--- title: Magnolia Reviews meta\_title: 'Magnolia Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 57 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Magnolia works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 57 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Content Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/content-management --- # Magnolia Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Magnolia but has limited features. Are you part of the Magnolia team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Magnolia combines the power of composable DXP with emerging AI to help enterprises move faster, adapt with ease, and drive long-term success. With its open, flexible, and intuitive CMS, global organizations can bring all their digital experiences—websites, portals, intranets, and applications—together on one centralized platform. Magnolia gives developers the freedom to build, marketers the tools to create, and businesses the confidence to grow. With over 450 enterprise customers and more than 200 certified Magnolia Partners globally, Magnolia is the CMS of choice for leading companies worldwide, including American Express, JetBlue, T-Mobile, Sanofi, and Generali. * * * Seller [Magnolia](https://www.g2.com/sellers/magnolia) Discussions [Magnolia Community](https://www.g2.com/products/magnolia/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Global Marketing (Magnolia Global Marketing) Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by Magnolia. ### Community Edition CMS Free ### DX Core Starting at $3,500.00 Per Month [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/magnolia/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Contentful](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Contentful") Contentful 4.3/5(327) ](https://www.g2.com/products/contentful/reviews) [ ![Adobe Experience Manager](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Adobe Experience Manager") Adobe Experience Manager 4.2/5(691) ](https://www.g2.com/products/adobe-experience-manager/reviews) [ ![Liferay Digital Experience Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Liferay Digital Experience Platform") Liferay Digital Experience Platform 4.4/5(148) ](https://www.g2.com/products/liferay-liferay-digital-experience-platform/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/magnolia/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 57 real user reviews. 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NH Najiba H. Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/3/2021 "My experience of using with magnolia for 1 year" 4/5 What do you like best about Magnolia? I liked the ability to create custom apps, store data in those apps. It reduces the overhead of adding a new database and gives more customisation power. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Magnolia? Using react or angular with magnolia makes it very slow. Most of the UI development must be done using plain html and jquery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Magnolia: It is a Java based CMS. Will work perfectly if your system is java based. Has many capabilities and features with good level of customisation powers but not too easy to use them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using it for managing dynamic content on our websites. The marketing team can change stuffs without contacting dev team. They can easily add/remove components, change content of static pages like about us , control styling to a certain extent, change banners, temporarily add offers etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Prateek A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Prateek A.") PA Prateek A. IT Analyst Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/3/2021 "Magnolia - Digitised Content Manager" 4/5 What do you like best about Magnolia? Easy to plug, Spring Integration with the help of blossom library. Author to Public features, Workflow management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Magnolia? Content node was bit tricky, had issue with publishing data from Author to Public. Only once faced a blocker for which we had a connect with magnolia developers to solve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you? Since it's a CMS i.e. nothing but a content management system, so our main agenda was to deal with dynamic content but without any deployment or server restart. Hence, we chose Magnolia as a CMS tool with which any one can change the content of a webpage without having much knowledge on technical front. Not just it's easy to use by any naive person but also one can have varied version control as well such as to rollback if needed. So over-all, it was brilliant package if you have dynamic content on your web page Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Dragan V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dragan V.") DV Dragan V. Senior Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/27/2020 "Magnolia CMS - simple to use, rapid development and plenty of enterprise built-in features" 5/5 What do you like best about Magnolia? Magnolia offers a great authoring experience for content writers and thanks to that the road to happy and satisfied customers is already started. For developers, it is quite easy to get familiar with magnolia development environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Magnolia? If you are not an experienced developer it is very difficult to start and do things in the right way. Even the community is growing in the past years there is still a lot of space for growing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you? Magnolia has plenty of enterprise features already built-in like workflow and personalization. Thanks to that we are able to resolve requirements that are quite standard and required for today's modern websites. PUR(public user registration) module is a very useful and helpful module for creating a login/register form if necessary. Managing roles, groups and users is another thing that magnolia already has simplified. