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Craft CMS vs Sulu
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Craft CMS and Sulu — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Craft CMS vs Sulu: at a glance
What is Craft CMS?
Craft 6 is being rebuilt on Laravel in public, one alpha at a time
Craft CMS is running its 6.0 line through rapid alphas, and each one moves another subsystem onto Laravel. Blade views can now be loaded inside Twig templates with Craft registering Blade directives for near parity; asset I/O resolves through Laravel filesystem disks; queue jobs resolve dependencies through the service container; user elements implement Illuminate's HasLocalePreference. SQLite is now a supported database, login is rate limited, and accounts can connect to Socialite providers.
What is Sulu?
Sulu ships 2.6 and 3.0 in lockstep, and the 3.0 line still reads like a maintenance branch.
Sulu is a Symfony-based CMS for developer-built sites, and its release process is a synchronised pair: every 3.0.x patch ships within a minute of the matching 2.6.x patch, carrying largely the same pull requests. Six releases in five months — 3.0.8/2.6.25, 3.0.7/2.6.24, 3.0.6/2.6.23 — are almost entirely fixes, editor upgrades and framework compatibility work. A security advisory was patched across both branches in March.
Craft CMS vs Sulu: editorial side-by-side
Craft CMS
6.3MKT AUTO
Craft 6 is being rebuilt on Laravel in public, one alpha at a time
◆ Current state
Craft CMS is running its 6.0 line through rapid alphas, and each one moves another subsystem onto Laravel. Blade views can now be loaded inside Twig templates with Craft registering Blade directives for near parity; asset I/O resolves through Laravel filesystem disks; queue jobs resolve dependencies through the service container; user elements implement Illuminate's HasLocalePreference. SQLite is now a supported database, login is rate limited, and accounts can connect to Socialite providers.
◆ Where it's heading
This is a framework transplant carried out in the open. The alphas move from templating and storage (alpha.10) through identity and asset handling (alpha.11, alpha.12) to session, queue and control-panel internals (alpha.13, alpha.14) — each step replacing a Yii-era mechanism with its Laravel equivalent. alpha.14 makes the cost explicit for the ecosystem: plugins must stop declaring extra.laravel.providers and lose automatic trait lifecycle hooks, while a new first-party control-panel component library (Button, ButtonGroup, Callout, Checkbox) arrives to replace ad-hoc markup.
◆ Prediction
Expect further alphas to continue converting Yii-era subsystems and to keep breaking the plugin contract until the component library and provider model settle; a beta is unlikely before plugin authors have a stable API to target.
Sulu
5.0MKT AUTO
Sulu ships 2.6 and 3.0 in lockstep, and the 3.0 line still reads like a maintenance branch.
◆ Current state
Sulu is a Symfony-based CMS for developer-built sites, and its release process is a synchronised pair: every 3.0.x patch ships within a minute of the matching 2.6.x patch, carrying largely the same pull requests. Six releases in five months — 3.0.8/2.6.25, 3.0.7/2.6.24, 3.0.6/2.6.23 — are almost entirely fixes, editor upgrades and framework compatibility work. A security advisory was patched across both branches in March.
◆ Where it's heading
Three threads run through the pairs. Editor upkeep is constant, with CKEditor moving to 47 LTS and then 48 and the fallout — table widgets, webpack font builds — fixed release by release. Framework compatibility is the second: Request->get calls replaced for Symfony 8, PHPUnit 13 and PHPStan kept green on lowest dependencies. The third and most interesting is data-model cleanup on the 3.0 side, where tags migrated from names to IDs behind a newly added DoctrineMigrationsBundle, with smart-content filters reworked to match. What is not visible is any capability that exists on 3.0 and not on 2.6 — a major version that is not yet behaving like one.
◆ Prediction
Expect the paired-release rhythm to continue with more Symfony 8 preparation and CKEditor 48 fallout. The open question is when 3.0 starts receiving work that is not upmerged from 2.6; until then the major version number is not buying users anything.
Alternatives to Craft CMS and Sulu
Other Mkt Auto products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Craft CMS or Sulu.
Eleventy
The v4 canary line is being renamed Build Awesome while 3.x is kept on pure maintenance.
Hugo
Steady feature-then-patch cadence, with security reports rising because AI tools are finding them
ClickFunnels
Measurement gets granular while the API quietly opens ClickFunnels up to outside agents
n8n
n8n's daily patch train hides the real work: hardening its MCP server into a proper auth resource.
OneSignal
OneSignal is arguing a new category into existence before showing the product behind it.
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Recent activity from Craft CMS and Sulu
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 9d agoCraft CMSCraft 6 alpha breaks the plugin contract and adds control-panel components
- 15d agoSuluSulu 3.0.8 validates selection filter params at build time
- 15d agoSuluSulu 2.6.25 adds a redirect after SSO login
- 15d agoCraft CMSCraft 6 alpha moves queue jobs onto the Laravel service container
- 16d agoCraft CMSCraft 6 alpha routes asset I/O through Laravel filesystem disks
- 24d agoCraft CMSCraft 6 alpha adds Socialite provider logins
- 29d agoCraft CMSCraft 6 alpha runs Blade inside Twig and adds SQLite support ⚡
- 2mo agoSuluSulu 3.0.7 fixes smart-content filtering and speeds up indexing
- 2mo agoSuluSulu 2.6.24 upgrades CKEditor to version 48
- 2mo agoSuluSulu 3.0.6 migrates tag names to IDs with Doctrine migrations
- 2mo agoSuluSulu 2.6.23 moves to CKEditor 47 LTS and preps Symfony 8
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Craft CMS and Sulu?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Craft CMS is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Craft CMS better than Sulu?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Craft CMS is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Mkt Auto products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Craft CMS?
Top Craft CMS alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Craft CMS alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/craft-cms for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Sulu?
Top Sulu alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Sulu alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/sulu for the full list with editorial commentary on each.