Contentful
Deliver intelligent experiences from one source
- Also known as
- contentful
What is Contentful?
Contentful is a headless CMS and digital experience platform enabling teams to create and deliver personalized content at scale, with AI-powered automation, visual content assembly, and comprehensive workflow capabilities.
Contentful pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier available. Lite plan free base with $850/month per additional space. Enterprise with custom pricing.
Free
Free- roles
- 2
- locales
- 2
- api_calls
- 100K/month
- asset_bandwidth
- 50 GB/month
- asset_upload_size
- 50 MB
- 2 Roles (Admin, Editor)
- 2 Custom Locales
- 100K/month API calls (no overages)
- 50 GB/month asset bandwidth CDN (no overages)
- 50 MB max asset upload size
- Structured content
- Content tags
- Links/reference fields
- Visual modeler
- Taxonomy
- Localization
- Reference view
- Rich text editor
- Markdown editor
- Image editor
- Scheduled publishing
- Validation
- Content versioning
- Community support
Lite
- roles
- 3
- locales
- 3
- api_calls
- 1M/month
- asset_bandwidth
- 100 GB/month
- asset_upload_size
- 1000 MB
- 3 Roles (Admin, Editor, Author)
- 3 Custom Locales
- 1M/month API calls with paid overages allowed
- 100 GB/month asset bandwidth CDN with paid overages allowed
- 1000 MB max asset upload size
- All Free features
- Multi-space orchestration
- Custom external references
- Roles and permissions
- ISO 27001 certified
- API token management
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Teams
- Custom roles and permissions
- Tag-based permissions
- User Management API
- Environment governance
- SCIM provisioning via IdP
- Custom domain
- Embargoed assets
- Static webhook IPs
- Security reporting
- PCI DSS compliance
- Encryption in transit and at rest
- 24/7 infrastructure monitoring
- Medium-density infrastructure
- Advanced caching
- Standard technical support
- Professional Services offerings
- Infosec and legal review
Enterprise
Contact sales- roles
- Custom
- locales
- Custom
- api_calls
- Custom with paid overages
- asset_bandwidth
- Custom with paid overages
- asset_upload_size
- 1000 MB
- All Lite features
- Custom roles and locales
- Custom API calls with paid overages
- Custom asset bandwidth with paid overages
- AI Actions with included quotas
- Contentful Personalization compatible
- Contentful Studio compatible
- Dedicated infrastructure
- Multi-region delivery infrastructure
- EU data residency
- Prioritized support with guaranteed response time SLAs
- Dedicated Customer Success Manager
- Professional Services offerings
- Infosec and legal review
Add-ons
- Additional Lite Space$850/mo
What Contentful does
The capabilities that matter for cms software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- CMS type
- Headless / API-first
- Open-source
- ✗
- Self-hostable
- ✗
- Managed / cloud hosting offered
- ✓
- Headless API (REST/GraphQL)
- ✓
- Structured content modelling
- ✓
- Localisation / i18n
- ✓
- Content workflow / approvals
- ✓
- Visual / no-code page builder
- ✓
- Plugin / app ecosystem size
- Marketplace with apps and integrations to extend platform
- Multi-site / multi-tenant
- ✓
- Git-based / code-first workflow
- -
- Free / open tier
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Contentful alternatives
Other cms software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- GhostThe best open source blog & newsletter platformmedium · 52%
- DrupalThe open source framework behind millions of websiteslow · 13%
- WixGo from words to a business-ready site that's entirely yours to shape, on the first hybrid website builder.low · 48%
- StoryblokYour Content Confidence Management Systemmedium · 60%
- UmbracoThe Most Agent-Ready CMS. AI On Your Terms.low · 19%
- SanityThe Content Operations Platform for the AI eralow · 45%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Contentful, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 92 | 32.00 | 2932.2 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 16.00 | 1600.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 85 | 12.00 | 1020.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 100 | 10.00 | 1000.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 12.00 | 600.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 18.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"cms_type":"headless","free_tier":true,"multisite":true,"open_source":false,"headless_api":true,"localization":true,"self_hostable":false,"visual_builder":true,"managed_hosting":true,"content_workflow":true,"plugin_ecosystem":"Marketplace with apps and integrations to extend platform","structured_content":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |