Content Collections vs XM Cloud
Compare Content Collections and XM Cloud for your content needs. Find out what actual users are saying about each product and which one is best suited for you!


What Users Say
See what users who have used Content Collections and XM Cloud have to say about their overall experience with the product.
Content Collections's Key Strengths
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XM Cloud's Key Strengths
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Content Collections's Key Issues
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XM Cloud's Key Issues
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What Marketers & Content Creators Say
Hear from the users who uses Content Collections and XM Cloud daily about their experience with the editors.
Content Collections's Editorial Experience Highlights
What marketers love about Content Collections's editor.
XM Cloud's Editorial Experience Highlights
What marketers love about XM Cloud's editor.
Content Collections's Editorial Experience Issues
What marketers dislike about Content Collections's editor.
XM Cloud's Editorial Experience Issues
What marketers dislike about XM Cloud's editor.
Mobile Editing
Find out how the platforms handle the mobile-first experience for the new generation of workforce on the move.
Wisp and Contentful support mobile-first experiences for content creation on mobile devices.
Sitecore XM Cloud allows mobile-first editing with low-code tools, but some features may require desktop for full functionality.
Automatic Content Linking
Find out if the platform supports automatic linking of related content to help user discover more content without additional manual effort from the marketer. This automatically create topical clusters of content and is essential for SEO.
The CMS does not support automated internal linking of related blog posts based on content similarity.
"You can define a collection from a set of data that is structurally similar."Source
"We can manually add blogs one by one into the section and include a button that directs to the relevant URL."Source
"Webflow Collections allow you to create groups of content but do not automate related content linking."Source
XM Cloud does not support automatic linking of related blog posts; linking must be done manually.
Automatic CTA Linking
Find out if the platform supports automatic display of Call-to-Actions using AI to help users take actions that are relevant to the content they are reading.
Content Collections does not support automated linking for CTAs; this feature is generally missing in most CMS products.
Sitecore XM Cloud does not support automatic CTA linking directly for AI-driven context matching.
Comments
Find out if the platform supports comments from your users to improve user engagement. This is often a great way to collect feedback and user emails.
Webflow CMS supports commenting via a paid add-on with built-in moderation features.
"Supercharge your Webflow CMS with comments that let people interact with your Collection content."Source
"However, this permission does not allow visitors to update existing items or their field values."Source
"When you create Collections in the Webflow CMS, you can add Collection items manually."Source
Sitecore XM Cloud does not have built-in commenting features for users to leave comments on content.
"You can add comments to projects, stages, or tasks when collaborating with other users."Source
"Sitecore XM Cloud focuses on site management, personalization, and performance, lacking user-facing commenting."Source
"In the ‘migrations’ I usually think about I’m often looking at an existing Sitecore customer trying to move to XM Cloud, but the fact is that there are a lot of options out there and Optimizely is pushing hard to pull those customers over to their SaaS CMS."Source
Multi-tenancy
Find out if the platform supports managing multiple clients or projects within a single account. This is useful for agencies, multi-client or multi-project scenarios.
Statamic supports multiple sites but is not intended for multi-tenant applications.
"I'm currently thinking of having a content collection called Organization, with a relation to an Admin User (User type, admin role)."Source
"Strapi (which you can trick into multitenancy but it's not out of the box and, unfortunately, I can't get it to work)"Source
"Payload has a multi-tenancy feature but requires significant setup."Source
"The multi-tenancy feature lets you segregate content in CRX based on organization."Source
"Statamic's multi-site capabilities are designed to manage a single site or site network with multiple localizations."Source
XM Cloud operates as a single-tenant instance; however, the underlying delivery environment supports multi-tenancy.
"XM Cloud runs the Experience Manager environment as a single-tenant instance. The delivery environment..."Source
What Developers Say
Hear from developers who've integrated and built on Content Collections and XM Cloud about their experiences.
Content Collections's DX Highlights
What developers love about building with Content Collections.
XM Cloud's DX Highlights
What developers love about building with XM Cloud.
Content Collections's DX Issues
What developers dislike about building with Content Collections.
XM Cloud's DX Issues
What developers dislike about building with XM Cloud.
Content Modelling
Find out how developers model and manage their content with the platform with key highlights and limitations.
Content Collections supports content modelling with customizable schemas and validation via Zod.
"Transform your content into type-safe data collections, providing useful utilities for data fetching and parsing."Source
"Content Collections uses a schema to define the fields of a collection. Computed fields can be added with the transform function."Source
"The schema will validate the title and summary fields, ensuring data integrity."Source
Sitecore XM Cloud fully supports content modeling with customizable data templates and flexible presentation components.
Custom React Components
Find out if the platform supports custom React components to go beyond the basic HTML components for content.
Payload CMS supports custom React components in collections, enabling rich content integration.
"Swap in your own React components to be used within this Collection."Source
"Decap CMS exposes two constructs globally to allow you to create components inline."Source
"The same object is also the default export if you import Decap CMS as an npm module."Source
"Learn how to embed HubSpot forms in ButterCMS using a custom React component."Source
Sitecore XM Cloud supports custom React components through registration, allowing rich interactions ineditors.
"In XM Cloud, developers can bring their own code (BYOC) by referencing an external code base that includes components."Source
"At the time of writing, XM Cloud Components are new and do not have a full feature set. Because of this, only standard React/Next.js components should be used."Source
"You can build a component by providing Sitecore managed data to a third party API like Google Maps API."Source
Full Text Search
Find out if the platform supports full text search across multiple fields to help users find content quickly.
Contentful supports full-text search across multiple fields, enhancing search capabilities.
"Full-text search is case insensitive and might return more results than expected. A query will ignore search tokens with less than 2 characters."Source
"In Contentful, full-text search terms are left anchored. This means that when you, for example, search for 'house,' we will convert it into the."Source
"In Contentful's GraphQL API you can do searching within different fields with collection filters. Equivalent to full-text searching."Source
"Contentful does include some intriguing full-text search capabilities out-of-the-box that searches across all fields."Source
Sitecore XM Cloud supports full-text search allowing users to search content across multiple fields.
"Searches for a full-text phrase within a value. For example, searching for 'apple pie' returns items for which the value is 'We made apple pie'."Source
"Sitecore Search is a cutting-edge, AI-powered, headless content discovery platform, empowering users to craft tailored and predictive search encounters."Source
Starter Kits
Discover starter kits and templates to help you get started with the platform.
Content Collections offers starter kits and templates through Acquia and Astro.
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Sitecore XM Cloud has various starter kits including Next.js and Angular templates.
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Pricing & Plans
Compare the prices of Content Collections and XM Cloud.