--- title: dotCMS Reviews meta\_title: 'dotCMS Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 116 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how dotCMS works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.1 review\_count: 116 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Content Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/content-management --- # dotCMS Reviews & Product Details Visit Website dotCMS is a visual headless content management system (CMS) designed to assist compliance-led organizations in the creation, management, and publication of digital content across various sites, brands, and channels from a unified platform. This innovative solution combines the flexibility of a headless CMS with a user-friendly visual editing interface, making it suitable for both developers and content teams. The platform is particularly relevant for organizations that prioritize governance and compliance, such as those in financial services, healthcare, government, telecom, and manufacturing. It is ideal for use cases that involve managing multi-site brand and regional websites, intranets, customer portals, product and marketing sites, and localized content. By providing a centralized system, dotCMS allows users to maintain control over their content while ensuring that it meets regulatory requirements. Key features of dotCMS include its API-first design, which supports GraphQL, REST, and Page API, enabling developers to integrate with various front-end technologies like React, Next.js, and Angular. This flexibility allows for seamless integration with other systems, such as commerce, digital asset management (DAM), and product information management (PIM). Content editors benefit from a visual interface that includes drag-and-drop functionality and live preview capabilities, streamlining the content creation process. Governance and compliance are at the forefront of dotCMS's offerings, with built-in workflows, approval processes, audit trails, granular permissions, and version history. This ensures that organizations can maintain oversight of their content operations, with configurable roles and multi-step approval processes that enhance accountability. Furthermore, dotCMS is aligned with enterprise security and compliance standards, such as SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, providing peace of mind for organizations handling sensitive information. Organizations like BNP Paribas, Telus, and various regional health systems utilize dotCMS to consolidate their content platforms, standardize governance practices, and reduce operational overhead. The platform is tailored for teams that require both content flexibility and stringent control over publishing processes, making it a robust solution for managing digital content in a compliant manner. * * * Product Website dotCMS Seller [dotCMS](https://www.g2.com/sellers/dotcms) Discussions [dotCMS Community](https://www.g2.com/products/dotcms/discuss) Languages Supported Danish, German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Victoria Burt Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by dotCMS. ### Community (Business Source License) Free [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/dotcms/pricing) ## dotCMS Integrations (1) What do users say about integrations? Verified by dotCMS [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Oracle Database ](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-database/reviews) Show More ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") UF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/16/2026 "Fast layouting, but workflows and search definitively need review" 3/5 What do you like best about dotCMS? Quick layouting of pages, preview is quite OK Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dotCMS? Bad multilingual support, too many workflows when you have access to several projects, slow indexing, system crashes or resets without notice, illocic search, no filtering by author or date etc. in the tasks lists (only sorting), in 4-eyes-principle workflows, no possibility for yourself to take back a task you sent to the workflow, although it is your task! etc. Note that some or all of the above might be due to the implementation in my company, and not inherent to dotCMS itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you? dotCMS allows us to publish quickly on the internet what needs to be public facing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Marc Boutillette of dotCMS [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/dotcms-review-12966921/official_response/edit) Thank you very much for the thoughtful review and honest feedback. We’re glad to hear that page layouting and preview are helping your team publish public-facing content quickly. Some of the items you mentioned have been a major focus in recent dotCMS releases, including improvements to our Locales tool, the editing experience, search and filtering, indexing, and our Evergreen cloud infrastructure. It’s possible that your team is on an older version or that some of these areas are influenced by your current implementation. Either way, we’d welcome the opportunity to review your setup and walk you through the latest improvements. Your workflow feedback is especially helpful. Visibility across multiple projects may be something our team can help refine through configuration, but the ability for a user to pull back a task they submitted is a very useful suggestion. We’ve added that to the workflow improvements we are evaluating for an upcoming release. Thanks again for taking the time to share this feedback. We would love to connect with you through your Customer Success Manager so the product team can better understand your experience and help improve it. Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") UR Verified User in Retail Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/8/2024 "corporate primary user review" 3/5 What do you like best about dotCMS? The page editor is easy to use. Also quite esy to create new components, manage content, and schedule publishing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dotCMS? Issues with the publishing filters. The options are confusing and lead to pushing more than intended. Overall the high amount of customization available to us made initial setup complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you? Allowing non developers to create content and schedule publishing on off hours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Melissa Petrie of dotCMS [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/dotcms-review-9624287/official_response/edit) Thank you for your feedback on dotCMS. We're pleased to hear that you find the page editor user-friendly and effective for creating components, managing content, and scheduling publishing. We appreciate your honesty about the challenges with publishing filters and the complexity of the initial setup. This is something our Product team is evaluating and your insights are valuable as we work to simplify these areas and improve our platform. We would love to offer some additional support and training for your team, please feel free to reach out to your CSM to schedule some convenient time. Thank you again for your input, It's great to know dotCMS is enabling non-developers to create and schedule content efficiently. 