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
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Sites searched
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01 · Entity

About Drupal

Drupal drupal.org

Client Challenge

Wikidata: free and open-source web content management system

Top 10K · #2,717 English 6 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Drupal

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

WordPress.comOSFZoteroLaravelMediaWikiPHPphpBBphpMyAdminJoomlaWordPress

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Drupal

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Drupal, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    WordPress wordpress.org Top 100 English

    Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org

    Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

  2. 02
    Joomla joomla.org Top 10K English

    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.

  3. 03
    phpMyAdmin phpmyadmin.net Top 10K English

    phpMyAdmin

    database administration tool

  4. 04
    phpBB phpbb.com Top 10K English

    open-source Internet forum package written in PHP

  5. 05
    PHP php.net Top 1K English

    PHP

    PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

  6. 06
    MediaWiki mediawiki.org Top 10K English

    MediaWiki

    free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation

  7. 07
    Laravel laravel.com Top 10K English

    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.

  8. 08
    Zotero zotero.org Top 10K English

    Zotero | Your personal research assistant

    Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

  9. 09
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

  10. 10
    WordPress.com wordpress.com Top 100 English

    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.

  11. 11
    MySQL mysql.com Top 1K English

    MySQL

    Open-source relational database management system

  12. 12
    PostgreSQL postgresql.org Top 10K English

    PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database

    The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database

  13. 13
    web.dev Top 10K English

    web.dev

    Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.

  14. 14
    doxygen.org Top 10K English

    Doxygen homepage

    Source code documentation and analysis tool

  15. 15
    FreeBSD freebsd.org Top 10K English

    The FreeBSD Project

    free Unix-like operating system

  16. 16
    jQuery jquery.com Top 1K English

    jQuery

    jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

  17. 17
    getcomposer.org Top 10K English

    Composer

    A Dependency Manager for PHP

  18. 18
    Odoo odoo.com Top 1K English

    Open Source ERP and CRM | Odoo

    From ERP to CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Download Odoo or use it in the cloud. Grow Your Business.

  19. 19
    curl curl.se Top 10K English

    curl

    command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax

  20. 20
    Canva canva.com Top 1K English

    Canva

    online graphic design platform

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

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Competitors by meaning, stacks from the source. Data from public homepages and DNS.

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