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Drupal vs October CMS

Drupal

drupal.org

October CMS

octobercms.com

Side by side

FigureDrupalOctober CMS
Price fromFree$26/mo
Free planYesYes
Free trialYes—
Open source——
WebYesYes
WindowsYes—
macOSYes—
LinuxYes—
APIYes—
Self-hostedYes—
Plans published13
Spec score · Content Management Systems9.0 (#10)7.7 (#124)
Spec score · Website Development tools8.9 (#3)7.6 (#25)
Custom content typesYesYes
Custom user rolesYesYes
Editorial workflowsYesYes
Founded20072014
Free planYesYes
Media libraryYesYes
Multilingual contentYesYes
Platform typehybridself_hosted
SEO toolsYesYes

Plans

Drupal

  • DrupalFree

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October CMS

  • One Free LicenseFree
  • Single License$39 a month
  • Unlimited Licenses$312 a year

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In their own words

Drupal

Drupal is content management software for building websites and applications. Drupal CMS is a ready-to-use platform for marketing teams, content creators, and site builders, built on Drupal 11 core. Included tools cover media management, SEO, AI-driven website building, consent management, analytics, search, and automatic updates. Drupal supports structured content, multilingual publishing, editorial workflows, custom user roles, and APIs for serving web, mobile, and other channels from one source. Thousands of modules, themes, and distributions can extend it, and it can connect with external services and organizational applications. Drupal identifies accessibility, API-first architecture, security, performance, and scalability as core capabilities. The software is free open-source software with no licensing fees, but self-hosting and technical setup are required. Linux or a similar system is recommended for hosting; Windows is supported only for development, not production. Drupal CMS offers temporary browser-based trial sites. After setup, Drupal CMS itself is not updated, although installed modules and themes are updated like other Drupal sites.

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October CMS

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