Contentful

Founded by Sascha Konietzke in 2013

Manage and deliver content across websites, apps, and digital channels

Cost

Free Tier

Rating

★ People love it

Time to value

Moderate Setup (1-3 hours)

You can use Contentful to store, organize, and publish content that gets delivered to websites, mobile apps, and other digital products. It works as a headless CMS, meaning the content is separated from how it's displayed, so developers can pull it into any frontend. You can create structured content models, manage multiple content types, set up editorial workflows, and push content to multiple channels at once. Teams can collaborate on drafts, schedule publishing, and connect to other tools via APIs.

What Contentful does

Create and define custom content models with typed fieldsWrite and publish content entries through a browser-based editorTranslate content into multiple languages within the same entrySchedule content to publish automatically at a future date and timeSet up webhooks to notify other services when content is publishedAssign team roles to control editing and publishing permissionsQuery content via REST or GraphQL API from any applicationUpload and manage media assets linked to content entriesAPI-first architecture lets developers fetch content in any frontend frameworkVisual content modeling with custom field types and relationshipsMulti-locale support for managing content in multiple languagesRole-based permissions to control who can edit or publish contentScheduled publishing to set content to go live at a specific timeRich text editor with embedded asset and entry supportWebhook integrations to trigger external workflows on content changesContent delivery via GraphQL and REST APIs

Pricing breakdown

PlanPrice10 seats / yr

Free$0—

Basic$300.00 / mo$36,000

Premium$0—

Annual estimates assume continuous billing at the listed list price. Volume discounts typical above 50 seats.

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