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Comparison · Mkt Auto
Sulu vs ClickFunnels
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Sulu and ClickFunnels — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Sulu vs ClickFunnels: at a glance
| Feature | Sulu | ClickFunnels |
|---|---|---|
| Sector | Mkt Auto | Mkt Auto |
| Velocity score | 5.0 | 6.3 |
| Sparks · 30d | 0 | 0 |
| Top themes | symfony-cms, dual-branch-releases, ckeditor, doctrine-migrations | funnel-analytics, revenue-attribution, api-surface, bot-protection |
| Last editorial update | 1h ago | 5h ago |
| Website | Visit → | — |
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.
What is ClickFunnels?
Measurement gets granular while the API quietly opens ClickFunnels up to outside agents
ClickFunnels ships in batched drops — typically two named features and one bundled "Improvements" post. The recent run is dominated by measurement: orders can be filtered by the funnel that produced them, the Opt-ins tab records every opt-in a contact submits rather than one row per person, and funnel analytics gained all-time and year-to-date ranges with revenue totals across every order type. Alongside that, Under Attack Mode gained a Strong tier issuing an interactive challenge per domain to stop card-testing bots. The remainder is builder quality-of-life and reliability work.
Sulu vs ClickFunnels: editorial side-by-side
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.
ClickFunnels
6.3MKT AUTO
Measurement gets granular while the API quietly opens ClickFunnels up to outside agents
◆ Current state
ClickFunnels ships in batched drops — typically two named features and one bundled "Improvements" post. The recent run is dominated by measurement: orders can be filtered by the funnel that produced them, the Opt-ins tab records every opt-in a contact submits rather than one row per person, and funnel analytics gained all-time and year-to-date ranges with revenue totals across every order type. Alongside that, Under Attack Mode gained a Strong tier issuing an interactive challenge per domain to stop card-testing bots. The remainder is builder quality-of-life and reliability work.
◆ Where it's heading
Two threads run underneath the cadence. The first is attribution: each of the last several feature drops answers a variant of "which funnel actually made the money", moving the product from counting contacts toward tracing revenue back through funnel steps and traffic sources. The second is surface area — the API expansion published on July 17 framed workflows, community management and bulk contact actions as reach for integrations and the AI agents built on top of them, which serves a different customer than the funnel builder the UI is aimed at. The anti-fraud tier is the defensive cost of a platform whose checkout pages are public and therefore targets.
◆ Prediction
The measurement thread has further to run: opt-in and order data are now step-level and funnel-level but not yet joined into one conversion view, which is the obvious next assembly. Whether the API push continues at the same pace is not readable from these entries — only one of the last ten touches it.
Alternatives to Sulu and ClickFunnels
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 Sulu or ClickFunnels.
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
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.
Kit (formerly ConvertKit)
Kit rebuilt its landing page editor, then handed the controls to an AI agent.
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Recent activity from Sulu and ClickFunnels
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoClickFunnelsð¡ï¸ Stronger Bot Protection with Under Attack Mode
- 1d agoClickFunnels𧩠Smoother Building in the Funnel Editor And More
- 1d agoClickFunnelsAgency add-on purchases, workflow dropdown and template-name fixes
- 8d agoClickFunnels𧾠Filter Orders by the Funnel That Made the Sale
- 8d agoClickFunnelsð¥ See Every Opt-In, Not Just Every Contact
- 8d agoClickFunnelsBroadcast audience-count and listing reliability fixes
- 15d agoSuluSulu 3.0.8 validates selection filter params at build time
- 15d agoSuluSulu 2.6.25 adds a redirect after SSO login
- 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 Sulu and ClickFunnels?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. ClickFunnels is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 0 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 Sulu better than ClickFunnels?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. ClickFunnels is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 0 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 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.
What are the best alternatives to ClickFunnels?
Top ClickFunnels alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "ClickFunnels alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/clickfunnels for the full list with editorial commentary on each.