European Digital Experience Platforms

#1 Jahia

Geneva, Switzerland Founded 2002 Quote only: two plans, Enterprise CMS and Enterprise DXP, with no amounts shown Book a demo

Best for: Groups with dozens of brand or country sites that want visitor profiles and content in the same product

• Operating company. Jahia Solutions Group SA
• Jurisdiction. Switzerland: covered by an EU adequacy decision, not an EEA member
• Where the data sits. Jahia Cloud regions: France (OVH), Ireland, North Virginia (both AWS) and Singapore; the customer selects one
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Sitecore and Adobe Experience Manager

Jahia is a Geneva enterprise CMS whose DXP edition puts a customer data platform next to the content editor. Its pricing page compares an Enterprise CMS plan with an Enterprise DXP plan, and the second adds visitor profiles, personalisation, dynamic lists and analytics dashboards, so segment rules live where the pages are edited.

The company behind it is Jahia Solutions Group SA, founded in 2002 and named as controller in its privacy policy. Jahia Cloud offers France (OVH), Ireland, North Virginia (AWS) or Singapore, with a 99.9% production commitment, and the company dates its ISO 27001 certification to 2019. The vendor cites about 120 customers, which is modest, and no prices are published.

Standout feature. Jahia is the only suite here whose DXP plan includes the customer data platform in the same licence as the CMS.

#2 CoreMedia

Hamburg, Germany Founded 1996 No amounts listed; a demo comes first Book a demo

Best for: Regulated or multi-brand enterprises that want a visual editor and an API from one content system

• Operating company. CoreMedia GmbH
• Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
• Where the data sits. Major public clouds, a private cloud or your own racks; the vendor says hosting inside the EU is possible
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Sitecore and Adobe Experience Manager

CoreMedia is a hybrid headless CMS from Hamburg: REST and GraphQL deliver content to any front end, while CoreMedia Studio gives editors an in-context preview and drag-and-drop blocks. The preview is a Studio plugin plus a small front-end package, so it keeps working when a separate front end renders the site.

CoreMedia GmbH is registered at Rödingsmarkt 9 in Hamburg (HRB 162480), and its history page dates the start to 1996. Client stories name the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Deutscher Bundestag and Finnair. Modules for testing, journeys, email and SMS, chat and a contact centre are listed separately, with no prices or certificate list on the pages read.

Standout feature. CoreMedia keeps in-context visual preview working even when a separate front end renders the site.

#3 Ibexa

Oslo, Norway Founded 1999 Open Source Edition costs nothing under GPLv2; the commercial Ibexa DXP subscription is priced individually Book a demo

Best for: Symfony teams that want an enterprise DXP with a licence-free route behind the paid subscription

• Operating company. Ibexa AS
• Jurisdiction. Norway: inside the EEA, outside the EU
• Where the data sits. Servers of your choice for the open source edition, or a managed Ibexa DXP deployment
• Source code. Open source
• Replaces. Contentful, Sitecore and Adobe Experience Manager

Ibexa is a Norwegian DXP that descends from eZ Systems, founded in 1999. The code on GitHub is dual-licensed: GPLv2 at no cost, or the Ibexa Business Use Licence for customers with a DXP subscription. The product line is split into Ibexa Headless, Ibexa Experience and Ibexa Commerce.

Ibexa AS is registered in Oslo, so it falls under GDPR through the EEA but is not an EU company. The commercial subscription has no public price, and the free edition removes the licence fee, not the implementation work: the documentation assumes a Symfony-literate team. Its positioning has moved toward a wider orchestration platform, which can blur what a quote includes.

Standout feature. Ibexa is the only DXP here whose open-source edition is the same GPLv2 code as the enterprise product.

#4 Enonic

Oslo, Norway Founded 1996 Developer plan at no cost; Professional and Enterprise are quoted Book a demo

Best for: Nordic public bodies and enterprises that expect to keep a content platform for a decade

• Operating company. Enonic AS
• Jurisdiction. Norway: inside the EEA, outside the EU
• Where the data sits. Enonic runs the SaaS; no region is named on the pages we checked
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Contentful (headless use)

Enonic is an Oslo platform whose core, Enonic XP, is published on GitHub under GPL-3.0 and sold as managed SaaS. Editors use Content Studio with interactive previews, workflows and AI drafting, and developers can work against headless APIs with a Next.js integration. A Free plan gives developers 5 GB of storage and community support, without backups.

