Statamic vs Magnolia
Compare Statamic and Magnolia 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 Statamic and Magnolia have to say about their overall experience with the product.
Statamic's Key Strengths
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Magnolia's Key Strengths
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Statamic's Key Issues
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Magnolia's Key Issues
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What Marketers & Content Creators Say
Hear from the users who uses Statamic and Magnolia daily about their experience with the editors.
Statamic's Editorial Experience Highlights
What marketers love about Statamic's editor.
Magnolia's Editorial Experience Highlights
What marketers love about Magnolia's editor.
Statamic's Editorial Experience Issues
What marketers dislike about Statamic's editor.
Magnolia's Editorial Experience Issues
What marketers dislike about Magnolia's editor.
Mobile Editing
Find out how the platforms handle the mobile-first experience for the new generation of workforce on the move.
Statamic allows for a mobile-first design approach but does not explicitly support mobile-first content editing.
Magnolia CMS supports mobile-first experience with a focus on creating content on mobile devices.
"Focused on delivering modern UX designs with a mobile-first mindset."Source
"Start building responsive, mobile-first experience sites using web components with React, Angular or Vue."Source
"Focus then shifted to mobile first, omni-channel experience, personalisation, loyalty and analytics."Source
"Their rebuild of the software for a tablet and mobile first design."Source
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.
Statamic supports automatic linking of related blog content through the Wikilinks addon.
The feature of automatic related blog linking is unclear from the available documentation and sources.
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.
Statamic does not support automatic CTA linking; however, customizable link fields can enhance user-driven CTA management.
Magnolia offers AI features that assist in automatic content creation, but specific CTA linking is not detailed.
"Magnolia’s AI Accelerator brings flexibility and composability to AI in digital experiences, by supporting connections to any generative AI engines to speed up content creation."Source
"Magnolia equips you with powerful tooling and an easy to use interface so that you can work more effectively and launch experiences faster."Source
"This feature was experimental and relied on outdated and unmaintained libraries."Source
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.
Supports commenting via addons like Bluesky and Meerkat but not natively.
Magnolia CMS supports commenting with moderation, email notifications, and anonymous comments.
"This module offers commenting features as well as the possibility of liking or disliking comments. You can moderate comments or mark as author’s favourite."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 multi-site configurations but is not intended for true multi-tenancy applications.
Magnolia supports multi-tenancy, allowing agencies to manage multiple client sites with separate configurations.
"Multi-tenancy and the ability to share content assets - while also being able to configure access on a per-tenant basis - is crucial in today's..."Source
"With Magnolia's multi-site, multi-language and multi-tenancy capabilities, you can centrally manage your network of franchises, country sites or subsidiary websites."Source
"Using the Multisite module, you can set up and run multiple websites with different domains and languages from one Magnolia installation."Source
What Developers Say
Hear from developers who've integrated and built on Statamic and Magnolia about their experiences.
Statamic's DX Highlights
What developers love about building with Statamic.
Magnolia's DX Highlights
What developers love about building with Magnolia.
Statamic's DX Issues
What developers dislike about building with Statamic.
Magnolia's DX Issues
What developers dislike about building with Magnolia.
Content Modelling
Find out how developers model and manage their content with the platform with key highlights and limitations.
Statamic supports content modeling with over 40 unique field types and flexible blueprints.
"Over 40 Unique Fieldtypes... Organize fields to structure your content, forms, and other data types."Source
"It's completely up to you how to organize your content. You pick the field names, you pick how to organize entries into different collections."Source
"Build custom collections and blueprints to organize your content."Source
Magnolia CMS supports content modelling with customizable content types and properties.
"Magnolia allows you to manage all your content and media in one place. Flexible content modeling."Source
"A content model defines the structure and attributes of content for a specific project, including content types."Source
"The Magnolia Content Types module is a tool to define the content model in Magnolia, creating a shared understanding across the domains."Source
"A model definition describes the properties of a content type, including fields and relationships."Source
Custom React Components
Find out if the platform supports custom React components to go beyond the basic HTML components for content.
Statamic does not explicitly support custom React components in its content editor, focusing on Vue components instead.
"The examples below use Vue.js as the framework of choice, but these techniques will apply to most JavaScript frameworks."Source
"In order to use a custom Vue component, it needs to be registered. You should do this inside the Statamic.booting() callback."Source
"Statamic-Component is an addon to simplify the creation of separated components in Statamic that combines a bunch of logic."Source
Custom React components are supported through the Magnolia React Editor allowing dynamic content management.
"The Magnolia React Editor provides a lightweight, fully-featured library connecting React projects with the WYSIWYG authoring experience."Source
"Magnolia React Templating allows you to use React JSX Components in Magnolia templates."Source
"Components render content entered by editors in dialogs, supporting nested components."Source
Full Text Search
Find out if the platform supports full text search across multiple fields to help users find content quickly.
Statamic supports full-text search across multiple fields through customizable indexes.
"Help your visitors find what they're looking for with search. Use configurable indexes to configure which fields are important, which aren't, and fine-tune your way to relevant results."Source
"This addon allow you to use Elasticsearch as a search engine for your Statamic site. It is a driver for the builtin search system."Source
"Statamic takes a driver based approach to search engines. Drivers are interchangeable so you can gain new features or integrate with 3rd party services."Source
Fully supports full-text search across all content with real-time results customization.
"Magnolia’s search works using the Lucene algorithm where by default all properties mentioned in the index-rule receive a boost value of 1.0."Source
"The Find Bar allows you to search across all content search inside and outside Magnolia (federated search, enterprise search). The search covers all Magnolia and custom-content apps, assets and pages."Source
"It offers powerful full-text search across all your content and provides a starting point for many tasks."Source
Starter Kits
Discover starter kits and templates to help you get started with the platform.
Statamic offers various starter kits for quick project setup.
(Expand section to see a list of Statamic templates and starter kits.)
Magnolia CMS has several starter kits available for developers.
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Pricing & Plans
Compare the prices of Statamic and Magnolia.