Contentful

Overview
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Contentful
Score 6.5 out of 10
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Contentful is a cloud based CMS solution that provides the ability to manage content across multiple platforms.The editing interface allows for managing content interactively and provides developers the ability to deliver the content with the programming language and template framework of their choice.
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Pricing
Contentful
Editions & Modules
Lite
$300
per month
Community
Free
Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Contentful
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Contentful
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Contentful
Chose Contentful
Easy to use and much more organized as a single platform versus multi. The layout is clean and easy to read and we don’t have to worry about certain users safe guarding data or content then losing it when they leave the company. It’s a one stop shop for imagery.
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Contentful was affordable and much simpler than the Java based systems and preferred over a PHP solution
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In the past we've used WordPress to manage documentation content. WordPress was more flexible than Contentful but also prone to inconsistencies and we ended having a lot of hacks to accomplish various WordPress tricks. With Contentful there's less ambiguity so content producers …
Chose Contentful
Contentful offers a great deal of features for a relatively low price. This is what ended up persuading us to purchase it. We also gathered that this was one of the more well-rated products out there, which was encouraging. It definitely stacks up well against its competitors.
Chose Contentful
For custom solutions, Contentful blows every other CMS I've used out of the water. Unlike WordPress, there's no clutter to wade through, and you can simply build the infrastructure you need. It's more secure by far, and works seamlessly with modern frontend technologies, like …
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Contentful was the most user-friendly platform that everyone in our company could understand. It doesn't have the integrations that WordPress does, but it was easier for everyone in our organization to use. We've also seen good ranking and traffic from the pages created in …
Chose Contentful
Contentful is easy and fast and cheap. I went from zero experience to loading data out of my contentful space in about an hour or more. The cost is very reasonable and compared to options like CloudCMS are a fraction of the cost. The benefit is that with a lower cost entry …
Features
Contentful
Security
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Contentful
7.3
8 Ratings
10% below category average
Role-based user permissions7.38 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
8.0
9 Ratings
5% above category average
API8.38 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language7.76 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
7.7
10 Ratings
0% below category average
WYSIWYG editor7.34 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.56 Ratings
Admin section8.08 Ratings
Page templates7.64 Ratings
Library of website themes7.52 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design7.75 Ratings
Publishing workflow8.09 Ratings
Form generator7.01 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
8.0
9 Ratings
8% above category average
Content taxonomy8.08 Ratings
SEO support7.07 Ratings
Bulk management7.75 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.56 Ratings
Community / comment management9.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Contentful
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(10 ratings)
User Testimonials
Contentful
Likelihood to Recommend
Contentful
Contentful is well suited for folks who want a simple, clean, easy-to-use interface for a JAVASCRIPT website. If you do not want a javascript website you should look [elsewhere].
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Pros
Contentful
  • Clean, modern interface (not clunky and outdated, like WordPress)
  • High degree of flexibility (I can structure data any way my clients need)
  • Enables headless frontend (i.e. I can build any frontend I want without having to change my CMS)
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Cons
Contentful
  • The new Contentful "branches" feature looked promising (it appears to mirror a git-like repository) but it requires the CLI, which isn't necessarily practical for teams that aren't current CLI users. It would be nice if the management of this feature were available via the UI (without that it causes more confusion than anything).
  • The Contentful data modeling method makes for a bit of an awkward SDK developer experience in some strongly typed languages like Java. Most things that you might need can be accomplished, but it feels like the experience could be smoother.
  • It would be nice if there were a way to migrate data between spaces (e.g. from your staging space to production).
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Contentful
Easy to use and much more organized as a single platform versus multi. The layout is clean and easy to read and we don’t have to worry about certain users safe guarding data or content then losing it when they leave the company. It’s a one stop shop for imagery
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Return on Investment
Contentful
  • There was no negative impact as such.
  • Positive impact is increase in sales.
  • More work is delivered due to reusability and other features within a time and less manual effort.
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