Where Drupal earns its keep on a corporate build, what it costs, and the cases where we would steer you to WordPress instead.
Drupal's strengths line up with what bigger companies actually need: editorial workflows, role-based access, taxonomy that holds up at 10,000 pages, and multilingual that is native rather than bolted on.
Drupal's roles and permissions are granular in core. Marketing edits pages, legal approves them, contractors see only their section. There is no plugin stack to bolt access control onto.
Four core modules translate content, interface, configuration, and taxonomy. We have shipped sites in 12 languages where every field, menu, and date format localizes. WordPress needs Polylang or WPML to get close.
Fields, content types, and taxonomy are first-class in Drupal. A 15,000-page site with press releases, investor docs, product specs, and events stays queryable instead of turning into a pile of loose pages.
Salesforce, SAP, single sign-on through SAML or LDAP, headless front ends via JSON:API in core. Drupal is usually the CMS that talks to the rest of a corporate stack without a separate middleware project.
Drupal's security team vets contributed modules and publishes coordinated advisories. For regulated industries and public-sector procurement, that record clears compliance reviews WordPress often cannot.
Content moderation, draft and review and publish states, and full revision history ship with Drupal 10. Editors work without a developer wiring up a workflow plugin for every content type.
If you have complex approval chains, a dozen integrations, or a content model that does not fit an off-the-shelf theme, we build the site from the content architecture up: content types, workflows, migration from your old CMS, and a front end your editors can actually run.
Drupal is overkill for a five-page brochure site, or for a marketing team that wants to change everything itself without a developer on call. If that is you, WordPress is cheaper to build, cheaper to host, and easier to hand off. We build both, so we have no reason to push you toward the bigger bill.
Adobe Commerce (formerly Magento) is the heavyweight of open-source ecommerce — built for B2B, multi-store, multi-warehouse retail at scale. Powerful but demanding: serious projects only, served by senior engineers.
A lean, free, MVC-architected ecommerce platform that runs on standard LAMP hosting. Strong fit for small-and-mid-business stores that need flexibility without Magento's overhead or Shopify's monthly tax.
WordPress powers 43% of websites worldwide — from solo blogs to enterprise corporate sites. We build, support, and customize WP projects from $99/mo.
A configured Drupal 10 site on a quality theme with content migration starts around $6,000. A custom build with your own content model, approval workflows, and a few integrations is usually $15,000 to $40,000. Large enterprise platforms with SSO, multilingual, and ERP sync run higher. Drupal hosting on Acquia, Pantheon, or Platform.sh typically runs $100 to $1,000+ per month depending on traffic.
For a mid-to-large company with structured content, multiple editor roles, and integration needs, yes. For a small marketing site that one person updates, no, WordPress is cheaper and easier. We build both and have no reason to oversell either.
A packaged build is 6 to 10 weeks. A custom enterprise platform with migration and integrations is 3 to 6 months. The content model and the migration are usually what set the timeline, not the design.
Yes. Drupal 7 reached end of life in January 2025, so this is a common job right now. We map your old content types to Drupal 10, run the migration on staging, and rebuild any custom modules that did not survive the version jump.
This is one of its strongest areas. Translation of content, interface, configuration, and taxonomy is in core. We have built corporate sites where 12 language versions share one content model and editors translate in place rather than maintaining separate sites.
Drupal has a dedicated security team and a coordinated disclosure process, and it is used by governments and banks for that reason. Security still depends on hosting, updates, and how the site is built, but the platform itself clears most procurement and compliance checks.
Yes. There are maintained modules for Salesforce, and JSON:API plus the REST modules are in core for custom ERP and CRM bridges. SSO through SAML or LDAP is well supported. Most corporate integration work on Drupal is configuration plus a thin custom module, not a from-scratch build.
We do, if you want. Drupal needs security updates applied promptly, the same as any CMS. We offer maintenance plans, or we hand off documentation and train your team to run it.
Drupal is the CMS we reach for when a corporate site has real complexity behind it: several editor roles, content that has to stay structured across thousands of pages, multilingual that cannot be an afterthought, and integrations with the systems a company already runs. It powers sites for the Economist, NASA, and a long list of universities and governments for those reasons.
It is not the right tool for every company. If your site is a few pages and one person edits it, a WordPress corporate build will cost less and be easier to hand off. We are upfront about that because we build both.
Below is where Drupal earns its place on a corporate project, roughly what it costs, and the services we offer around it. Start with the Drupal overview if you want the platform in general, or read on for the corporate angle.
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