Cloud headless CMS with GraphQL delivery and click-to-edit visual editing
DatoCMS is a cloud headless CMS with a GraphQL delivery API, per-field localization and click-to-edit visual editing on every plan. It is SaaS only, with a free plan and a Professional plan from €149 a month billed annually.
DatoCMS is a cloud-based headless CMS. There is no self-hosted version; the docs describe a SaaS product. Content is delivered through a GraphQL Content Delivery API, with a Content Preview API and a Real-time Updates API. A REST Content Management API handles writes, and Images and Video APIs sit alongside them. A global CDN covers 200 cities in 90+ countries.
Visual editing is included on every plan, including Free. It offers click-to-edit and a Visual Mode, and the vendor introduced it in February 2026. Localization works per field, with optional or required locales and per-locale publishing. Developers get sandbox environments, migration scripts and a Plugin SDK with 200+ plugins.
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Free
No payment. Hard limits: service stops when they are exceeded.
Small projects and trials
Costs extra
No overages are allowed on this plan.
€149 per month, billed annually
€149 per month billed annually, or €199 per month billed monthly.
Teams and agencies running production sites
Costs extra
Overages: extra project €39/mo, extra sandbox environment €39/mo, extra collaborator €9/mo, extra locale €19/mo, 10 extra models €10/mo, 10k extra records €9/mo, 150 GB extra traffic €29/mo, 1M extra delivery API calls €9/mo.
Custom
Custom price, payable by card or wire.
Organizations that need SSO, workflows and SLAs
Costs extra
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Free, included in the cheapest plan, on a higher plan, or enterprise only. Open a feature to compare it across every platform.
