What is Contentful?
Headless CMS with structured content, APIs and AI actions.
Who is Contentful best for?
Contentful is best for developer and marketing teams that publish one set of content to many sites, apps and markets.
Developer teams building on APIs
Content lives as structured entries that any front end, from a website to a mobile app, pulls through Contentful's APIs.
Brands with many sites and markets
One content component can be reused across channels, brands and regions, and an update to it shows everywhere it is used.
Trying a headless CMS
The free plan gives 10 users and 100,000 API calls a month with hard caps, so a test project never runs up overage charges.
Large marketing operations
Enterprise plans add Personalization, Studio and AI Actions for testing, page building and AI translation on top of the content platform.
How much does Contentful cost?
Contentful has a free plan for 10 users with 100,000 API calls a month, its Lite plan costs $300 a month, and Enterprise is priced by sales.
- 10 users, 2 roles and 2 locales
- 100K API calls and 50 GB of CDN bandwidth a month, hard capped
- 1 Starter Space with 25 content types and 10,000 records
- 20 users, 3 roles and 3 locales
- 1M API calls and 100 GB of CDN bandwidth a month, with paid overages
- Comments, tasks, scheduled publishing and live collaboration
Enterprise is priced by sales and adds unlimited API calls, custom users and Spaces, 24/7 support and an uptime SLA of up to 99.99%. On Lite, extra usage costs $5 per million API calls and $0.15 per GB of bandwidth, and one larger Lite Space (50 content types, 4 environments, 50,000 records) can be added for $850 a month. Personalization, Studio and AI Actions are sold separately for Enterprise plans. Full pricing on contentful.com. We checked these prices on .
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What are the best Contentful alternatives?
Two tools on Recaply do Contentful's job. Both are open source, so you can run them on your own server.
Questions about Contentful
What is Contentful?
Headless CMS with structured content, APIs and AI actions.
Who is Contentful for?
Contentful is best for developer and marketing teams that publish one set of content to many sites, apps and markets.
Is Contentful free?
Yes. Contentful has a free plan: 10 users, 2 roles and 2 locales.
How much does Contentful cost?
Contentful's paid plans are Lite at $300 per month.
Is there an open source alternative to Contentful?
Yes. Payload and Strapi are open source tools that do the same job, so you can run your own.
What are the best Contentful alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Payload and Strapi.
Where can I try Contentful?
On its official website, contentful.com.
What happens when I go over Contentful's usage limits?
On the Free plan nothing extra is charged, because usage stops at hard caps of 100,000 API calls and 50 GB of bandwidth a month. On Lite you can go over and pay $5 for each extra million API calls and $0.15 for each extra GB of bandwidth.
Are AI Actions and Personalization included in Contentful plans?
Only with Enterprise. Contentful sells AI Actions, Personalization and Studio separately from its core plans, for Enterprise customers. AI Actions comes with AI credits on Enterprise, with pay-as-you-go or prepaid options for heavier use.
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