What is Strapi?
Headless CMS in Node.js with REST and GraphQL APIs, roles and an admin panel for editors.
Who is Strapi best for?
Strapi is best for web agencies and dev teams that need a self-hosted headless CMS behind their sites and apps.
Sites with a separate frontend
Strapi serves content over REST and GraphQL, so any web framework or mobile app can read it.
Editors working beside developers
Developers define content types, and editors get draft and publish, a media library and role-based access.
Multilingual content
Internationalisation with unlimited locales is part of the free Community Edition.
Teams avoiding usage caps
Self-hosted Strapi has no limits on entries or API calls; you pay only for your own hosting.
How much does Strapi cost?
Strapi's Community Edition is free to self-host under MIT, the self-hosted Growth plan is $45 a month for 3 users, and Strapi Cloud starts at $35 per project a month.
- MIT licence, unlimited entries and API calls
- REST and GraphQL APIs, roles and permissions
- Community support
- Strapi Cloud, 100,000 API requests a month
- 50 GB asset storage and 50 GB bandwidth
- Sleeps when idle
- 1M API requests a month
- 250 GB storage and 500 GB bandwidth
- Always on, with weekly backups
- 10M API requests a month
- Daily backups and 2 environments
- 99.9% uptime SLA
Self-hosted Growth costs $45 a month with 3 users (plus $15 per extra user) and adds live preview, releases, content history and 1,000 Strapi AI credits a month. Enterprise is priced by sales. Cloud plans cost up to 17% less billed yearly, and non-profits and open source projects can apply for Cloud discounts. Full pricing on strapi.io. We checked these prices on .
How do readers rate Strapi?
No one has rated Strapi yet. Be the first.
Sign in to rate. One rating per account.
Is Strapi open source?
Yes. Strapi's code is public under the MIT licence, so you can run it on your own server.
On GitHub
73,469stars
+169 (+0.2%) in the last 30 days
- Last commit
- 12 Nov
- Repository age
- 11 years
- Latest release
- 12 Nov
- Licence
- MIT
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Repository
- strapi/strapi
What are the best Strapi alternatives?
Strapi is an open source alternative to Contentful and Wisp CMS. Ghost and Payload do the same job and are open source too.
ContentfulFreeHeadless CMS with structured content, APIs and AI actions.
Wisp CMSFreeA blog CMS for Next.js apps.
GhostOpen SourceBlogs and newsletters with paid subscriptions and email delivery, for independent writers.
PayloadOpen SourceHeadless CMS and app framework that runs inside your Next.js app, with an admin panel and APIs.
Questions about Strapi
What is Strapi?
Headless CMS in Node.js with REST and GraphQL APIs, roles and an admin panel for editors.
Who is Strapi for?
Strapi is best for web agencies and dev teams that need a self-hosted headless CMS behind their sites and apps.
Is Strapi free?
Yes. Strapi's Community Edition is free under the MIT licence, with unlimited entries, API calls and locales when you host it yourself. Paid plans add features such as live preview and SSO, or hosting on Strapi Cloud from $35 per project a month.
How much does Strapi cost?
Strapi's paid plans are Starter at $35 per project per month, Pro at $90 per project per month and Business at $450 per project per month.
Is Strapi open source?
Yes. Strapi's code is public under the MIT licence, so you can run it on your own server.
What are the best Strapi alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Contentful, Wisp CMS, Ghost and Payload.
Where can I try Strapi?
On its official website, strapi.io.
Marble CMS
Refine
Appsmith
Hyperbrowser
Yaak
Chapar