The page, not just the embed
The interactive section and the site around it share one design system and one publishing flow, instead of an embed sitting inside a page built elsewhere.
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Modulify vs Ceros
Ceros is built for interactive marketing content: the animated infographic, the interactive report, the scrolling campaign piece, usually embedded into a site that already exists. Modulify builds that site. The two are not really substitutes, and the useful question is whether you need a specialist tool for interactive pieces or whether generated pages on your own platform already cover it.
Modulify and Ceros, side by side
Adjacent tools. Worth being clear about which problem you have.
| Capability | Modulify | Ceros |
|---|---|---|
| What it produces | A complete website with pages, CMS, data, and publishing. | Interactive content pieces, typically embedded in an existing site. |
| Rich interactive storytelling | Considered motion and interactive sections, not a bespoke animation studio. | The core purpose, with fine control over animation and interaction. |
| Running the site around it | The whole site, hosted and published, with a CMS behind it. | Not its job. The surrounding site lives elsewhere. |
| Content management | Structured collections your whole team edits. | Pieces are designed individually rather than driven by a CMS. |
| Data, forms, and accounts | Included. Submissions land in a database you own. | Interactions and engagement, with data passed to your stack. |
| Who builds it | Anyone who can describe the page. | Designers working in its studio environment. |
What it produces
ModulifyA complete website with pages, CMS, data, and publishing.
CerosInteractive content pieces, typically embedded in an existing site.
Rich interactive storytelling
ModulifyConsidered motion and interactive sections, not a bespoke animation studio.
CerosThe core purpose, with fine control over animation and interaction.
Running the site around it
ModulifyThe whole site, hosted and published, with a CMS behind it.
CerosNot its job. The surrounding site lives elsewhere.
Content management
ModulifyStructured collections your whole team edits.
CerosPieces are designed individually rather than driven by a CMS.
Data, forms, and accounts
ModulifyIncluded. Submissions land in a database you own.
CerosInteractions and engagement, with data passed to your stack.
Who builds it
ModulifyAnyone who can describe the page.
CerosDesigners working in its studio environment.
This comparison reflects each product’s publicly stated positioning and our own reading of where it is strongest. Ceros is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with Modulify. Products change quickly, so check anything that would decide your choice before you commit to it.
Where Modulify pulls ahead
Where owning the whole surface is the advantage.
Engagement you can act on
Form submissions and interactions land in your own database, where you can query them and build an internal view rather than reading a separate report.
No specialist studio
Campaign pages are described rather than composed in a dedicated design environment, so the marketer who wants the page can produce it.
An embed still needs a site
The interactive piece is rarely the whole campaign.
Interactive content tools produce a piece that has to live somewhere: a landing page, a resource hub, a campaign section, all of which someone else builds and maintains. If the surrounding site is already handled, a specialist tool for the centrepiece can be a reasonable addition. If it is not, you are choosing a tool for the interesting ten percent before you have solved the other ninety.
Where Ceros is the better choice
Where Ceros is the right tool for the job.
Interactive depth
Animation, scroll-driven storytelling, and interaction well beyond what a general website platform applies by default. If the piece is the campaign, that depth matters.
A studio for designers
A design environment built specifically for interactive work, familiar to teams who already produce this kind of content regularly.
Fits an existing stack
Designed to embed into whatever site you already run, which is exactly right when replacing that site is not on the table.
What comes with a Modulify site
Included from the free plan up, not sold as separate services.
1place for design, content, data, and publishing
100+connectors to build against your real data
$0to start, with a live subdomain, database, and analytics
Modulify vs Ceros, answered
What teams ask when they are deciding between the two.
Only partly, and it is worth being clear about that. Modulify builds the site, the CMS, and the data behind it. Ceros builds rich interactive pieces to embed. If your need is a highly animated interactive centrepiece, Ceros is the specialist.
It builds pages with considered motion and interactive sections, and because a project is a real application it can go further with custom behaviour. It is not a dedicated animation studio and does not claim to be.
Yes. A Modulify page can embed third-party content like any website, so the two can sit alongside each other if you already produce interactive pieces.
Form submissions land in your own database on the same platform, and visitor analytics are built in, cookieless, and need no consent banner.
Build the site the campaign lives on
Describe the page and get the whole thing, hosted and ready to publish.
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