Comparison: Cloud CMS vs Contentful
Sep 23
Looking for the best CMS online? Review these points to help guide your headless CMS selection.
Criteria |
Cloud CMS |
Contentful |
Ease of Use |
Implements a role-based UI to accommodate various functions. |
Simple user interface for defining content types and instances. |
Flexibility |
JSON schema with types and associations that you can continually evolve in-place. |
Basic content model only, difficult to change once configured |
Update Strategy |
Documents are published individually, or as part of larger change sets. |
Documents can only be published one-by-one. |
Workflow Process |
Flexible workflow capability. Allows teams and roles to be created along with a workflow designer for defining content production process and constraints. |
No online workflow capability. |
API Access |
Fully bidirectional, “API first” design |
Fully bidirectional, “API first” design |
Deployment Options |
SaaS and / or On-Premise (Docker images) |
SaaS only |
Security for Assets |
Allows assets to be delivered via either CDN or Web API – with full security and auditing available. |
Uses CDN for all static assets, requiring them to be publicly available. No auditing. |
Pricing Factors |
Based solely on your desired SLA |
Pre-defined tiers with a fixed number of
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