Ibexa

Ibexa is the direct descendant of eZ Systems, founded in Norway in 1999, and it is the only enterprise DXP in this category with a real open-source edition rather than a marketing claim: the code Ibexa publishes on GitHub is dual-licensed, available under the GPLv2 at no cost or under the commercial Ibexa Business Use Licence for customers with an Ibexa DXP subscription.

That structure gives a buyer a genuine self-hosted, licence-free fallback if a commercial relationship ever ends — something none of the purely proprietary DXPs in this list can offer.

Ibexa AS is registered in Oslo, which places the company inside the EEA and the GDPR but, as a Norwegian entity, outside the EU itself.

The product line has consolidated into Ibexa Headless, Ibexa Experience and Ibexa Commerce, aimed at mid-to-large organisations rather than small teams, and — like most enterprise DXPs — there is no public price list for the commercial subscription. The open-source edition removes the licence cost but not the implementation work: running Ibexa well still calls for a Symfony-literate development team, and the documentation assumes that baseline.

What Ibexa does well

• Genuine open-source edition under GPLv2, not just a trial
• Commercial subscription only needed for support and extras
• Headless, Experience and Commerce cover different project shapes
• Direct continuity from eZ Systems, founded 1999
• No vendor lock-in: the GPL code keeps working without a contract

Where Ibexa falls short

• Norway is EEA, not EU, for buyers where that distinction matters
• No public pricing for the commercial DXP subscription
• Needs a Symfony-literate team to run well
• Product positioning has shifted around a broader "orchestration" platform

Standout feature. A dual licence with teeth: Ibexa is the only DXP here whose open-source edition is the same GPLv2 code its enterprise product is built on.