Kontent.ai vs. Sitecore.
Deciding between Kontent.ai and Sitecore? What’s on your checklist?
Freedom and flexibility for developers. An easy-to-use and fully governed editorial experience. True SaaS, fully secure, Kontent.ai helps global enterprises plan, create, and publish engaging content across digital channels.
What does true composability look like?
Performance, speed, and security
Assessing Sitecore’s monolith Platform DXP? With extraneous features you probably don’t need and won’t use, constant maintenance, and time lost to upgrades, what’s the real cost to the business? Kontent.ai’s lightweight frontend and globally distributed cloud-native service removes the burden of maintaining servers, upgrading software, or worrying about performance and security.
Real flexibility for developers
Trying to make sense Sitecore’s SaaS journey? If Sitecore XM, Experience Edge for XM, Content Hub, and Experience Edge for Content Hub feel less than flexible, there’s a reason. Genuine composability is not a future state. With Kontent.ai, give developers freedom to build right now, while supporting marketers with an intuitive editorial experience.
Regular, useful product releases
No split focus, no customers left behind. Customer feedback sits at the heart of Kontent.ai’s product roadmap. And regular product releases always improve the experience for end users. Check out the latest product updates and public changelog to learn how Kontent.ai is constantly evolving along with customer needs and CMS trends.
No vendor lock-in ever
A microservices architecture means working with the best. Without trade-offs, pressure, or worse, clunkiness. Sitecore’s acquisitions and preferred vendors can bring confusion about the choices you really have. Kontent.ai’s comprehensive API reference helps you seamlessly bring content into your modern tech stack.
A single source of truth
Even Sitecore reps can’t help recommending Kontent.ai for content hub use cases. By centralizing all content into a cloud-based repository that simply works, and plays well with others, it’s much easier to focus on creating content that’s consistent, compliant, and on-brand. Just one reason business users really, really like using Kontent.ai.
Experts in your corner
Our customer success services ensure Kontent.ai brings tangible value to your operations, always. Work closely with experts in content modeling, get practical guidance on migrating and integrating key systems, and ramp-up new business users quickly. 24/7/365 live chat, phone, and email support is efficient, accurate, and friendly. We do everything to get you back on track, not off the phone.
Developers have the freedom to focus on what they do best: creating great digital experiences with the latest technologies and their preferred frameworks and languages. Structured content is delivered via our fully-documented API.
Why developers & marketers prefer Kontent.ai over Sitecore
Marketers love the familiar doc-style collaborative experience and simultaneous editing. The transition to headless is no biggie – and the ability to create and update content independently from developer timelines makes all the difference.
Teams keep content consistent with governed processes and organized work spaces. In a Kontent.ai project, it’s easy to group content by areas of ownership, like regions, brands, or departments. Modular, structured content encourages reuse, extending the impact of everything that’s created.
A smooth transition to headless with Web Spotlight
Web Spotlight empowers business users to build and manage their websites within the context of each page, while all content remains free to be reused across any other pages, websites, or digital channels.
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The most organized operations with Collections
Collections empower enterprises to eliminate content silos and manage all their content in a single repository. This makes it possible to establish a unified content strategy that improves quality and consistency across departments and geographic regions.
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Key characteristics
Sitecore Content Hub
Product focus
Best-in-class CMS
All-in-one DXP
Content Marketing
Delivery model
Software-as-a-Service
On-premise/hosted
Software-as-a-Service
Technology Stack
Any
.NET/proprietary
.NET or Javascript
Product releases
Monthly
Annually
Irregular
Who Manages Upgrades
Kontent.ai
Customer or Partner
Sitecore
Integrations
Any third party or external
Primarily Sitecore
Primarily Sitecore
Channels
Multichannel
Mostly websites
Multichannel
Support
24x7 phone, email, and chat
Ticket System
Ticket System
Product focus
Best-in-class CMS
Delivery model
Software-as-a-Service
Technology Stack
Any
Product releases
Monthly
Who Manages Upgrades
Kontent.ai
Integrations
Any third party or external
Channels
Multichannel
Support
24x7 phone, email, and chat
Product focus
All-in-one DXP
Delivery model
On-premise/hosted
Technology Stack
.NET/proprietary
Product releases
Annually
Who Manages Upgrades
Customer or Partner
Integrations
Primarily Sitecore
Channels
Mostly websites
Support
Ticket System
Sitecore Content Hub
Product focus
Content Marketing
Delivery model
Software-as-a-Service
Technology Stack
.NET or Javascript
Product releases
Irregular
Who Manages Upgrades
Sitecore
Integrations
Primarily Sitecore
Channels
Multichannel
Support
Ticket System
“Coming from a monolith CMS and pseudo-SaaS content management world, Kontent.ai is a breath of fresh air. Because Kontent’s APIs are developer-friendly, we can finish projects faster and enable our clients’ marketing teams to go to market quickly. Plus, the user interface is really intuitive, allowing us to get meaningful work done in no time. ”