Varbase CMS Datasheet

Most enterprise Drupal projects spend their first sprints on work nobody remembers: security defaults, content types, editorial states, media handling, SEO. It needs to be done; it looks identical across projects and delays what the organization asked for. Varbase is that work, already applied, as recipes you can read before you run them.

Enterprise Drupal, ready on day one.

Varbase gives government, nonprofit, and enterprise teams a governed, AI-ready content platform on top of Drupal CMS. A build starts where most projects end: configured, secured, and ready for production.

At a glance

299 modules enabled out of the box on a fresh install
26 Varbase recipes, on top of Drupal core and Drupal CMS
0 forks. 100% Drupal core and contributed code
3 governed editorial states: Draft, Published, Archived

What’s inside the datasheet

Six pages, written for the people who have to build on it and the people who have to sign it off.

The three-layer recipe stack, and why there is no fork to maintain at upgrade time
All 26 Varbase recipes, named
How AI is granted role by role instead of switched on globally
Editorial workflow, SEO, media and multilingual defaults as they ship
Four screenshots from a live Varbase 11 install, not mockups
A one-page technical summary you can hand to an architect

a screenshot of Varbase internationalization recipe, Varbase workflow base, and Varbase content base — Every capability arrives as a named recipe with a stated scope. Your architects can read what a recipe changes before applying it.

Why teams choose Varbase

Weeks become days

The setup work most projects spend their first sprints on is already applied.

You own the platform.

Open source, no licence fee, no proprietary layer between your team and the code.

Upgrades stay a known path.

Every recipe layer tracks Drupal’s official roadmap, so the next release is a planned upgrade, not a rebuild.

Built and maintained by Vardot

A Diamond Drupal Certified Partner and Gold partner in the Drupal AI Initiative, with 200+ platforms launched since 2011 and 4.9 out of 5 across 60 verified Clutch reviews, for organisations including UNHCR, UNICEF, Boston Consulting Group, Georgetown University and Al Jazeera. Varbase is the distribution our teams build on, and we contribute back to the Drupal community.

Start in one command.

Varbase is public and free to download. Your team can stand up the platform on this page today, without talking to us first.

composer create-project drupal/varbase_project:~11 PROJECT_DIR --no-dev --no-interaction

Releases: drupal.org/project/varbase · Documentation: docs.varbase.vardot.com