, publication and versioning. Teams can expose content through WCM REST APIs for applications outside the platform, including mobile apps, commerce sites and standalone React applications. The personalization engine supports rules and campaigns and also has a REST API. The platform combines applications, content and assets into websites, with personalization and role-based access control. Documented integrations include HCL Commerce, HCL Connections, HCL Leap, HCL Volt MX Foundry, Huddo Boards, SharePoint and IBM MobileFirst. Deployment options include WebSphere Application Server infrastructure and Kubernetes containers, as well as cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments, including AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. Pricing is on request. A Free / Trial plan is listed with one content author, unlimited developers, sites and end users, one environment, and forum support; Full includes 24 x 7 support.