REDAXO
The facts below are what the maker publishes about REDAXO, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From REDAXO's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| REDAXO CMS | Free | PHP 8.3+ · MySQL 5.6+ or MariaDB 10.1+ · self-hosted installation · Free; licensed under MIT |
The facts
Each one read from REDAXO's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Commercial use
- REDAXO 5 and later are available under the MIT License for free use, including commercial use.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Content editing
- Administrators define modules that editors can use to place flexible content blocks in articles.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Content structure
- Categories organize the site structure, while articles hold publishable content.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Custom content types
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Custom user roles
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Editorial workflows
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Extensions
- AddOns and plugins extend REDAXO, and the site cites search, newsletters, communities, URL rewriting, and data management as examples.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Hosting requirements
- The current core download lists PHP 8.3 or later and MySQL 5.6 or MariaDB 10.1 as minimum requirements.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The site describes REDAXO as a flexible CMS designed for agencies building varied and unusual web projects.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Media library
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Media management
- The media pool stores and organizes files such as images, video, and PDFs, and can upload files directly to the web server.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Multilingual content
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Notable limitation
- The overview says REDAXO is less of an out-of-the-box system and positions its website demos as a starting point for building a site.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Other features
- The feature list includes multilingual site management, link management, project backup import and export, and user permissions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- REDAXO is an open-architecture content management system that can also be used for information management solutions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security
- The team page thanks contributors for reporting security vulnerabilities, but the pages opened do not state a security certification or compliance standard.checked 11 Oct 2026
- SEO tools
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Support
- The REDAXO Slack chat is described as the first contact point for questions about REDAXO.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Templates and output
- Templates separate content from layout, and REDAXO gives users control over its HTML and JavaScript output.checked 11 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 1999checked 19 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Frankfurt, Germanychecked 19 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platform
- The overview describes working across systems and platforms through a web browser.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Platform type
- self_hostedchecked 23 Sep 2026
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