Nucleus CMS
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Nucleus CMS, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Nucleus CMS's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Nucleus CMS | Free | Open-source CMS under the MIT license |
The facts
Each one read from Nucleus CMS's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access control
- Built-in role-based permissions let administrators manage roles, role groups, users, role assignments, and API access rights.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Content management
- It includes modules for text and HTML, static content, documents, links, multi-content, and media, plus page management tools for metadata and permissions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Custom user roles
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Databases and storage
- Supported databases listed are Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite, MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL; files can be stored locally, on a file server or SAN, or in Azure Storage or Amazon S3.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Developer tools
- The free Nucleus Developer Tools include Visual Studio templates, code analyzers, code fix providers, and MSBuild tasks for extension developers.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Downloads
- Install sets are listed for Windows x64, Linux ARM64, and Linux x64, plus a portable set for other platforms that support .NET Core.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Editing
- Editing mode provides controls to edit module content and settings, move modules, and make inline changes to supported module content.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Extensible
- Users can install extensions from within the application, and .NET developers can build web applications and extend layouts, modules, search, and file system providers.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Hosting
- The maker lists Windows, Azure App Service, Docker, and Linux hosting options.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Listed extensions include OAuth and SAML single sign-on, Azure Storage and Amazon S3 file storage, Google Analytics, and search providers such as Elastic Search, Azure Search, Typesense, and Google Custom Search.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Observability
- Nucleus supports OpenTelemetry and OpenMetrics metrics, including a metrics endpoint and optional export to an OpenTelemetry collector; logging and tracing are not currently implemented as instrumentation features.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Page management
- Pages can be organized hierarchically, configured with metadata and layouts, assigned paths and redirects, and given role-based view or edit permissions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- Nucleus is an open-source .NET Core/MVC-based web application framework and content management system.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Search
- The extensible search system automatically indexes content and provides full-text search.checked 12 Oct 2026
- SEO tools
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
The company
- Maker
- Inventua says it develops custom software solutions and identifies itself as the developer of Nucleus CMS.checked 12 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platform type
- self_hostedchecked 23 Sep 2026
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