MODX 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

MODX

4.6

(64)

Pricing

Starting at $30.00 per month

About MODX

MODX is a content management system that helps businesses of all sizes streamline operations related to content creation, resource management, permission control, and automatic failover handling, among other processes. It enables employees to create blogs, catalogs, landing pages, PDFs and forms with custom fields, menu, layouts and templates.

MODX's resource management module lets staff members create tree menus to handle and track digital assets across multiple platforms. Administrators can set up daily data backups and configure attribute-based access controls to ensure content security. It allows team members to create HTML templates for several items, such as navigation bar, footer, header and previews. Additionally, the snapshots and staging functionality lets employees clone sites and stage content.

MODX comes with an application programming interface (API), which allows businesses to integrate the platform with several third-party solutions. It is available on monthly and annual subscriptions and support is extended via FAQs, community forums, email and documentation.

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MODX Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $30.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$30.00

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MODX Features

Popular features found in Content Management
Access Controls/Permissions
Audio File Management
Content Library
Customizable Templates
Image Editing
Search/Filter
SEO Management
Text Editing
Version Control
Video Support
More features of MODX
API
Collaboration Tools
Configurable Workflow
Content Management
Content Publishing Options
Customizable Branding
Customizable Forms
Document Capture
Document Classification
Document Management
Document Storage
Drag & Drop
Electronic Forms
File Management
Filtering
Full Text Search
Metadata Management
Multi-Language
Secure Login
Single Sign On
SSL Security
Tagging
Template Management
Templates
Third-Party Integrations
Two-Factor Authentication
User Management
Website Management
Workflow Management
WYSIWYG Editor

MODX User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

69%

28%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.0

Value for money

5.0

Customer support

4.7

Functionality

4.3

Jamison M.

Verified reviewer

Internet

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Oh my goodness, MODX how I love thee, let me count the ways

Over nine years experience using MODX and would not trade it for the world. We love MODX, the community and stability of the platform.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I've been using MODX for more than 9 years. It is BY FAR the best CMS/CMF that I've EVER used. However, that comes with a nice, juicy grain of salt. I have the pleasure of working with a team that has dived head-first into MODX and has learned it inside and out. We KNOW MODX. We extend MODX daily and use it for all kinds of things, regular simple marketing sites, eCommerce, higher-functioning websites, web apps, and even as a headless css with custom API. It's secure, flexible and can handle ANYTHING we throw at it.

Cons:

If you're not a developer (either backend or frontend) you're going to have a hard time. MODX is NOT for those who are used to the relative simplicity of something like WordPress. And to be honest, that's for the best. MODX allows you to design and build whatever you want, keep it optimized and secure... BUT, if you're looking to just customize a theme, modx would NOT be a good fit

Peter B.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2023

Be the CMS

MODX offers me complete customization to tailor a website to my clients businesses needs. No two MODX websites are alike because MODX isn't a cookie-cutter CMS. I've deployed websites on just about every CMS and ran into one issue or another before I found MODX. I say “Yes!” to any client request knowing that there are at least 3 ways to address business needs as they respond to changing business environments.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Speed, SEO, Security, Flexibility, customization.

Cons:

There's nothing I dislike. Get yourself on the MODXcloud!

Reasons for choosing MODX

Because it's stressful and humiliating to tell clients large and small, “Nope, your CMS can't do that.” What ever client wants to hear is the most powerful word ever: “Yes”.

Reasons for switching to MODX

Because I couldn't solve a business need/challenge without spending a ton of time researching what Plugin promises to do this only to find that it doesn't follow best practice, allows sites to be easily hacked, too much work to make something simple function properly, no backups available, too much javascript that slows down site loading and thus decreasing your search engine rankings, no way to to customize SEO for each and every page without buying a plugin, etc.

Andreas K.

Verified reviewer

Internet

2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2023

Good idea, but outdated developer experience

We've created a complex website for a customer with MODX. We tried out MODX because the customer's designer gave a recommendation to us for using that tool. As we didn't know OctoberCMS back in those days we've been giving it a try. Overall it worked well and the website is still on and performs well, however we found the developer-experience too poor to use MODX with any other website.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Over all, the configurability and control over your code (frontend & backend) are pretty well. As a developer I can build any website and any plugin with that system.

Cons:

The UI and UX. Creating websites with snippets and partials and other code injection methods is way too complicated. There are no tabs to work on different snippets/sites parallel, to compare code etc.Also, there are poor keyboard-commands for the navigation through the contents. However if you like big clicking-orgies to create your website, MODX is the tool of choice.

