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Contentful pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Contentful (contentful.com) is a headless CMS. Tiered plans (Free, Lite at $300 per month per PricingSaaS, Enterprise by sales quote) plus six add-ons, such as AI Actions and Lite Space, that show Contact pricing.. Free plan: Free: 10 users, 2 roles, 2 locales, 100K API calls and 50 GB CDN bandwidth a month (no overages), 10,000 records.

What Contentful costs

  • 3 users: $300/mo (Free allows only 100K API calls a month with no overages, below the 500K needed, so Lite at $300/month: 20 users, 3 locales, 1M API calls and 100 GB CDN bandwidth a month, and the included Starter space holds 10,000 records.)
  • 10 users: no public price (Not priced: Lite covers 10 users, 2 locales and 10,000 records, but only 1M API calls and 100 GB bandwidth; overage rates are not published. Adding a Lite Space ($850/month, +2M calls and +750 GB) would cover it for $1,150.)

Plan compared: Lite ($300/month). 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.

What Contentful does

Core: Structured content modeling, Content delivery API.

Important: Visual live-preview editing, Multi-language localization (partly), Editorial workflow and scheduling (partly), Granular roles and permissions (partly), Versions and environments (partly), Media library and image CDN, Extensions and integrations, Security and compliance (partly).

Also has: Marketer page building (partly), Content models as code (partly), Open source and self-hosting (partly), App backend features (partly), AI content assistance (partly), On-site personalization (partly), Real-time collaboration (partly).

Contentful price hikes

No price hikes on record for Contentful.

Cheaper alternatives to Contentful

At a small site with 3 users, Contentful costs $300/mo. 2 headless CMSs cost less:

  • Sanity: $45/mo (Growth plan at $15 per seat per month, 3 seats.), covers 97% of Contentful; missing or partial: On-site personalization
  • Strapi: $59/mo (Starter plan, monthly billing, plus extra API requests to reach 500k a month), covers 86% of Contentful; missing or partial: Visual live-preview editing (partly), Media library and image CDN (partly), On-site personalization, Real-time collaboration

Contentful alternatives: 2 headless CMSs compared, at every size.

Other kinds of products that cover part of Contentful

  • WordPress.com (Website builders): covers 86% of Contentful; missing or partial: Structured content modeling (partly), Content delivery API (partly), Media library and image CDN (partly)
  • Webflow (Website builders): covers 76% of Contentful; missing or partial: Structured content modeling (partly), Content delivery API (partly), Media library and image CDN (partly), Extensions and integrations (partly), Content models as code
  • Ghost(Pro) (Newsletter): covers 62% of Contentful; missing or partial: Structured content modeling (partly), Content delivery API (partly), Visual live-preview editing (partly), Versions and environments, Media library and image CDN (partly)

Every change we logged

  • Jun 8, 2026 · Repriced: Top tier renamed from Premium to Enterprise and its tagline dropped. No price stated.

Sources

Pricing page: contentful.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Plans and limits read from Contentful's official pricing page on 2026-10-17 (Lite shown as $300 / month). Overage rates for API calls and bandwidth are not published.