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") AT Verified User in Telecommunications Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/15/2021 "Amazing trip with Magnolia CMS" 5/5 What do you like best about Magnolia? Its extremely easy to change files on the fly and publish in matter of seconds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Magnolia? It would be good if somehow there is a way to being able to deploy core files e.g java Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Magnolia: Its a very well constructed environment for handling web content...most of the new IT technologies can be integrated in Magnolia. It is best that you have well configured servers and ci/cd jobs jn order to unleash the full power of magnolia Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you? Building components,developing microservices and fro ntend modules...for the whole frontend part new features are amazingly easy to be deployed, tested and debugged...with ci/cd functionalities same can happen for the backend part too Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Bhushan B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bhushan B.") BB Bhushan B. IT Analyst & Java Developer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/16/2020 "Magnolia CMS System - Easy & Fast" 4/5 What do you like best about Magnolia? Magnolia is the powerful, easy and fast way to create and manage the content of your website. With the latest versions and updates, it is even more easy to develop the website using Light-Weight modules and are cloud based. The latest version also provide with the CLI tool for the development. As the end user of the tool, it also provides the multisite support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Magnolia? The only downside I have seen is for the existing user who are using quite outdated version of Magnolia. It is not very easy to migrate from 4.x version to the latest version as there is huge change in internal structure and specification used by the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Magnolia: Magnolia is a powerful centralized platform to help users to deliver their digital experiences related to their brands and business. Demo can be viewed at the below sites that is been provided by Magnolia: - https://demoauthor.magnolia-cms.com/ - Author Instance - https://demopublic.magnolia-cms.com/ - Public Domain Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you? - It was been used as a Web Content Management tool. - Providing the multi site support for the different website in the single platform. - Creation of common templates which could be used across all the sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Nand Kishore P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nand Kishore P.") NP Nand Kishore P. Assistant Consultant Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/11/2021 "Magnolia is best content management platform" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Magnolia? Magnolia is very strong open source CMS platform which help end user to manage dynamic content e.g. Websites, videos, images, blogs, publishing content to various environments and many more. Its having rich inbuilt features to integrate with many social media platforms and use the contents within out portals. I like the apis available for development its made very easy code for developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Magnolia? There are some areas where magnolia team would be need to more focus on the adoption of new changes more frequently as the world is changing very fast. Although they are doing great job in all the way to add improvements, I appreciate it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you? I have done digital transformation for an legacy java portal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism") IL Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/4/2021 "Worked on Magnolia Content management system for an Client for Car Rental web application" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Magnolia? The multiple features of components, dialog feature , different roles for security purpose and customization of the components. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Magnolia? The dislike is about the documentation and discussion forum other than Magnolia official documentation , there is no other source or discussion forums or help for the guidance of the customization or enhancement required for inbuilt features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you? The clients can perform their own content management without involvement of the developers or without any code changes. It helps to duplicate the entire content to multiple languages and multiple sites/ locales with minimum efforts. Benefits are: Multiple features of components Dialog feature Different roles for security purpose Customization of the components Support for the different locales and languages Templates for multiple devices desktop, tab and phone view Multiple user with access roles to perform the task at the same time concurrently and helps to save the changes with the user names. The entire content of the application can be translated for different language and domains to develop multiple sites. The author view allow the authors to edit the content and save without any code changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Abhinav S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Abhinav S.") AS Abhinav S. Software Specialist Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/14/2020 "Magnolia - CMS Overview" 4/5 What do you like best about Magnolia? Magnolia comes with a ton of features like any other CMS tool in the market. The one thing that distinguishes this product from its competitors is the ability to develop custom features for enterprise grade applications. It is highly adaptable and can be leveraged with other frameworks quite easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Magnolia? There is a lesser documentation available on the internet for this tool. Also lots of time you will be doing custom development for which reference resources might be hard to find. Overall a good dedicated team to help you out with your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Magnolia: Do a small POC with the other CMS tools available online before making a decision. