Contentful vs. Strapi

Contentful

Strapi

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Contentful	Score 6.2 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
Strapi	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	Strapi is an open-source software platform that helps developers to easily build, deploy, and manage APIs.	N/A

Pricing

Contentful

Strapi

Editions & Modules

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

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Contentful	Strapi
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
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	Strapi
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?	Strapi No answer on this topic

Features

Contentful

Strapi

Security

Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
	Contentful 7.3 Ratings 10% below category average	Strapi 10.0 Ratings 21% above category average
Role-based user permissions	7.30 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Platform & Infrastructure

Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
	Contentful 8.0 Ratings 5% above category average	Strapi 10.0 Ratings 27% above category average
API	8.30 Ratings	10.00 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	Strapi 9.0 Ratings 15% above category average
WYSIWYG editor	7.30 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Admin section	8.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Page templates	7.60 Ratings	9.00 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	Strapi 8.7 Ratings 17% above category average
Content taxonomy	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
SEO support	7.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Bulk management	7.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions	8.50 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Community / comment management	9.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

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	Contentful	Strapi
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User Ratings
	Contentful	Strapi
Likelihood to Recommend	8.3 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Contentful	Strapi
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	1. If a headless CMS is needed. 2. Need the cms UI to be clean. 3. There is a need for customization options in the UI and API as well. 4. Expertise in javascript and need cms with node js backend. 5. Want auth APIs pre-made. 6. Easy to customize the backend as well. 7. The user interface can be fully customizable. 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	Free and open source. CMS UI is nice and clean. Customization options. Regular updates and bug fixes. Easy to find and understand docs. Blogs available to learn more. Plugin eco system. 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	Tutorial videos. Use typescript for it's backend. Detailed explanation of commands available. More clear docs for releasing. 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	No answers on this topic
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	Easy to setup. Customize the ui. Increased productivity. Get prebuilt auth apis. Customize the backend and add new apis. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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