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Headless CMS7 alternativesFreemium · $300/mo (Basic)

Alternatives to Contentful

Enterprise headless CMS.

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What is Contentful?
A headless CMS from Contentful — content is modelled and edited in its app, then delivered to any front end over APIs.
What does it do?
Teams define content models, edit entries and assets, and manage localisation, roles and publishing workflows. That content is served to websites, apps and other channels through REST and GraphQL APIs.
Who is it for?
Marketing and content teams at larger companies running several sites or apps off one content source, with developers building the front ends. Heavier than a single blog or brochure site needs.
What are the alternatives to Contentful?
Sanity is the closest hosted equivalent, with a customisable editing environment. Payload and Directus are self-hostable on your own database, and Keystatic and Decap CMS keep content in Git next to the code.

Pricing

$300/mo (Basic)

Freemium

About

Founded 2013

Berlin, Germany

Founders

The people behind Contentful.

Sascha KonietzkeCo-founder
Paolo NegriCo-founder

Top alternatives

Smaller, founder-led tools that quietly compete with Contentful.

Sanity website preview

Structured content platform.

Smaller-feeling than Contentful, with a great editor.

$15/seat/mo
Payload website preview

Open-source headless CMS in TypeScript.

Self-host, code-first, beautifully designed.

Free
Keystatic website preview

Git-backed CMS.

team behind Keystone, GitHub-based content.

OSS
Tina website preview

Open-source visual CMS.

Markdown/Git-backed, editor-friendly.

Decap CMS website preview

Open-source Git-based CMS.

Content lives as files in your Git repo, so there is no hosted content API to pay for.

Outstatic website preview

Open-source Next.js CMS.

Tiny CMS that lives in your repo.

Directus website preview

Open data platform.

Free, open-source headless CMS + data API.

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