10/15/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") TF Verified User in Financial Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/8/2022 "An average tool for simple homepages" 2.5/5 What do you like best about dotCMS? dotCMS/our website supplier is very responsive when we have issues. Both are very transparent when it comes to challenging the current functionalities and adding new ones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dotCMS? dotCMS has a tendency to make easy things complicated and has some issues with bugs. As we have high demands in regards to styling/formatting, using dotCMS is sometimes challenging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you? We have to maintain a lot of different support sites at the same time and adapt content for each of them appropriately. dotCMS offers some elaborate yet accessible tools to address that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") CC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/11/2020 "Great for content management but needs improvement on dynamic functionality." 3/5 What do you like best about dotCMS? I like the content creation process and the ability to easily place items in a page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dotCMS? Lack of support for dynamic functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you? The ability to create full websites while giving a seamless content creation process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Management Consulting](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Management Consulting") AM Verified User in Management Consulting Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/20/2019 "dotCMS review" 2.5/5 What do you like best about dotCMS? It is fairly easy to learn basic functionality quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dotCMS? Getting data out of dotCMS is complicated and needs a programmer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering dotCMS: Get training Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you? Content management and data organization around our assets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller AF antony f. It is a versatile, efficient and powerful tool that helps you manage projects. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/13/2019 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "It is a great option that helps you simplify the management and management of content." 3/5 What do you like best about dotCMS? is a very versatile and adaptable tool, which allows you to manage the contents in a very dynamic way, thus achieving a new approach to these contents. Facilitating access and management of them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dotCMS? some of its functions can become really limited to handle, which makes it difficult and can diminish the utility of the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you? thanks to the functions that this tool offers, it is possible to manage and develop the contents in a very dynamic way, which helps to give a new focus and management to said contents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite SR sonia r. It is an excellent option to execute and manage various projects in a very accessible way. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/28/2019 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "is an efficient and powerful tool for managing content." 3/5 What do you like best about dotCMS? It is a tool that gives you a lot of freedom of handling for different areas to manage content, allows you to edit and improve content, managing to develop content in the best way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dotCMS? It has certain limitations when developing and improving the content level content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you? is a good choice to manage and address business content in the best way, managing content in a very practical way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") CC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/5/2019 "1 year out" 2.5/5 What do you like best about dotCMS? The headless cms is a nice feature, API integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dotCMS? there are some bugs in the application. It can be less than user friendly for non-technical based users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering dotCMS: consider setting up as a headless CMS and velocity is a bit arcane Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you? the code base is quite flexible under the hood so our team is able to handle a lot of client requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller JK Joe K. Engineering Lead Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/1/2019 "Engineering Lead" 3/5 What do you like best about dotCMS? I like that dotcms contains traditional and headless CMS options and paradigms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dotCMS? I often find there is a lack of quality documentation available for newer versions of dotcms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you? I've used DOTCMS to build singlepage applications. We've realized integration easement using the headless components. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") AB Verified User in Banking Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/25/2019 "exceellent and easy to use cms" 2.5/5 What do you like best about dotCMS? the user interface is very good and clear to user Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about dotCMS? push publishing is not good and needs improving Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is dotCMS solving and how is that benefiting you? dynamic content personalistaion Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ## Questions about dotCMS? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about dotCMS ](https://www.g2.com/products/dotcms/discussions/new) ![Verified User](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User") G2 Verified User • Last activity over 6 years ago How is dotCMS priced? 2 Upvotes 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/pricing-9874cac7-11e7-4263-aa31-734b2f725262) ![Kelvin E.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kelvin E.") KE Kelvin Ekonomi • Last activity almost 6 years ago I didn't check last versions so it might be already there. When dotCMS will fully support all the entities (containers, templates, pages, etc) and content to be deployable through APIs? 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