Brightspot vs. Contentful

Start delivering exceptional digital experiences easily to any end-point with Brightspot CMS — no more development dependencies.Learn more here what makes Brightspot standout as the leading Contentful CMS alternative.
User-friendly, hybrid CMS
Make work effortless with Brightspot’s user-friendly and fully customizable hybrid CMS, ensuring you stay focused on the tasks that matter most, reducing developer dependency and enhancing productivity.
Before Brightspot CMS
  • Dependent on developers
  • Rigid publishing processes
  • Headless implementation only
  • Basic workflow functionality
  • Dependent on partners for services
Building with Brightspot
  • Intuitive user interface for any skill-set
  • Capabilities to support high volume publishing
  • Choose headless, decoupled or a blend of both
  • Fully customizable workflows to support your unique processes
  • Access to in-house and partner professional and managed service teams
Why choose Brightspot as your CMS alternative to Contentful?
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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
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Empower your team — and your tech
  • Flexible, personalized content types
  • Extensible hybrid architecture
  • Configurable user experience
  • API-first approach
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Create without complexity
  • Robust documentation, interactive Developer Portal and GitHub community
  • Intuitive, simplified publishing
  • Scalable multisite, localization and architecture flexibility
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A guiding light in your content journey
  • Expert in-house and partner migration and implementation teams
  • Dedicated 24/7 support team
  • Committed partner to your growth
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Sync your tech stack
Brightspot’s suite of ready-to-launch and custom integrations make it easy to connect your essential tools into one content hub.
Learn about some of the key differences between Contentful and Brightspot, and how a move to Brightspot as your CMS solution can drive your business forward with astonishing speed and flexibility.
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.
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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.
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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.
Our collaborative spirit spans a wide network of solution providers and agency partners. With Brightspot CMS as the foundation, we strive to deliver specialized expertise and services tailored to our valued customers’ unique needs.
See why the world’s leading brands trust Brightspot CMS

Ready to see how Brightspot compares to Contentful? Connect with one of our CMS experts today to learn more about the real-world differences between Brightspot and Contentful.

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