Contentful vs. Netlify Platform

Contentful

Netlify Platform

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Contentful	Score 6.1 out of 10	N/A	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.	$300 per month
Netlify Platform	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Netlify is a platform for developers from the company of the same name in San Francisco, used to build performant and dynamic web sites, e-commerce stores and applications. By uniting an ecosystem of technologies, services and APIs into one workflow.	$0

Pricing

Contentful

Netlify Platform

Editions & Modules

Lite: $300
per month
Community: Free
Enterprise: Custom

Starter: $0
Pro: $19
per month per user
Business: $99
per month per user
Enterprise: Custom Quote

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Contentful	Netlify Platform
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Contentful	Netlify Platform
Considered Both Products	Contentful Verified User Anonymous 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Contentful Didn't use other products Incentivized Helpful? Jennifer Garcia Web Marketing Manager Chose Contentful Contentful was affordable and much simpler than the Java based systems and preferred over a PHP solution Incentivized Helpful? EM Eric Mason Lead Developer Chose Contentful 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Richardson SEO Specialist 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. Incentivized Helpful? Nathaly Sierra Marketing Coordinator for FirstService Realty NYC Chose Contentful Very similar to WordPress, but has more organizational properties than square space. Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Folts Digital Strategist 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Contentful 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Darian Rawson Senior Designer 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 … Incentivized Helpful?	Netlify Platform Verified User Anonymous Chose Netlify Platform Vercel is not accessible in China, but Netlify is. That was a huge selling point for our specific product. Additionally, while Vercel can do preview deployments, the way they want you to set up aliases is a bit of a hassle compared to Netlify. Pricing is pretty good as well. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Netlify Platform Personally, I found Netlify Platform to be significantly more user friendly than Cloudflare for hosting and deployment purposes. The UX was a big improvement over Cloudflare although the performance is generally comparable, if not slightly worse. Incentivized Helpful? DP Dushyant Pathak Software Engineer Chose Netlify Platform Heroku provides backend server capabilities, meaning its configuration is slightly more complex and involved than Netlify Platform. Netlify Platform trades off ease off deployment for limited hosting capabilities Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Netlify Platform To me, Netlify is the gold standard for static web hosting, but each alternative has specific situations where it might fit better. If building a Next.js site, then Vercel is the easiest solution for hosting. For Jekyll, GitHub Pages might make more sense. Other than that, I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Netlify Platform Netlify Platform is the first choice that we are using in this organization continuously and it's been a very promising platform to use. It also maintains the things very well. it also giving a very good updates. It is very easy to use and very easy to learn. overall it is good. Incentivized Helpful? Lankit Patel AWS Developer \| Laravel Developer Chose Netlify Platform pantheon is WebOps oriented platform. it can basically be described as a super-set of Netlify Platform. it has incorporated many aspects of web development and efficiently brings them under a single umbrella. to do so also requires a similar level of effort and economic value. … Incentivized Helpful? Ankush Jain Cloud Consultant Chose Netlify Platform Netlify is best for static websites (JAM stack websites) hosting. It supports continuous integration and continuous deployment out of the box which is not there in Firebase or Heroku. It uses CDN, which optimizes images, videos, and documents on the fly. In short, Netlify is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Netlify Platform Heroku Platform and GoDaddy Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Netlify Platform Netlify really streamlines the process of getting the latest builds out to QA or automated testing, as well as allowing developers to see their code being deployed to an environment where it can be used. Free Netlify domain with deployment in the free plan Easy to setup pipeline … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Contentful

Netlify Platform

Security

Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
	Contentful 7.3 Ratings 10% below category average	Netlify Platform - Ratings
Role-based user permissions	7.30 Ratings	00 Ratings

Platform & Infrastructure

Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
	Contentful 8.0 Ratings 5% above category average	Netlify Platform - Ratings
API	8.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language	7.70 Ratings	00 Ratings

Web Content Creation

Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
	Contentful 7.7 Ratings 0% below category average	Netlify Platform - Ratings
WYSIWYG editor	7.30 Ratings	00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Admin section	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Page templates	7.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Library of website themes	7.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design	7.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Publishing workflow	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Form generator	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Web Content Management

Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
	Contentful 8.0 Ratings 8% above category average	Netlify Platform - Ratings
Content taxonomy	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
SEO support	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Bulk management	7.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Community / comment management	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Contentful	Netlify Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	8.3 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Contentful	Netlify Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	Coming from WordPress, Contentful feels like content management as it should be. There's no clutter to get rid of, you can simply start building from scratch, and the end product is perfectly tailored to your or your clients needs. Incentivized Andrew Folts Digital Strategist Read full review	Any frontend hosting solution is just great. It's also available for users in China to access. I don't know if this will be a permanent fixture as it's more dependent on China, but our project requires access from China, and Vercel is not accessible there. Netlify is hugely CI-friendly, so I would also recommend it to anyone with a solid CI/CD workflow. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Contentful provides organized, flexible data models with support for a variety of data types and content editors (e.g. WYSIWYGs, form fields, raw text areas). Contentful has great built-in versioning features with history and draft states so it's easy to make updates and revert when needed. Contentful has an intuitive user interface and good support for multiple spaces (which can be helpful for companies that need separate projects for dev/staging/production). Incentivized EM Eric Mason Lead Developer Read full review	Hosting multiple websites and having multiple projects Updating the site by directly connecting to Github repository as new code is pushed Temporary deployment to show preview on GitHub pull requests Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Preview of changes prior to publishing The ability to use a spell check plug-in when working on content (it doesn't work well with Grammarly) Incentivized Nathaly Sierra Marketing Coordinator for FirstService Realty NYC Read full review	it is not aimed at it but first party laravel support would be nice. their free tier was so handy, i wish they start some similar efforts incorporate more WebOps mindset Incentivized Lankit Patel AWS Developer \| Laravel Developer Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	Netlify is extremely user friendly while having several notable features including, but not limited to: - Managing deploys - Form integration - Domain management - Use of plugins From a user standpoint, they have made it incredibly easy to manage and review our websites deployment processes while incorporating the above optional features Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Contentful was affordable and much simpler than the Java based systems and preferred over a PHP solution Incentivized Jennifer Garcia Web Marketing Manager Read full review	To me, Netlify is the gold standard for static web hosting, but each alternative has specific situations where it might fit better. If building a Next.js site, then Vercel is the easiest solution for hosting. For Jekyll, GitHub Pages might make more sense. Other than that, I would turn to Netlify as my first choice for any static site hosting. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Netlify Platform has reduced our cost of additional server capabilities for PoC projects Netlify Platform has simplified CI CD pipelines for small standalone applications, thereby improving developer productivity Junior developers mainly working on Netlify Platform are often unable to get a low level understanding of server configuration, which is a drawback Incentivized DP Dushyant Pathak Software Engineer Read full review
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