Content & CMS

12 tools

Contentful

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API-first content infrastructure with a mature editor and ecosystem.

FreemiumNo card

10 users, 2 roles, 2 locales, 1M API calls and 50 GB CDN bandwidth/month.

headlessapi

DatoCMS

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Headless CMS with GraphQL delivery and a built-in image pipeline.

FreemiumNo card

3 team members, 2 environments, 300 records, 10 GB bandwidth and 100k API calls/month.

graphqlheadless

Decap CMS

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Open-source Git-based CMS for editing content in static-site repositories

FreemiumNo cardOSS

Free forever and self-hosted, no service-side quota. Decap Turbo early access starts at $37/month, or $29/month billed yearly, up to 3 users, 1 project; waitlist is free.

git-basedstatic-sitesopen-sourceself-hosted

Directus

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Database-first backend and headless CMS with instant REST, GraphQL and no-code Studio

FreemiumNo card

Core costs $0 with 3 user seats, 25 collections and 5 flows. Self-hosting is free, while Directus Cloud is a $99/month add-on for Core and Team.

headlessrest-apigraphqlself-hosted

Ghost

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Open-source publishing platform for blogs, newsletters, memberships and paid subscriptions

Trial onlyNo cardOSS

Ghost(Pro) starts with a 14-day free trial. Starter is $18/month billed yearly, 1 staff user, 1,000 members, 1 newsletter and 5 MB per-file uploads; self-hosted Ghost is free.

publishingnewsletteropen-sourcememberships

Hygraph

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GraphQL-native content platform for structured, multi-source content.

FreemiumNo card

Hobby: 3 seats, 2 locales, 100k API calls/month, 1 GB assets and 100 GB asset traffic.

graphqlheadless

Keystatic

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Git-based CMS that makes Markdown, YAML and JSON content editable from a web UI

FreemiumNo cardOSS

Keystatic Cloud Free allows unlimited teams and projects, up to 3 users per team. Pro starts at $10/month plus $5/user/month; local and GitHub modes self-host free.

git-basedmarkdownopen-sourceself-hosted

Payload CMS

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Open-source, code-first CMS and full-stack Next.js framework you can own and deploy anywhere

FreeNo cardOSS

Free self-hosted software forever. The official site currently lists enterprise hosting and support, but no public hosted free-tier quota or trial.

headlessnextjsopen-sourceself-hosted

Prismic

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Page-building CMS with reusable slices and visual previews for editors.

FreemiumNo card

Up to 4 users, unlimited documents and locales, 100 GB CDN and 4M API calls/month.

headlessslices

Sanity

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A customizable content workspace backed by a real-time content platform.

FreemiumNo cardOSS

20 user seats, 2 datasets, 10k documents, 100k API requests and 100 GB CDN bandwidth/month.

headlesscontent lake

Storyblok

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Headless CMS with a visual editor and component-based content model.

FreemiumNo card

One space, one user, 100k API requests/month and visual editing for small projects.

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WordPress

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Open-source CMS powering a large portion of the web, with plugins, themes and a built-in block editor.

FreeNo cardOSS

Completely free self-hosted software. Host it anywhere with PHP and MySQL.

cmsblogopen-source

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