Brightspot vs. ArcXP
Start delivering exceptional digital experiences on day one with Brightspot CMS — no more compromising on customization and flexibility. Learn more here what makes Brightspot standout as the leading Arc XP CMS alternative.
Customizable, fast, all-in-one CMS
Make work effortless with zero distractions with Brightspot’s fully customizable user experience, ensuring you stay focused on the tasks that matter most, reducing the risk of mistakes and enhancing productivity.
Before Brightspot CMS
- Rigid user-interface
- Steep learning curve
- Required third-party integration support
- Basic content types and templates
- Required multi-tenant hosting
Building with Brightspot
- Tailor-made user experience
- Intuitive user interface for any skill-set
- Custom integrations built for you, plus 50+ pre-built plug-ins
- 100+ customizable content types and templates
- Your choice of single- or multi-tenant hosting
Why choose Brightspot as your CMS alternative to ArcXP?

Get started in a flash
- 100+ ready-to-use modular content types and templates
- Dynamic front-end design system
- All-encompassing toolkit for authoring, editing and working together
See why the Los Angeles Times chose Brightspot over ArcXP
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The team at Brightspot has been a great partner for us, and the product has been pivotal to streamlining our editorial operations across our CMS, assignment desk and asset management. They provide an extremely flexible and scalable solution that has evolved with us to meet the needs of our newsroom, audience and customers.
Chief Technology Officer, Los Angeles Times

Empower your team — and your tech
- Flexible, personalized content types
- Extensible hybrid architecture
- Configurable user experience
- API-first approach

Create without complexity
- Robust documentation, interactive Developer Portal and GitHub community
- Intuitive, simplified publishing
- Scalable multisite, localization and architecture flexibility
The world’s leading brands trust Brightspot
Ready to see how Brightspot compares to Arc XP? Connect with one of our CMS experts today to learn more about the real-world differences between Brightspot and Arc XP.
Brightspot is proud to be recognized as a Representative Vendor in the 2024 Gartner® Market Guide for Web Content Management.
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Hear what our users are saying.
★★★★★
Very polished and well-maintained platform that is also very customizable and supports an enterprise scale. The leadership, product and engineering teams understand how to extract business objectives, provide recommendations and execute a project plan extremely well.
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The turnaround time to spin up products is quick and it integrates well with our existing systems seamlessly. We were able to expedite some projects on a very tight timeline because of Brightspot.
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Great tech and took on an enormously complex challenge with us. The performance of the resulting website was exceptional!
Get more than a CMS
Say goodbye to the pain of migration, maintenance, hosting and innovation on your own. Our in-house teams and mighty partner ecosystem will help you bid farewell to those worries, get you live quickly and support you as your business scales.
Your license includes access to our managed services team that handles updates, upgrades, security patches, storage, bandwidth and more — so you don’t have to.
Creative services
Our design team works with you to create fully customized and engaging multiplatform experiences to meet unique business challenges, along with comprehensive content strategy audits, analysis and recommendations.
Our implementation approach is tailored to exactly what you need. Whether you need our full support or have an in-house development team to involve, our white-glove service team ensures a smooth delivery.
If you prefer working with a partner, we can easily do that. To get the best outcome we can for you, we have prioritized building relationships with top-tier technology partners who hold the same commitment to excellence as we do.