Reasons for switching to MODX

Recommendation of a colleague.

Murray W.

Verified reviewer

Internet

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

This is the best CMS software available today. Easily.

Switching to MODX has been a dream. Our agency now saves so much development time and we end up with better quality products than we used to with other systems like Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal. I cannot recommend MODX enough. Our clients love it too!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Our agency Digital Penguin has switched to using MODX for nearly all our client projects now. It is the fastest, most flexible and secure Content Management System (CMS) that we've ever had the pleasure of using. There are no restrictions in how you implement a design and it's easily the best system for SEO as you have complete control over the HTML output. There is an amazing, friendly community of people using MODX who are eager to help you learn the system, and plugins/extras are available to extend the CMS in any way you need. Don't settle for Wordpress, Joomla or any other system you need to waste time wrestling with to customize the way you want. MODX is quick, easy to learn and designed to be customized.

Cons:

There's nothing I dislike about the software so far! With MODX 3 around the corner, things are only going to improve too.

saif r.

Verified reviewer

Textiles

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

What a great CMS for every beginner and its user frienly Environment is really excellent.!

I don't know what people think about this CMS But I always find a best solution for customization of the web and its services.Best SEO freindly CMS I have ever used for this lowest price.Our small business team really appreciate the company for the simplicity of the software. Thanks MODX for loving us.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The best feature of this software is that It is really easy to learn for every beginner.The SEO freindly web can easily customized due to open source code integration and third party plugin usage.

Cons:

Although every product have some prons and cons so MODX also have some of them.Some of the issue I have found that it stuck for some time If its not getting updated.Some features are hard to explore like importing exporting some files of having unique extensions.

Darlene M.

Verified reviewer

Online Media

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

Limitless Design & CMS Freedom - I always find myself choosing ModX when I need extreme flexibility

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's super that logic is separated from design. The base install does not include any extra fluff and unnecessary adds that one may or may not use. It's complete freedom and up to the end user to decide what functionality they would like or not. Whether one can code, are a php ninja or not, it's fairly easy to get a site up within a few hours. The more one knows how to code, php and more the more freedom they can have for more custom and extended functionality.

Cons:

Personally I don't see many cons at all with this software. If I had to change one thing, I would extend the documentation for many of the extra features which can be added on. Most of the documentation is super however sometimes I have to figure some thing out on my own. However ModX is so flexible, i'm willing to do so to keep the freedom that comes with it. There is also an active community in which one can join.

Nicolay K.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

Simple operation and openness

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

By developing the site you do not always know what features may be needed in the future. This system allows you to add blog or online store capabilities to landing page if necessary. Plugin code and page snippets are easily changed from the manager panel. You can add your own variables to any html page.

Cons:

You may need some level of knowledge of programming languages. Snippets from add-ons have a large set of functions, so you need to study the documentation if you need to make difficult selection conditions.

Aleksandr L.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

Excellent customization options

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I used MODX for a long time. This CMS most of all I liked the opportunity to create my own design for any menu using HTML. Later our company transferred some client sites to another CMS, but I only had positive impressions about MODX.

Cons:

I have not found any serious flaws. But for those who are thinking of starting to use CMS MODX, I will say: this engine has its own terminology to which you need to get used. This can be an obstacle if you have been using another CMS for a long time.

Ricky R.

Verified reviewer

Apparel & Fashion

Self-Employed

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

Perfect CMS for designers and those with limited web coding experience

Overall my experience with the modx content management system has being completely perfect. Because of its easy to use theming setup and syntax I can easy create a website design on my computer and by using simple html & css, easily implinent it into the modx ecosystem.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

What I like most about this software is its easy to use custom themeing syntax. While other content management systems require you to know actual programming languages such as PHP (hypertext preprocessor) or the Ajax programming langauge just to create and modify custom themes intended for their system, modx however does not. Modx only requires you to understand basic coding languages such as html,css,and sometimes javascript to create beautiful themes that rival the ones seen on its competitors sites.

Cons:

What I like least about this software has nothing necessarily to do with the software itself. In my opinion this content management system is a perfect solution and alternative to more complex systems out there. My only gripe is its lack of adoption among designers and developers alike. By having a easy to use themeing system you would think this package would be more prevelant among its competitors but thats simply not the case.

Jürgen R.

Verified reviewer

Medical Devices

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2019

Professional management system

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Many years ago, we transferred one of our work projects to MODX. It was not difficult to do this, the assistance of third-party programmers was not needed. For several years, we have been using this platform and we were quite pleased with it.

Cons:

We recently moved the site to another platform again because CMS MODX is not well indexed by search engines.

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