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Over five years, a proprietary CMS costs its license plus implementation, hosting, specialist skills, renewal increases, usage overages, forced upgrades, and exit. This guide compares those lines with open-source Drupal, covers the EU Data Act's 2027 switching-charge ban, and gives a worksheet for a TCO case a CFO can check.

With 95 Drupal AI providers, an enterprise CMS isn’t tied to one model vendor. Bring your own model from OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, or Azure, run it under your data terms, and plan token costs and governance approval before launch.