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you? We were using the tool to centrally manage the web content across multitude of sites with internationalization features. Customize the websites for local country specific needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") CI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/27/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "A new experience with Magnolia CMS" 4/5 What do you like best about Magnolia? Magnolia CMS is not so difficult to learn. The learning curve is not that high as long as you know the basics. I also like the multi-site setup that they have, it allows us as a developer and as a solutions provider to maintain all sites in one application only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Magnolia? The only thing I dislike about Magnolia is the documentation. They are not that updated and most of the time we have to look at everything and it is not user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Magnolia: It is an enterprise-level CMS, it will be best if you have basic skills in software development if you want to explore magnolia as a developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you? End to end solutions for our clients. I benefited from Magnolia CMS because it is my first CMS and I enjoy the experience and the learnings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Stojan P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Stojan P.") SP Stojan P. Senior Developer and Consultant Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/21/2020 "Magnolia got me started in my Web Development career" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Magnolia? Easy to setup and use. The editorial part is very intuitive and the pool of modules to use is enough to start with the essential business functions. Development environment allows adding new functionalities by extendint the existing or implementing new modules. Overall a complete Content Managment System with great focus on Business services and values. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Magnolia? The system is a bit heavy for smaller sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Magnolia solving and how is that benefiting you? The ability of a client to manage their own sites. Easy editing and publishing functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Magnolia? 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 Magnolia ](https://www.g2.com/products/magnolia/discussions/new) GU Guest User • Last activity over 3 years ago What is Magnolia CMS used for? 2 Upvotes 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-magnolia-cms-used-for) GU Guest User • Last activity over 3 years ago What is Magnolia technology? 2 Upvotes 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-magnolia-technology) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/magnolia/discuss) ## Pricing Options Pricing provided by Magnolia. ### Community Edition CMS Free ### DX Core Starting at $3,500.00 Per Month ### DX Cloud Starting at $6,000.00 Per Month [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/magnolia/pricing) Magnolia Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_5a7938ffd6497884772dc39786f9e1e2/adobe-experience-manager.png "Product Avatar Image") Adobe 4.2/5(691) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/adobe-experience-manager-vs-magnolia) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_fbdebc9bfa1eb2015be7c8195562935a/liferay-liferay-digital-experience-platform%282%29.png "Product Avatar Image") Liferay 4.4/5(148) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/liferay-liferay-digital-experience-platform-vs-magnolia) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_499e15a3e9f0a6c69f9cb6ef413fc738/contentful.png "Product Avatar Image") Contentful 4.3/5(327) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/contentful-vs-magnolia) ##### ##### Magnolia Features Content Content Authoring Rich Text Editor Plug-ins/Widgets/Apps Design Mobile Branding/Themes Customization Platform SEO User, Role, and Access Management Enterprise Scalability [ View More Features ](https://www.g2.com/products/magnolia/features) ##### Categories on G2 [SAP Store](https://www.g2.com/categories/sap-store)[Web Content Management](https://www.g2.com/categories/web-content-management)[Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)](https://www.g2.com/categories/digital-experience-platforms-dxp) [SAP Store](https://www.g2.com/categories/sap-store)[Web Content Management](https://www.g2.com/categories/web-content-management)[Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)](https://www.g2.com/categories/digital-experience-platforms-dxp)[Headless CMS](https://www.g2.com/categories/headless-cms) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);) ##### Explore More [What's a good Mac and Windows compatible drive cloning software for mixed home and office use?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-s-a-good-mac-and-windows-compatible-drive-cloning-software-for-mixed-home-and-office-use)[Best text-to-image tools for rapid blog post thumbnail creation](https://www.g2.com/discussions/best-text-to-image-tools-for-rapid-blog-post-thumbnail-creation)[Best CPaaS software for startups](https://www.g2.com/discussions/best-cpaas-software-for-startups) [Best-reviewed employee communication software](https://www.g2.com/discussions/best-reviewed-employee-communication-software)[Which scientific data management platforms include FDA compliance and audit trail capabilities to help enterprise teams identify the best fit for regulated research environments?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-scientific-data-management-platforms-include-fda-compliance-and-audit-trail-capabilities-to-help-enterprise-teams-identify-the-best-fit-for-regulated-research-environments%20)[What are the top grant management platforms for improving team operational efficiency and reducing manual administrative work?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-top-grant-management-platforms-for-improving-team-operational-efficiency-and-reducing-manual-administrative-work) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)