Free
FreeFree
Learning and exploring the platform
- 10 users, 2 roles
- 2 locales
- 100K API calls / month
- 50 GB CDN bandwidth / month
Costs extra
Hard usage caps, no overages.
Contentful is the most widely adopted API-first headless CMS. It is strong on structured content, APIs and a large app ecosystem; its AI features help editors but stop short of a governed, multi-step pipeline.
Overview
Contentful pioneered the API-first headless CMS and is used by large brands to feed websites, apps and other channels from one structured content hub. Its marketplace and App Framework make it easy to connect translation, commerce and personalization tools.
Strengths
- Mature content modeling, environments and per-locale fields.
- REST and GraphQL APIs with good SDKs and documentation.
- Large app marketplace and partner ecosystem.
- Scales across many spaces, sites and locales.
Watch out for
- AI features are editor helpers built on third-party models, not an end-to-end automated workflow.
- Costs climb with locales, spaces and usage.
- Visual page building needs add-ons or custom work.
Pricing
What each plan costs and what the bill is counted by: seats, sites, usage or a one-off license. The bottom of each card shows what you pay on top.
Lite
Flat fee$300 / month
Smaller businesses managing a single project
- 20 users, 3 roles
- 3 locales
- 1M API calls / month
- 100 GB CDN bandwidth / month
Costs extra
Extra API calls $5 per 1M per month. Extra asset bandwidth $0.15 per GB.
Premium
Custom quoteCustom
Bought through Contentful's sales team.
Organizations with several use cases and spaces
- Custom users, spaces and locales
- No API call overages within limits
- Enterprise security and support
Costs extra
Price scales with the number and complexity of use cases.
Prices checked See current prices on the vendor's site
Features
Free, included in the cheapest plan, on a higher plan, or enterprise only. Open a feature to compare it across every platform.
AI content tools
Tiered
AI Actions for content generation, built on third-party models
AI translation
Tiered
AI Actions for translation
Content modeling
Free
References and validations
Environments
Tiered
Environments and aliases for safe releases
GraphQL API
Free
Alongside the REST API
Headless API
Free
REST API with SDKs and documentation
Localization
Tiered
Per-locale fields; costs climb with locales
Plugins and apps
Free
App Framework and marketplace
Visual editing
Tiered
Visual page building needs add-ons or custom work
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