Umbraco CMS 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Umbraco CMS

4.1

(21)

Pricing

Starting at $55.00 per month

About Umbraco CMS

Umbraco is a cloud-based content management system that helps marketers, developers and businesses create, modify, update and publish newsletters, logos, images, text and other content. The platform lets organizations define custom workflows to handle operations related to website designing, development, content editing and more on a unified portal.

Umbraco includes customizable web forms, which enable marketing professionals to create and embed personalized forms and define validation conditions, instances and data input rules to collect information from customers. It offers a variety of features such as custom domains, integrated development environment, authentication management, custom certificates, and more. Additionally, editors and developers can collaborate on projects and make modifications using the content flow functionality.

Umbraco facilitates integration with a host of third-party applications like Terratype, Raptor, Vorto, Uintra, Cludo, Plumber and more. It is available for free and on monthly subscriptions and support is extended via phone, email and other online measures.

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Umbraco CMS Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $55.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Umbraco CMS

$0.00

flat rate, per month

No plan information available

Umbraco Cloud

$55.00

flat rate, per month

No plan information available

Umbraco Heartcore

$75.00

flat rate, per month

No plan information available

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Umbraco CMS 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 Umbraco CMS
A/B Testing
Access Control
Activity Dashboard
Activity Monitoring
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
Analytics
API
Approval Process Control
Archiving & Retention
Audit Trail
Collaboration Tools
Configurable Workflow
Content Delivery
Content Management
Content Personalization
Content Publishing Options
Customizable Branding
Customizable Forms
De-Coupled Front & Back Ends
Digital Asset Management
Document Classification
Document Management
Drag & Drop
eCommerce Management
Electronic Forms
Engagement Tracking
Filtering
For Developers
For Marketers
Forms Management
Full Text Search
Indexing
Information Governance
Interactive Content
Media Management
Metadata Management
Mobile Access
Multi-Channel Distribution
Multi-Channel Management
Multi-Channel Marketing
Multi-Language
Performance Testing
Preview Functionality
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Rich Text Editor
Role-Based Permissions
Rule Based Publishing
Scheduling
SDKs
Secure Data Storage
Single Sign On
Social Media Integration
Tagging
Template Management
Templates
Third-Party Integration
Third-Party Integrations
Two-Factor Authentication
User Management
Web Forms
Website Accessibility Tools
Website Analytics
Website Management
Website Publishing Options
Workflow Management
WYSIWYG Editor

Umbraco CMS Integrations

HubSpot CRM

QBank

Semrush

commercetools

Cookiebot CMP

Zapier

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Umbraco CMS User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.1

Ratings Breakdown

33%

57%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.2

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.0

Functionality

4.1

Ali K.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2021

Powerful .NET-based CMS with the possibility of using the cloud or your servers

We have been using this CMS for many years and have used it for many of our clients' projects. There is also a two-week trial version that I think you should try and see how simple it is. It's Powerful .NET-based CMS with the possibility of using the cloud or installing on a local or custom web hosting server.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is completely open-source, dot NET-based, and works very fast and smooth. I like the form builder section which is very simple and various forms can be easily created and used. The file and image management section is also very simple. Files and images can be easily categorized and named in custom folders. Also, it has a professional community and support team.

Cons:

The online Photo editor is not professional enough and must upgrade. CMS has good facilities and performance on the windows servers and Microsoft Azure, but Umbraco developers must think about the Linux version because most projects are managed by Linux servers.

Reasons for choosing Umbraco CMS

It has great features and fair price, good community and professional support team.

Reasons for switching to Umbraco CMS

For a web project on Microsoft Azure, we needed a simple and open source CMS, it has all we need.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

Best CMS for .NET Developers

I love using Umbraco CMS to build customer's and my personal websites. Umbraco is open-source, free and written in .NET. Now, with Umbraco 9, it also support ASP.NET Core, which is cross platform. Now I can deploy my Umbraco website on Linux as well. Which is pretty cool. Umbraco is mature and has wide community support.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Umbraco setup is very easy, all you need is SQL Server database. I also like Umbraco's media management. I can store my media either on Azure Storage or in AWS S3 bucket. This way I can scale my website horizontally. And the last thing which I like most is this is completely written in .NET, that's a blessing for .NET Developers.

Cons:

Would love to see Umbraco supporting multiple database such as PostgreSQL and MySQL as they are open-source and free.

Reasons for choosing Umbraco CMS

I built few POC projects using Umbraco CMS. It was solving all of our needs. It was easy to used and fast to operate. That's all were the reason, we went with this.

Sunaina K.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2021

Not my first choice when it comes to CMSs

Overall, if you have in-house devs ready to roll up their sleeves and custom code stuff, Umbraco should work out just fine. But if you are looking for a CMS that 'just works' out of the box, you may want to keep looking. At least that has been my experience thus far.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

When you find your way around things, it is fairly easy to use. The pages can be updated fairly quickly and the WYSIWYG page editor is straightforward. What I liked the most was how quickly a page can be saved and published. But my list of gripes is probably longer than the stuff that I like.

Cons:

Basic stuff that should come out of the box like rel canonical tags etc. have to be custom coded - at least for the sites I have encountered. The search functionality within the CMS is horrible. While carrying out some image optimisation, it was impossible to find the images with their URLs. I had to put in the exact filename to find those images. Even then it was a hit or a miss which was not ideal. And even with a CDN in use, it was hard to get good PageSpeed scores with Umbraco.

