Contentful
↗API-first content infrastructure with a mature editor and ecosystem.
FreemiumNo card
Free: 10 users, 2 roles, 2 locales, 1 Starter Space, 100k API calls and 50 GB CDN/month; intended for learning and exploration, not commercial use.
Content & CMS
12 tools
DatoCMS
↗Headless CMS with GraphQL delivery and a built-in image pipeline.
FreemiumNo card
Free forever: 2 editors, 3 projects, 300 records, 10 GB traffic, 100k delivery API calls/month and 200 MB file storage. No card required.
Decap CMS
↗Open-source Git-based CMS for editing content in static-site repositories
FreemiumNo cardOSS
Decap CMS remains free and MIT-licensed. Decap Turbo public preview has a no-card Free plan with 1 site and 1 seat; Pro trials require no card.
Directus
↗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.
Ghost
↗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.
Hygraph
↗GraphQL-native content platform for structured, multi-source content.
FreemiumNo card
Hobby: $0 forever, 3 seats, 2 locales, 1,000 entries, 500k API calls/month, unlimited asset storage and 100 GB asset traffic.
Keystatic
↗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.
Payload CMS
↗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.
Prismic
↗Page-building CMS with reusable slices and visual previews for editors.
FreemiumNo card
Free: 1 user, 2 locales, unlimited documents/types/assets, 4M API calls and 100 GB CDN bandwidth/month.
Sanity
↗A customizable content workspace backed by a real-time content platform.
FreemiumNo cardOSS
Free: 20 seats, 2 public datasets, 10k documents, 1M API CDN requests, 250k direct API requests, 100 GB assets and 100 GB bandwidth/month.
Storyblok
↗Headless CMS with a visual editor and component-based content model.
FreemiumNo card
Starter is free: 1 space, 1 included seat (max 2), 100k API requests/month, 100 GB traffic, 2 locales and 25k AI credits.
WordPress
↗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.
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