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From $300Free planG2 4.3 · 399 reviews

Growing businesses with developers, several locales or multi-channel content, and the budget for a paid plan.

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Quick overview

Pricing
Free; Lite $300/month
Plans
Free plan ($0, for learning and exploring): 10 users, 2 roles, 2 locales, 100K API calls/month, 50 GB CDN bandwidth, no overages; one Starter Space with 25 content types and 10,000 records. Lite: $300/month, 20 users, 3 roles, 3 locales, 1M API calls/month, 100 GB CDN bandwidth, scheduled publishing, comments and tasks; an extra Lite Space is $850/month. Enterprise: custom pricing. Front-end hosting and development are separate costs.
G2 rating
4.3 / 5.0
Comparisons
Featured in 3 comparisons

Key features

  • Structured content models with references and validation
  • Scheduled publishing, comments and tasks on Lite
  • REST and GraphQL APIs, SDKs, CLI and webhooks
  • Locales for translated content
  • Enterprise options for personalization and governance

Pros

  • Mature, well-documented platform
  • Clear structure for many editors and locales
  • Strong APIs and integrations
  • Good scheduling and workflow tools on paid plans

Cons

  • Steep jump from free to $300/month
  • Needs a developer to build and maintain the site
  • Free plan limits are hard caps
  • More platform than most small business sites need

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Stay with Contentful only if you need its enterprise governance and SLAs. For most teams leaving it, Sanity is the best all-round alternative, with Strapi as the open-source pick.

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