NOTE: Although competitors may offer "free design skins" the quality varies dramatically.

† Clover sites are generic template based, but they are not free.

‡ Designs can theoretically be customized by a third party development firm.

Note: Aside from regular page based SEO Friendly URLs, Custom Redirects allow multiple unique shortcuts to be setup to access different pages on your site. We aren't aware that other CMS's have this feature, but will be glad to update the chart if we are incorrect.

† Clover allows some customization of the design templates through their CMS interface.

‡ Design and Functionality customization is theoretically possible by a third party development firm.

† You will be responsible for finding a hosting company and installing the CMS on your own server.

‡ Clover sites appear to run on a shared hosting platform (not free) that allows private domains but does not provide email hosting. For email they require Gmail integration.

† Clover sites are entirely Flash based, which means you cannot search a given page, and search engines only index the content from separate search engine friendly pages.

† Clover sites are entirely Flash based, which means they are not accessible to visitors without flash, or using text based browsers.

Note: Pro and Free Lite Gutensites are powered by a shared codebase that is updated on a daily basis to fix bugs, security updates, and implement new features. Pages that have been customized will likely remain upgrade compatible, but it depends on the extent of the customization.

† Open Source websites benefit from free upgrades to the codebase, but this will require manually installing the upgrades on the private server and these aren't guaranteed to be compatible.