--- title: "ExpressionEngine Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026" description: "Review of ExpressionEngine Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs." source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/expressionengine-profile/" page_type: "product" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Web Content Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/web-content-management/) / ExpressionEngine Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. Overview # ExpressionEngine Review From $299/one time Free trial 1 plan Wondering if ExpressionEngine is right for your organization? Our Web Content Management Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - User Reviews ## Overview ExpressionEngine 4.0 [(12)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/expressionengine-profile/#reviews) Pricing Starting at $299.00 one time ### About ExpressionEngine ExpressionEngine is a content management system (CMS) that helps organizations create and manage digital content for multiple websites. It allows content editors to preview the pages and modify the interface using custom colors and themes. The platform enables teams to capture and store content across multiple channels, design web pages using custom templates and configure workflows. Features of ExpressionEngine include role-based access, collaboration, SEO management, analytics, custom templates and more. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via phone, email and other online measures. Do you work for ExpressionEngine? 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Get a personalized pricing breakdown tailored to your specific needs—no guesswork, no generic estimates. ## ExpressionEngine Features - Popular features found in Web Content Management Content Personalization Content Publishing Options Drag & Drop Editor eCommerce Management Multi-Channel Distribution SEO Management Website Accessibility Tools - More features of ExpressionEngine Access Controls/Permissions Collaboration Tools Customizable Templates Electronic Forms Full Text Search Image Editing ## ExpressionEngine User Reviews ## ExpressionEngine customer ratings - Overall rating: 4/5 - Total reviews: 12 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 3 reviews (25%) - 4 stars: 7 reviews (58%) - 3 stars: 1 reviews (8%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (8%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 3.3/5 - Value for money: 3.9/5 - Customer support: 3.9/5 - Functionality: 3.8/5 --- Have you used ExpressionEngine and would like to share your experience with others? ### Easy Website Management - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Vicki F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Human Resources - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Because we have a web designer who is extremely familiar with this product, when we have issues, we reach out to him, but for the easier edits, we can do them ourselves without much of a problem. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros This product is helpful when we want to update and/or change our website. It behaves much like other website design programs. #### Cons It's not as easy to learn the system and int's not as intuitive as we would like. --- ### A great and flexible CMS - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I was in love with ExpressionEngine and used it for almost all my project (big and small) for 4 years or so. If you have a big project it can handle it like a charm! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros ExpressionEngine was one of the first CMS to support extensively custom fields. Via its plugin architecture it was possible to shape content to fit your needs. Moreover its template system was great and HTML free (meaning that you were in full control of the code). ExpressionEngine was a pricy CMS since two years ago when it eventually turned OpenSource, which is a great news. #### Cons The great template engine was not supported in the forum and member section of the site, so code this sections was a real pain... --- ### Great for Large Companies with Devs on Staff, Terrible for Smaller Companies - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Erik M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used other for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Are used to work for a company that specializes in ExpressionEngine installations in the heyday of EE2. The move from EE3 was messy and caused a lot of problems. Experience I have now with ExpressionEngine is helping client migrate their sites away and into more modern and well supported CMS platforms. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros From my personal experience, one of the best things about ExpressionEngine was EllisLabs and their customer support. A lot has changed after Ellis Labs was acquired and then ExpressionEngine was sold off 2-3 years ago. Development seems to proceeding smoother under the new ownership. Another great thing was the level of customization that could be done when building an ExpressionEngine site. Each website could be configured and custom-tailored to the particular client's needs. This made the CMS a great choice for large companies with web developers on staff. #### Cons It has a really difficult learning curve in my opinion. It can be overcome but website clients have a hard time with using it and maintaining the site without an in-house web developer. This platform was especially difficult for marketing managers with limited HTML knowledge. Overall, the small marketshare size, the lack of third party developer support, and the highly customizable nature of the initial installation all contribute to a high cost to produce and maintain an ExpressionEngine site. Unless you can afford an in-house web developer that is absolutely in love with ExpressionEngine, it's a terrible platform to choose. --- ### A useful CMS whose best days are behind it - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Michael H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used other for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have used ExpressionEngine for several sites, from basic four pagers to full ecommerce solutions. For a few years, ExpressionEngine was my "go to" CMS. However, over the years support has dried up, and it is no longer the first CMS I choose for a new project. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros When I started using ExpressionEngine I liked the variety and quality of add-ons and extensions that were available. It produced clean code, and was highly extensible. Built on CodeIgniter, it was relatively easy to customise with a little knowledge. #### Cons Over time, many of the add-ons and extensions have lost developer support. Many key development teams have left the platform. As such, it is harder to create sites that fulfil the requirements of clients. #### Reasons for choosing ExpressionEngine Quality of code. --- ### Very flexible and dynamic CMS - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Stephen J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It's a great CMS and I wouldn't hesitate to build any site or process on top of it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It's feature complete and extendable, UI isn't just an afterthought #### Cons Wordpress gets more plugins and more attention in general, so EE has smaller dev base --- ### Easy Admin of Users and Content Updating - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Restaurants - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Expression Engine makes it easy to train someone new or entry-level on administrating site content blocks as long as it's all set up properly for them. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I appreciate the ease of updating content. The channels and entries are easy to navigate and the tabs to easily check categories and other options such as post time and expiration time are most helpful. You can schedule content to post and also schedule when it comes down, so you don't have to do everything in real time. #### Cons I wish there were easier previews of the changes being made or a content editor that showed the page layout while you were editing. There just isn't an easy way to preview how the changes will appear on the actual page. --- ### No restrictions on what you can build - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Melissa C. - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2016 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It's hard to start with what's the best thing about ExpressionEngine (EE). Member management is definitely at the top, but the biggest thing for us is the ability to build whatever you want to build. EE is a blank slate and you decide what you want to build and how. That's great for developers that know the software. It can be intimidating for those that don't and are more use to a "plug and play" CMS. We've used EE on over 500 sites, from simple blogs, brochure sites, college websites to e-commerce sites to robust custom infrastructures. It never fails and the support is amazing. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros that we can build whatever we want with it and there are a ton of premium addons that build on to the core functionality #### Cons upgrading can be a challenge since sites are so uniquely built --- ### Good Foundation for Heavily Content Managed Apps, A Bit Dated - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Alyse E. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It was good for a period of time, but now we are transitioning to Craft. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros The platform was robust and allowed us to create a complex event management platform layered on top of Expression Engine. We were able to do most of the things we wanted and it served its purpose. #### Cons Popularity seems to be waning as more companies are shifting to Craft, which has a simpler interface and we find is easier to use. --- ### Great Website Building Tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Robin M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Publishing - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2016 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Our website designer used this program and it's been a lifesaver for our organization. There is a learning curve, but it's easy to learn. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Functionality is great and ease of using once you learn can save a business a lot of time and frustration. #### Cons There's a learning curve, but it's a small one --- ### Great for quick website edits - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is easy to navigate to the page you would like to edit, and is overall a very user-friendly platform. #### Cons I don't have experience actually building any of the pages, just editing/updating, so I can't speak to how simple it is to set up. --- Showing 1 - 10 of 12 Reviews Load More Reviews ## Other Top Recommended Web Content Management Software [Webflow](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/webflow-profile/) **4.5** (267) Recently recommended **1** times [WordPress](https://www.softwareadvice.com/web-content-management/wordpress-profile/) **4.6** (14997) Recently recommended **0** times [Duda](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/duda-profile/) **4.5** (214) Recently recommended **0** times [Conductor](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/79224-Conductor/) **4.7** (118) Recently recommended **0** times Stuck Between Options? 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