Enonic AS has been registered in Oslo since 1996, according to the Norwegian business register, and the About page counts 18 staff. Professional states 99.5 percent uptime and Enterprise up to 99.99 percent, but the paid prices and the hosting region are not published. Named customers include NAV, the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration, and DiBK, the Norwegian Building Authority.

Standout feature. Enonic pairs a GPL-3.0 core with a free developer plan and a managed tier that states 99.99 percent uptime.

#5 Kontent.ai

Brno, Czech Republic Estimate via sliders, final quote via a form; no price list Book a demo

Best for: Big editorial organisations with several approval stages, brands and markets

• Operating company. Kontent CZ s.r.o.
• Jurisdiction. Czech Republic, an EU member
• Where the data sits. No region named on the pages we checked
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Contentful (headless use)

Kontent.ai is a hosted enterprise CMS from Brno that puts roles, workflows and approvals ahead of page design. Its home page cites a customer managing one portal across 30 or more sites and a team of 100 marketers on 30 websites. The vendor describes AI agents for audits, governance and localization.

The terms of service name Kontent CZ s.r.o. as provider, or another affiliated group company, and the data processing terms list Kontent US, LLC, so the signing entity should be confirmed. The vendor states SOC 2, ISO 27001 and 27017, GDPR, HIPAA and GLBA, with a Trust Center. Pricing runs through sliders and a quote form, and no hosting region was stated.

Standout feature. Kontent.ai is built around approval chains, and all plans include 24/7 in-app chat support.

#6 Pimcore

Salzburg, Austria Founded 2013 Community edition at no cost; paid editions and a cloud service sit above it Book a demo

Best for: Product companies whose images, documents and catalogue data must stay linked in a single system

• Operating company. Pimcore GmbH (FN 398049t)
• Jurisdiction. Austria, an EU member
• Where the data sits. Servers you run, or a cloud inside the EU
• Source code. Open source
• Replaces. Bynder, Akeneo and the asset side of Adobe Experience Manager

Pimcore is an open-source platform from Salzburg that keeps digital assets, product information, customer data and content in one model. The practical effect is that an image knows which product variant it belongs to, where a DAM, a PIM and a CMS wired together need someone to maintain that link.

Pimcore GmbH (FN 398049t) was founded in 2013, and the community edition is free, with paid editions and a cloud. Because the core is open source and runs on your servers or an EU cloud, the exit is built in. It is a platform rather than a packaged application, so implementations usually go through a partner, which is heavy for a team that only wants a brand portal.

Standout feature. Pimcore links each asset to the product it belongs to inside one data model, with no integration in between.

#7 Magnolia

Münchenstein (Basel), Switzerland Founded 1997 Self-hosted DX Core starts near €3,000 a month and managed DX Cloud near €5,000 a month, each negotiated further Book a demo

Best for: Large enterprises assembling content, commerce and integrations from independent building blocks

• Operating company. Magnolia International Ltd
• Jurisdiction. Switzerland: covered by an EU adequacy decision, not an EEA member
• Where the data sits. Your servers for DX Core; for DX Cloud, Magnolia hosts on AWS, Azure, GCP or other providers
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, Contentful

Magnolia is a Swiss composable DXP built around content, commerce and integrations that are combined as separate blocks. DX Core is deployed on infrastructure you control, and DX Cloud is the managed version that Magnolia runs across AWS, Azure, GCP and other providers according to the customer's needs.

Magnolia International Ltd sits in Münchenstein near Basel and has developed since 1997. Its site states ISO 27001, SOC 2, SOC 3, GDPR and Spain's ENS. Starting prices are about €3,000 a month for DX Core and about €5,000 for DX Cloud, both quoted further, with no free Community Edition now. Switzerland has an adequacy decision but is outside the EEA.

Standout feature. Magnolia runs its managed cloud across AWS, Azure and GCP instead of committing to a single provider.

