Competition Comparison
Take a look at the membership website software comparison chart below to see why you should choose Caribou CMS for your membership website.
| Caribou CMS | MemberGate | SubHub | Wild Apricot | aMember | iSubscribe | |
| Features | ||||||
| Total Website Solution | ||||||
| Easy content creation and management | ||||||
| Streaming video support | ||||||
| Online storefront | ||||||
| Protected downloadable products | ||||||
| Automatic member signup | ||||||
| Affiliate software included | ||||||
| Multiple blog management | ||||||
| Simple form creation | ||||||
| Extendable with new content types | ||||||
| Installable on your own web hosting | ||||||
| Manual & automatic user signup | ||||||
| Content queue for restricted staff | ||||||
| Newsletters | ||||||
| Revenue reports | ||||||
| Integrations | ||||||
| phpBB Forum Integration | ||||||
| vBulletin Forum Integration | ||||||
| Automatic RSS feed generation | ||||||
| Easy API for developers to create integrations | ||||||
| One-click integration installation | ||||||
| Payment Gateway Integrations | ||||||
| Authorize.net | ||||||
| PayPal | ||||||
| First Data (LinkPoint) | ||||||
| E-xact/Chase Paymentech | ||||||
| InternetSecure | ||||||
| NetBilling | ||||||
| Offline Cheque/Money Orders | ||||||
| PSiGate | ||||||
| Sage Pay (Protx) | ||||||
| 2checkout | ||||||
| Your Site's Design | ||||||
| Multiple templates included | ||||||
| XHTML/CSS validated templates | ||||||
| Drag-and-drop Menu Builder | ||||||
| Web Design Services Available | ||||||
| Easy-to-use template editor | ||||||
| PHP Template Plugins | ||||||
| Price & Licensing | ||||||
| Price | $29 per month or $295 One-time Payment |
$4,000 for 1000 members or $30,000 for unlimited members |
$100 per month or $1000 per year |
$50 per month for 500 users or $200 per month for 15,000 users |
$180 | $44.41 |
| Licensing | No restrictions - unlimited users, content, revenue, newsletters, etc. 99% of the PHP source code is open source and editable. The look and feel of your site can be customized and added to in any way you see fit. You can download Caribou and install it on your web hosting or have us host it for you for only $14.95 per month (just select "Add Web Hosting" in the Licensees Center). | You're stuck on their web servers and under their full control and supervision. You pay a monthly fee and software customizations of any kind are not allowed - you are on a shared software platform with thousands of other sites. Your site's design will look like all other MemberGate sites as they use very old table-based web designs that are hard-coded into the software, ie. it's impossible to edit most of the look and feel of your site! | Just like with MemberGate, you're stuck on their web servers and under their full control and supervision. Your monthly fee gives you a spot on their web server that is shared with thousands of other clients. What does this mean for you? You are unable to customize any of the software because you share it with your neighbours. You can hire them to make design changes, though. | This is another hosted solution with a costly monthly fee and restrictions on software customizations because you are sharing the software and web server with thousands of other clients. Furthermore, they limit you on the amount of users who can signup to your site. | Like Caribou, this is a downloadable solution. However, it's not a total website solution: aMember will only manage your members and subscriptions, leaving you to find another piece of software to manage your site. Then, you have to make the two pieces of software communicate and work together to protect your content. | Like aMember, this isn't a total website solution. It provides only a very simplified member management and order form that doesn't integrate with any other software other than with old .htaccess files (Apache configuration files). |
