Grav vs Wagtail
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted content management systems options
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
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Compare Grav with
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Compare Wagtail with
choose an app… Hugo Astro Gatsby Ghost Jekyll Payload CMS Hexo Halo Docsify WordPress Eleventy Zola Tina CMS Pelican Typecho October CMS django CMS Keystone Gridsome Orchard Core Metalsmith Publii Middleman Plasmic Pagekit Umbraco Joomla Statamic Mezzanine ApostropheCMS Drupal Pico Pimcore Craft CMS Microweber Anchor CMS Squidex Keystatic Piranha CMS PublicCMS Publify Kirby Winter CMS Bludit MODX Revolution Sulu TYPO3 Fork CMS Vvveb ProcessWire Backdrop CMS OJS Cowyo Automad ClassicPress Concrete CMS Superdesk Cockpit Next WonderCMS Silverstripe CMS Typemill Wiki-Go Bolt Omeka WikiDocs Omeka S ImpressPages Datenstrom Yellow Expressa Contao GetSimple CMS Monstra CouchCMS Indexhibit REDAXO Subrion CMS Phile Razuna Pytition Formwork Localess Noosfero WBCE CMS PHPBoost Sphido 299Ko CMS Made Simple Pepettes Scovie Lionwiki FastAPI Gemserv DotClear 2 Faircamp my_capsule Neos Petites Annonces PureBlog SPIP ZwiiCMS
Feature Grav Wagtail Category Content Management Systems Content Management Systems License MIT BSD-3-Clause Language PHP Python Setup difficulty Easy Medium Min. RAM 256 MB 1,024 MB Deployment docker, bare-metal, source docker, bare-metal, source GitHub stars ★ 15,620 ★ 20,433 First released 2014 2014 Replaces WordPress, Squarespace Adobe Experience Manager, WordPress
Why pick each one
Choose Grav if… Trivial to back up and migrate Quick to set up Grav details Choose Wagtail if… Excellent editing experience Great for Python developers Wagtail details
Frequently asked questions Is Grav or Wagtail better? Neither is universally better. Wagtail has the larger community, while Grav is simpler to set up (easy difficulty). Choose based on the comparison table above and your own setup.
Are Grav and Wagtail free and open-source? Yes. Grav is licensed under MIT and Wagtail under BSD-3-Clause. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Grav and Wagtail with Docker? Grav: yes. Wagtail: yes.