Reasons for choosing Umbraco CMS

It was not my call!

Brian H.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2021

Umbraco - a great CMS option for .NET

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Umbraco can be built and extended with C# (using Visual Studio), utilizes MVC framework, and is simple to setup. The newest version of Umbraco is being built with .NET Core, so it will likely get faster and continue to stay relevant in today's Microsoft .NET tech stack.

Cons:

Occasional hiccups when starting are not uncommon. The errors provide less than ideal guidance on how to address them. Building your own property editor is done with Angular JS (older and less used as time goes on).

Reasons for choosing Umbraco CMS

Orchard I struggled to get working. It was slow and the content editing experience was not as good as Umbraco's. ButterCMS was looking like a good candidate and will likely be one that I try in the future for true headless CMS. Overall, Umbraco had the features I wanted, a fairly easy to customize backend, and the price (open source version) was right.

Redley P.

Verified reviewer

Computer Networking

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2023

Overall Review Of Umbraco CMS

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

-Free to use and customize-Easy to scale- Has strong community support- Great management features

Cons:

-Steep learning curve, especially for people unfamiliar with CMS software.-There is no official support and no drag-and-drop functionality.

Georgina M.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

Umbraco review

We used Umbraco as a system to build the Scouts website. It is extremely well labeled, clear and intuitive. I have found that members of my team who need to use the software for their role are able to pick it up and use it easily.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Umbraco is an easy to use system which I use daily in my role to build website pages, sharing information with members. Main features which I like the most are that the templates and content blocks are easy to build on for administrators with basic understanding of website building. The labelling is clear and there are a wide variety of content blocks available to add. I find that Umbraco helps to create content which can be accessed by everyone. Using F12 and the ability to see how the information is viewed by users on different devices extremely useful, as well as the ability to caption images on the site, to allow users with screen readers to understand the information. In the search facility, it's extremely useful for a membership Organisation like the Scouts to be able to use the SEO hide from searches function. This helps to ensure that the right information reaches the right group of volunteers.

Cons:

A feature which I think could be improved would be the ability to select and copy entire blocks from one website page to the next. It would also be useful to have more built in analytics of pages, rather than having to use additional add-ons like HotJar. An improvement to the software could be to use AI to improve the search function. When tagging in codex and the SEO, I spend time adding incorrect spellings of words in order for the webpage content to appear in the search bar if a incorrect spelling is made. It would be helpful if the system could identify regular incorrect spellings and add these as TAGs, so this doesn't have to completed manually.

Alissa L.

Verified reviewer

Publishing

51-200 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

UMBRACO is user friendly

Excellent!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

For the purpose of what my position needed to accomplish in Umbraco, it was easy for me to enter event details which would then post onto companies website. It was useful being able to categorize by year, then save the industry events accordingly. Entering the event details was extremely easy and even allowed us to enter the events hosts URL, which was then viewable on the company website. Anytime I needed to delete or edit an event, it was easy to do so. Depending on your needs, Umbraco may be able to help you.

Cons:

Unless I didn't figure this out, it would have been useful to be able to save the event allowing you to return to edit it (not post to website). More specifically, when I entered an event and needed to add a new event host name, I couldn't just save the entry, go to the tab to create a new host name and return to complete the entry. Instead, I had to reenter the event details after I created the new hosts name. Another suggestion would be to add the option of alphabetizing under the tabs or lists. Other than that, everything else was on point.

Jeremiah S.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

Umbraco is a great CMS

We have over 300 websites based on the umbraco CMS. They are currently continually evolving and developing it. Umbraco 9 will be .net core to add even more flexability

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Umbraco provides a lot of flexibility in setting up your website to give end users exactly how much or how little control and power over the content as you would like to provide them. It is very extendable with the ability to create about every type of web site you can imagine. It is built on microsoft .net currently which allows many developers to be able to dive in quickly to create solutions.

Cons:

The learning curve is higher than some other CMS's out there but with that comes the extra ability to customize it more than other sites as well. The back end admin side is also light on Accessibility features at least up until version 8.14 or so.

Rene S.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Goods

10000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

A CMS Dream

Absolutely loved it and would choose to only work in this CMS if possible.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of use, visual architecture/understanding where you were editing at all times, ability to access back-end configurations but logic to understand where they were located/how it related to front-end was extremely helpful. Good separation of code / content areas. Excellent media management and CDN with dynamic updating when an image/media file was replaced. Automation and features easily accessible/intuitive. Best user interface of any CMS on the market.

Cons:

The cache seemed to work differently (better) but within a larger IT framework the cache caused a lot of issues in workflows overall. Everything else was the best.

Reasons for choosing Umbraco CMS

Cost and no annual lic fee

Charlotte B.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

Umbraco

Generally good. Easy to use, and quick. Sometimes experience errors and deployment failures when too many users are in at the same time. Syncing issues from prep to prod cause problems.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use and easier to train other colleagues to use

Cons:

Basic functionality at times. Content pages could offer more features. Least thing i like is when you deploy to courier a set of pages, Umbraco isn't clever enough to understand what needs to be deployed in a certain order. Therefore links become broken and you have to re-link post courier and then courier again.

Reasons for choosing Umbraco CMS

Easy to use

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