Umbraco vs Wagtail

Both are self-hosted content management systems (cms) projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Wagtail scores 91 against Umbraco's 84, putting it slightly ahead on the strength of a stronger recent trend and a larger community. That measures project health, not feature fit — Umbraco may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	Umbraco	Wagtail
Health score	84/100	91/100
Commits (11 mo)	2786	1341
Commits (last 3 mo)	691	608
Stars	5.3k	21k
Latest release	17 Sept 2026	25 Aug 2026
Licence	MIT	BSD-3-Clause
Built with	.NET	Python
Typical RAM	2 GB	1 GB

Umbraco

The friendly CMS. Free and open source with an amazing community.

84/100

Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 37/40

Releases 25/25

Community 13/20

Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 93% of tracked projects; popularity more than 67%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

Wagtail

Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience.

91/100

Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 34/40

Releases 25/25

Community 18/20

Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 84% of tracked projects; popularity more than 88%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted content management systems (cms).