Cosmic vs Squidex
No clear leader: Cosmic (60.4) and Squidex (55.8) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for headless cms. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Cosmic
A headless CMS platform enabling content teams to publish independently, with support for multiple sites and languages plus built-in AI agents to automate content workflows.
Squidex
A headless CMS that provides content management through modern APIs rather than a traditional UI, supporting REST and GraphQL endpoints. It can be deployed on-premises, in the cloud, or via Docker with customizable workflows and multi-language support.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Cosmic
Free tier. Plans $99–$499/mo, annual billing saves 10%. Metered overages for usage beyond limits.
- FreeFree
- 2 team members
- 1,000 Objects
- 300k in/out AI tokens
- 1 agent, 1 workflow
- Builder$99/mo or $1,069/year (10% savings)
- 3 team members
- 2 Buckets
- 5,000 Objects
- 500k in/out AI tokens
- 3 agents, 3 workflows
- Team$299/mo or $3,229/year (10% savings)
- 5 team members
- 3 Buckets
- 20,000 Objects
- 1M in/out AI tokens
- 10 agents, 10 workflows
- Business$499/mo or $5,389/year (10% savings)
- 25 agents, 25 workflows
- EnterpriseContact sales
- SAML single sign-on
- 99.95% uptime SLA
- Automatic Backups included
- 50 workflows
Squidex
Free plan with 20,000 API calls/month; additional calls at €0.20 per 1,000 calls
- FreeFree
- Basic€0.20 per 1000 API calls
- Professional€0.20 per 1000 API calls
- Business€0.20 per 1000 API calls
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
Cosmic
- Slack
- GitHub
- Telegram
- Vercel
- Netlify
- Cloudflare
- Render
- Kinsta
- Algolia
- Stripe
- Claude
- Cursor
- Google Sheets
Squidex
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- Azure Queue
- Medium
- Google Maps
- FTP
- Azure Storage
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- SQL Server
- FerretDB
- CosmosDB
- DocumentDB
Cosmic or Squidex: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.