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Craft vs Statamic: What are the differences?

Developers describe Craft as "A CMS built to do one thing and do it well: manage content". Craft is a content management system (CMS) that’s laser-focused on doing one thing really, really well: managing content. On the other hand, Statamic is detailed as "Build simply. The flat file CMS built for developers and clients alike". Statamic 2 is now built on Laravel and sporting a brand new Vue.js-powered control panel. As a developer you can build, configure, and manage everything right in your code editor. As a client or content manager you never have to leave the c.

Craft and Statamic can be primarily classified as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.

Some of the features offered by Craft are:

Relations
Matrix
Assets

On the other hand, Statamic provides the following key features:

Bring Your Own HTML
Drag and Drop Pages
One Click Updates

"Quick bespoke CMS" is the top reason why over 7 developers like Craft, while over 2 developers mention "No database" as the leading cause for choosing Statamic.

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What is Craft?

Craft is a content management system (CMS) that’s laser-focused on doing one thing really, really well: managing content.

What is Statamic?

Statamic 2 is now built on Laravel and sporting a brand new Vue.js-powered control panel. As a developer you can build, configure, and manage everything right in your code editor. As a client or content manager you never have to leave the c

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Why do developers choose Craft?

Why do developers choose Statamic?

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Quick bespoke CMS
5
Clean slate approach to templating
4
Easy to use CMS
2
Free licence available for single user account version
2
Great support
1
Clean templating markup (twig)

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No database
2
Easy templating
2
Surprising flexibility
2
Great documentation
2
It is based on Laravel
2
Too expensive for personal blog
2
Version control your content

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What are some alternatives to Craft and Statamic?

WordPress

The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.

Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.

Joomla!

Joomla is a simple and powerful web server application and it requires a server with PHP and either MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server to run it.

Ghost

Ghost is a platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing. It's beautifully designed, completely customisable and completely Open Source. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do.

OctoberCMS

October is a Content Management System (CMS) and web platform whose sole purpose is to make your development workflow simple again. We feel building websites has become a convoluted and confusing process that leaves developers unsatisfied, we want to turn you around to the simpler side and get back to basics.

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