Strapi alternatives
At a small site with 3 users, Strapi costs $59 a month. 1 headless CMS costs less, from $45 (Sanity). The closest match, Sanity, covers 87% of what Strapi does. Each one shows how much of it it covers, capability by capability, next to the price.
What Strapi does
Core: Structured content modeling, Content delivery API, Open source and self-hosting, App backend features.
Important: Multi-language localization (partly), Media library and image CDN (partly), Extensions and integrations, Content models as code.
Also has: Visual live-preview editing (partly), Marketer page building (partly), Editorial workflow and scheduling, Granular roles and permissions (partly), Versions and environments (partly), AI content assistance (partly), Security and compliance (partly).
Alternatives to Strapi at a small site with 3 users, best match first
- Sanity: $45/mo Free plan not counted: commercial use not stated (Growth plan at $15 per seat per month, 3 seats.). It covers 87% of Strapi; missing or partial: Open source and self-hosting (partly), App backend features (partly), Editorial workflow and scheduling (partly). Free plan: Free: $0 forever, up to 20 seats, 2 public datasets, 10k documents, 100GB assets and bandwidth; embeddings capped at 500 queries a month.. Last price hike: Jul 2026.
- Contentful: $300/mo Official page unreachable (HTTP 429); prices unverified (Lite ($300/month)). It covers 83% of Strapi; missing or partial: Open source and self-hosting (partly), App backend features (partly), Content models as code (partly), Editorial workflow and scheduling (partly). Free plan: Free: 10 users, 2 roles, 2 locales, 100K API calls and 50 GB CDN bandwidth a month (no overages), 10,000 records.
Other kinds of products that cover part of Strapi
- WordPress.com (Website builders): covers 78% of Strapi; missing or partial: Structured content modeling (partly), Content delivery API (partly), App backend features (partly), Content models as code (partly), Editorial workflow and scheduling (partly)
- Ghost(Pro) (Newsletter): covers 63% of Strapi; missing or partial: Structured content modeling (partly), Content delivery API (partly), App backend features (partly), Extensions and integrations (partly), Content models as code
- Webflow (Website builders): covers 59% of Strapi; missing or partial: Structured content modeling (partly), Content delivery API (partly), Open source and self-hosting, App backend features (partly), Extensions and integrations (partly)
Prices at every size
- Strapi: a small site with 3 users $59/mo, a 10-person team with 2 languages $150/mo (Excludes seats: seat price not published)
- Sanity: a small site with 3 users $45/mo, a 10-person team with 2 languages $198/mo (Free plan not counted: commercial use not stated)
- Contentful: a small site with 3 users $300/mo, a 10-person team with 2 languages no public price (Official page unreachable (HTTP 429); prices unverified)
Prices are USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) for one production project on the vendor's managed cloud, including seats and any overage needed for the stated usage. Products sold only as self-hosted software are priced on their license (often $0), and hosting is not included.
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