#8 Kentico Xperience

Brno, Czech Republic Founded 2004 Enterprise quotes only; delivery as managed SaaS or inside your own private cloud Book a demo

Best for: Marketing teams that outgrew a simple CMS and need a self-hosting fallback in procurement terms

• Operating company. Kentico Software s.r.o.
• Jurisdiction. Czech Republic, an EU member
• Where the data sits. Your tenant on Azure or AWS, your own data centre, or the managed SaaS
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. Optimizely, Sitecore and Adobe Experience Manager

Kentico Xperience is a Czech DXP that combines content management, digital marketing and commerce, and it is sold as fully managed SaaS or deployed in your own private cloud on Azure, AWS or on-premises. The vendor calls the result the same product, same capabilities and no lock-in, so a SaaS customer can later move in-house without changing platform.

Kentico Software s.r.o. has been registered in Brno since 2004, so the vendor is inside the EU whichever deployment you pick. There is no public price list, and every engagement is quoted. Self-hosting leaves patching, scaling and backups with you, and the interface assumes a marketing team with a dedicated administrator.

Standout feature. Kentico Xperience promises identical capabilities on-premises, in a private cloud and as managed SaaS.

#9 Storyblok

Linz, Austria Founded 2017 A free tier, then roughly EUR 99 a month for teams; enterprise is quoted Book a demo

Best for: Marketing teams that publish in many languages and want to edit visually on a decoupled front end

• Operating company. Storyblok GmbH
• Jurisdiction. Austria, an EU member
• Where the data sits. An EU region is offered and is the default for European customers
• Source code. Closed source
• Replaces. WordPress, Contentful and Adobe Experience Manager

Storyblok is an Austrian headless CMS built to answer the usual complaint about headless systems: editors can no longer see the page. Its editor shows the live rendered page, and clicking an element selects the matching component, while the API returns structured JSON to Next.js, Nuxt, Astro or any other front end.

Storyblok GmbH is based in Linz and founded in 2017, and European customers default to an EU region. Field-level translation and per-market variants are core features, and teams start from about €99 per month after a free tier. It has no self-hosting, costs climb with team size and API traffic, and the component library needs careful design early on.

Standout feature. Storyblok lets editors click through the live page on a headless stack, which classic headless tools lack.

#10 Umbraco

Odense, Denmark Founded 2003 Self-hosting is free open source; Umbraco Cloud runs from roughly €45 a month (Starter) to roughly €730 (Professional), Enterprise quoted Book a demo

Best for: Agencies and enterprises on .NET that want a free CMS core and a choice of hosting

• Operating company. Umbraco A/S
• Jurisdiction. EU (Denmark)
• Where the data sits. Servers you run, or Umbraco Cloud hosted on Microsoft Azure
• Source code. Open source
• Replaces. WordPress, Sitecore and Adobe Experience Manager

Umbraco is a Danish .NET CMS whose core is MIT-licensed, so the software carries no licence fee on any hosting route. Content, media and document types are modelled in the interface instead of code-first schemas, which leaves editors independent once the site is built.

Umbraco A/S was founded in Odense in 2003 and sells Umbraco Cloud, managed hosting on Microsoft Azure with an ISO 27001-certified platform. Plans run from about €45 a month for Starter to about €730 for Professional, with Enterprise quoted. Cloud names Azure but no EU region, the backoffice looks dated beside newer tools, and .NET hosting is a smaller market than PHP.

Standout feature. Umbraco is the only tool here whose open-source software never carries a price, with the fee limited to optional hosting.

#11 TYPO3

Basel, Switzerland Founded 1998 Open source and free; agency work and ELTS support are billed separately Book a demo

Best for: Universities, municipalities and public bodies running many sites and languages from one installation

• Operating company. TYPO3 Association
• Jurisdiction. Switzerland: covered by an EU adequacy decision, not an EEA member
• Where the data sits. Servers you run yourself
• Source code. Open source
• Replaces. WordPress, Sitecore and Adobe Experience Manager

TYPO3 is a multisite CMS developed since 1998 and governed by the TYPO3 Association, a membership organisation rather than a venture-backed company. One installation can serve a whole university, with each faculty holding its own domain, design and editorial team, while language handling and translation fallbacks are structural.

Permissions can be set per page tree, content type and field, and workspaces let changes be prepared, previewed and approved before going live. Long-term support releases come with defined windows and paid extended support. The software is free, but implementations usually involve a specialist agency, the interface looks dated and the extension ecosystem is smaller than WordPress's.

Standout feature. TYPO3 serves dozens of sites and languages from one install with per-department permissions down to field level.