Best Free Headless CMS Tools

Free OSS (MIT). TypeScript-first headless CMS with code-based config. REST and GraphQL APIs, access control, hooks, live preview. Self-hosted or Payload Cloud. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

• −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-10, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)

Headless CMS — 10K records, 100K API calls/month, 10 users, 25 content types, 2 environments. Personal/non-commercial use. We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-11-08, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

• −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 13 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-11-08 — HTTP 429), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)

Offers free tier for small projects. API / GraphQL first. Open source and based on event sourcing (versing every change automatically).

• −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 2 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-11-06 — The pricing page text does not mention any free tier, plan limits, or pricing details for Squidex, so the stored free-tier information cannot be verified against it.), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)

Offers free tier for small projects. DatoCMS is a GraphQL-based CMS. On the lower tier, you have 100k/month calls.

• −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-25, found the page different from the terms we hold. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)

Free OSS (MIT). Self-hosted headless CMS with REST and GraphQL APIs. Content types builder, RBAC, webhooks, i18n, media library. 200K+ active projects. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

• −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-10, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)

Headless CMS — 1 project, 2 users, 1,000 objects, 10K API requests/month (100K cached), 1 GB storage, 1 GB API bandwidth, 3 AI agents, 300K AI tokens/month. When we read the page we cite for this offer on 2026-10-08, we found the same terms as an earlier read we had declined to record, and we have read it again since, on 2026-11-03, without confirming the terms above, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

• −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-11-03 — The pricing page text is truncated and does not include the actual plan tiers, limits, or pricing details needed to verify the stored free tier info (1 project, 2 users, 1,000 objects, 10K API requests/month, etc.).), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)

Headless PIM with ecommerce support. Built-in GraphQL API. Particle plan (free): unlimited users, 100 catalog items, 25 orders/month, 5 GB bandwidth/month, 25K API calls/month.

• −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-24, found the page different from the terms we hold. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)