--- title: OpenCms Reviews meta\_title: 'OpenCms Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 19 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how OpenCms works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.3 review\_count: 19 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Content Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/content-management --- # OpenCms Reviews & Product Details OpenCms from Alkacon Software is a professional, easy to use website content management system. OpenCms helps content managers worldwide to create and maintain beautiful websites fast and efficiently. * * * Seller [OpenCms](https://www.g2.com/sellers/opencms) Discussions [OpenCms Community](https://www.g2.com/products/opencms/discuss) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 1 month ### Return on Investment 26 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/opencms/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Drupal](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Drupal") Drupal 3.9/5(425) ](https://www.g2.com/products/drupal/reviews) [ ![Sitecore Digital Experience Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sitecore Digital Experience Platform") Sitecore Digital Experience Platform 4.1/5(661) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sitecore-digital-experience-platform/reviews) [ ![WordPress.org](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "WordPress.org") WordPress.org 4.4/5(9,544) ](https://www.g2.com/products/wordpress-org/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/opencms/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 19 real user reviews. Implementation Time 1 month [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) JR Jose Ignacio R. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/29/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "OpenCms absolutely recomendable CMS" 4.5/5 What do you like best about OpenCms? Easy and fast to learn. Allows to develop websites really fastly. The use of Content Definitions was very useful. Many interesting features, easy to understand and reuse. Summing up: I really recommend the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenCms? I had to extend the BackOffice in order to manage our contents and to add new functionalities to the website, and at that time, I needed help from forums and community in order to learn how to do some advanced details. After solving everything the result was great, and we used this knowledge in further projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you? Create websites with many posibilities simplified; multilanguage, multisite, reuse of styles, easy to organize contents, structure, and many other aspects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite LJ Lustre J. Software engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/26/2020 "Good platform for cms websites contents like news, articles etc" 4.5/5 What do you like best about OpenCms? The ability to create a one time template and then spawning multiple websites using the template 1. Open source 2. Based on Java 3. Content Authoring 4. Permission Management 5. Template Creation 6. Version Control You can invest once to make the website template and you will needed few minutes to made to change the website content multiple times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenCms? The version that we used does not support the HTML5, CSS3, so we have used old style CSS and basic HTML functions. As per the documentation the latest version of OpenCms supports HTML5 and CSS3 and all that. Few improvement i would like to see in OpenCms: 1. The text editor can be better 2. The code editor can be better 3. Approval process is not there 4. Document management is also missing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering OpenCms: If you want to create a one instance website, then OpenCMS may not be right for your requirement. If you have a requirement to create a website template or a page template or a product page template then OpenCMS is the right platform. Example: News - A news article can be render in a same page but the content will be different, like the article, the article image, the hyperlinks in the article. Product page - An e-commerce website will display the product in a product page, so it will be the same page for all the products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you? The project that we worked on requires different content at regular intervals or on different occasions. Using OpenCMS platform, we created a website template where we are able to configure the content of the websites, look and feel of the websites. Then websites applications were created for each occasion and then content and configurations were provided the values to each of these website app. and we publish the app at the particular time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Public Policy](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Public Policy") AP Verified User in Public Policy Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/29/2020 "Open CMS daily use for Pubblic Administration online communication" 4.5/5 What do you like best about OpenCms? Easy and intuitive use, many personalization, wide community Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenCms? it fitted all of our goals in terms of usability and communication goals Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering OpenCms: As a final user, we bought a customized release from a web agency, which played a key role in succesfull use of the platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you? as a pubblic entity as big as 800 employees, we built a coordinated system made of more than 20 little website, managed a widespread editorial board thank to the opencms tools and their ease of use and ease of teach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Entertainment](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Entertainment") CE Verified User in Entertainment Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/9/2020 "OpenCMS review" 4.5/5 What do you like best about OpenCms? The builtin hierarchy of based on content type Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenCms? OpenCMS is slower than other commercial CMS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenCms solving and how is that benefiting you? Not many problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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