Liferay DXP vs Salesforce Experience Cloud

Liferay DXP is an enterprise platform for building digital experiences for business customers, consumers, and employees. Its modules cover content management, digital assets, commerce, sites, low-code tools, and personalization. It also supports headless delivery, experimentation, and experience analytics. Organizations can choose SaaS, PaaS, or self-hosted deployment, including on-premise or a customer’s cloud for self-hosted installations. Integrations include SOAP, REST, GraphQL, RSS, and proprietary APIs; identity options include SAML 2.0, OpenID, Kerberos, CAS, and OpenIM. Security controls include multi-factor authentication, LDAP validation, roles, fine-grained permissions, and restrictions on access to personal information. Liferay lists ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, and ISO/IEC 27018 certifications. The Free Tier costs nothing and requires a free activation key and acceptance of the EULA. Free trials include a 7-day SaaS option and a 30-day sandbox. Enterprise subscription prices are on request.

Salesforce Experience Cloud creates branded digital experiences for customers, partners, and employees, including account portals, partner sites, help centers, support communities, and custom sites. Organizations can build with no-code tools and templates, low-code tools, or programmatic development. Sites use Salesforce org data and can connect with Sales, Service, Marketing, Commerce, and Industries applications. Salesforce describes adding Agentforce agents to automate workflows, answer questions, and guide visitors. The platform is available through web, Android, iOS, and APIs. Mobile Publisher can turn Aura and LWR sites into branded Google Play and Apple App Store apps, requiring its own license. Experience Builder sites do not run in the Salesforce mobile app, but work in supported mobile browsers or branded apps. Security options include authentication, encryption, clickjack protection, Content Security Policy, and Lightning Locker. Listed plans include prices from $2.00 per month, with annual billing terms; other editions and terms vary.