Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Drupal
The 20 closest content management system alternatives to Drupal, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 6 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Drupal? The closest matches are WordPress, Joomla and Moodle. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 15 ms
01 · Entity
About Drupal
Drupal drupal.org
Client Challenge
Wikidata: free and open-source web content management system
Summary by Claude
Official site of Drupal, a free and open-source PHP content management system, offering software downloads, contributed modules and themes, documentation, and a community issue tracker.
- Who it’s for
- Web developers, site builders, and organizations
- Business model
- Nonprofit; donations, memberships and sponsorships
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Drupal’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Drupal
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Drupal, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
Very close cos 0.939 - 02
Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!
Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.
Very close cos 0.937 - 03
Moodle challenge
e-learning platform
Very close cos 0.933 - 04
phpMyAdmin
database administration tool
Very close cos 0.923 - 05
open-source Internet forum package written in PHP
Very close cos 0.920 - 06
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Very close cos 0.917 - 07
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Very close cos 0.913 - 08
Laravel - The clean stack for Artisans and agents
Laravel is a framework for building modern web apps and AI agents. Expressive syntax, built-in tools, and everything you need to ship fast.
Very close cos 0.911 - 09
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Very close cos 0.905 - 10
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Very close cos 0.905 - 11
WordPress.com: Everything You Need to Build Your Website
Create your WordPress website with built-in hosting, premium themes, and powerful tools. No technical setup required. Start building today—free plan available.
Very close cos 0.905 - 12
MySQL
Open-source relational database management system
Very close cos 0.900 - 13
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Very close cos 0.899 - 14
web.dev
Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.
Very close cos 0.900 - 15
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Very close cos 0.899 - 16
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Very close cos 0.898 - 17
jQuery
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Very close cos 0.898 - 18 Very close cos 0.897
- 19
Composer
A Dependency Manager for PHP
Very close cos 0.897 - 20
Apache OpenOffice - Official Site - The Free and Open Productivity Suite
The official home page of the Apache OpenOffice open source project, home of OpenOffice Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw and Base.
Very close cos 0.897
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to drupal.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Drupal uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Drupal is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 mx include:amazonses.com include:servers.mcsv.net -all
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080042-BER
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 mx include:amazonses.com include:servers.mcsv.net -all
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=ZePKtfBRwyzfk4yeRCOiU1xgjIPOxn9JC3ioSM/…
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=ckxXdoIq27XGYE4ATbBYQOBeV7PTJWRxYe-PX…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=oA6bw_SaWeTbyrjWNmQG7adq0075ki6d4pKaNZ4aui0
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Drupal adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- Cloudflare · not on drupal.org 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on drupal.org 6/20
- Google Fonts · not on drupal.org 4/20
- nginx · not on drupal.org 4/20
- PHP · not on drupal.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on drupal.org 4/20
- Google Workspace · not on drupal.org 4/20
- WordPress · not on drupal.org 3/20
- Amazon SES 3/20
- Mailchimp 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on drupal.org 3/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on drupal.org 2/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on drupal.org 2/20
- Mailchimp Transactional · not on drupal.org 2/20
- SendGrid · not on drupal.org 2/20