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Mautic vs Craft CMS
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Mautic and Craft CMS — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Mautic vs Craft CMS: at a glance
What is Mautic?
Mautic is patching three supported branches at once while 7.2 grinds through release candidates.
The project maintains 5.2, 6.0, and 7.1 simultaneously, and it showed: one coordinated security release patched SQL injection, SSRF, and server-side template injection across all three branches on the same day. Since then the visible work has been a 7.1.3 bugfix rollup — campaign restart and infinite email-resend loops, GrapesJS builder regressions — and a 7.2 release candidate line now on its second RC, tagged in late July with no compiled release notes.
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.
Mautic vs Craft CMS: editorial side-by-side
Mautic
5.0MKT AUTO
Mautic is patching three supported branches at once while 7.2 grinds through release candidates.
◆ Current state
The project maintains 5.2, 6.0, and 7.1 simultaneously, and it showed: one coordinated security release patched SQL injection, SSRF, and server-side template injection across all three branches on the same day. Since then the visible work has been a 7.1.3 bugfix rollup — campaign restart and infinite email-resend loops, GrapesJS builder regressions — and a 7.2 release candidate line now on its second RC, tagged in late July with no compiled release notes.
◆ Where it's heading
This is maintenance-shaped output from a community project carrying a wide support matrix. The 7.2 RC notes are dominated by dependency bumps, refactoring, and developer-experience work rather than new marketing automation capability, and the campaign engine keeps surfacing scheduling bugs that suggest that subsystem is where the complexity sits. A second RC without notes points to stabilisation rather than late feature additions.
◆ Prediction
Expect 7.2.0 to reach stable off the current RC line, and expect any further fixes to be backported across all three supported branches as the coordinated May security release was.
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.
Alternatives to Mautic and Craft CMS
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 Mautic or Craft CMS.
Joomla
Three release lines in parallel, and changelogs that publish checksums instead of changes
Customer.io
Location becomes a trigger, Twilio stops being the only SMS path, and the LLM layer gets a memory
Buttondown
Buttondown ships something almost every day, and most of it is somebody's bug report.
Systeme.io
Systeme.io's feed is an unbroken run of customer success stories, not a changelog.
Customer.io
Customer.io's summer wave pushes messaging into location triggers and live device surfaces.
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Recent activity from Mautic and Craft CMS
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 3d agoMautic7.2.0-rc2: second release candidate on the 7.2 line
- 8d agoCraft CMSCraft 6 alpha breaks the plugin contract and adds control-panel components
- 14d agoCraft CMSCraft 6 alpha moves queue jobs onto the Laravel service container
- 15d agoCraft CMSCraft 6 alpha routes asset I/O through Laravel filesystem disks
- 23d agoCraft CMSCraft 6 alpha adds Socialite provider logins
- 23d agoMautic7.1.3 fixes campaign resend loops, restores GrapesJS typography
- 28d agoCraft CMSCraft 6 alpha runs Blade inside Twig and adds SQLite support ⚡
- 1mo agoMautic7.2.0 RC: dependency cleanup and configurable campaign cache TTL
- 2mo agoMautic7.1.2 security release patches SQL injection, SSRF, and SSTI
- 2mo agoMautic6.0.9 backports the SQL injection, SSRF, and SSTI fixes
- 2mo agoMautic5.2.11 backports the same three security advisories
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Mautic and Craft CMS?
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 Mautic better than Craft CMS?
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 Mautic?
Top Mautic alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Mautic alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/mautic for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
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.