Strapi pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Strapi (strapi.io) is a headless CMS. Strapi Cloud is priced per project per month on three tiers, with add-ons for extra API requests, bandwidth, storage and environments; seats are chosen at checkout.. Free plan: Open-source Community edition is free to self-host; no free Strapi Cloud plan is listed on the pricing page..
What Strapi costs
- 3 users: $59/mo (Starter $35/mo + 400,000 extra API requests at $1.50 per 25k = 16 x $1.50 = $24, total $59. The page prints '+$1,50' and '+$0,60', read as $1.50 and $0.60. Bandwidth (50 GB) and assets (10 GB) fit Starter's included limits. Pro at $90 is more expensive. Excludes seats for 3 users, which the page does not price. Starter sleeps when idle; the yardstick's sleep exclusion only covers free plans.)
- 10 users: $150/mo (Pro $90/mo + 1,000,000 extra API requests at $1.50 per 25k = 40 x $1.50 = $60, total $150. Pro includes 500 GB bandwidth and 250 GB assets. Starter would cost $35 + $114 (76 x $1.50) + $60 (200 extra GB at $30 per 100 GB) = $209, and Business is $450. Excludes seats for 10 users, which the page does not price.)
Plan compared: Starter plan, monthly billing, plus extra API requests to reach 500k a 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 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).
Strapi price hikes
No price hikes on record for Strapi.
Cheaper alternatives to Strapi
At a small site with 3 users, Strapi costs $59/mo. 1 headless CMS costs less:
- Sanity: $45/mo (Growth plan at $15 per seat per month, 3 seats.), covers 87% of Strapi; missing or partial: Open source and self-hosting (partly), App backend features (partly), Editorial workflow and scheduling (partly)
Strapi alternatives: 2 headless CMSs compared, at every size.
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)
Sources
Pricing page: strapi.io/pricing-cloud. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Monthly prices (the Monthly toggle is the active default) and add-on rates come from the official strapi.io/pricing-cloud page captured 2026-10-17; annual plan prices, seat counts and seat prices are not on the page, so both points are floors that exclude seats. PricingSaaS has no Strapi page (404 at /companies/strapi) and the web search budget ran out, so no price changes were found or verified.