Compare 15 free headless cms tools, free tiers, and developer deals. We could not confirm today's terms for 10 of them: on 6 the page we cite did not answer, and on 4 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why. Nothing on record contradicts our terms for Sanity, Hygraph, Prismic, WPJack.
What this name holds: Editorial stores with an authoring UI in front of them, read over an API.
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We track 15 headless cms services with a free tier we hold as current. This category has been relatively stable — only 3 pricing changes recorded across all vendors.
| Vendor | Tier | Description | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contentful | Free | Headless CMS — 10K records, 100K API calls/month, 10 users, 25 content types, 2 environments. Personal/non-commercial useWe could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-09-26, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-07-25 · tried 2026-09-26, no read |
| Sanity | Free | Structured content platform — Free: $0 forever. Includes: Up to 20 user seats, 2 permission roles, 2 datasets (public only), Unlimited content types and locales, Content Agent, Agent Context, Compute and Agent Actions, Hosted, real-time content database, Live previews and visual editing tools. | 2026-09-24 |
| Hygraph | Hobby | GraphQL headless CMS — 1K content entries, 500K API calls/month, 3 seats, 20 models, unlimited asset storage | 2026-09-24 |
| Directus | Self-Hosted | Superseded: As of 2026-08-28, directus.io/pricing reads: Organizations under $5M in annual revenue and fewer than 50 employees qualify for fully permissive access to Directus at no software cost. Self-hosted is completely free. Cloud hosting is $99/mo. We are not publishing our stored Directus terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-08-28, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓ | 2026-09-24 / 2026-07-28 |
| Strapi | Free OSS | Free OSS (MIT). Self-hosted headless CMS with REST and GraphQL APIs. Content types builder, RBAC, webhooks, i18n, media library. 200K+ active projectsThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-02 / 2026-07-30 |
| Payload CMS | Free OSS | Free OSS (MIT). TypeScript-first headless CMS with code-based config. REST and GraphQL APIs, access control, hooks, live preview. Self-hosted or Payload CloudThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-02 / 2026-08-25 |
| Cosmic | Free | 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/monthWhen we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-20, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-20 / 2026-08-14 |
| Crystallize | Free | 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.Our read on 2026-09-18 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. | 2026-09-18 / 2026-08-12 |
| DatoCMS | Free | Offers free tier for small projects. DatoCMS is a GraphQL-based CMS. On the lower tier, you have 100k/month calls.When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-15, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-15 / 2026-08-01 |
| Prismic | Free | Headless CMS. Content management interface with fully hosted and scalable API. The Community Plan provides unlimited API calls, documents, custom types, assets, and locales to one user. Everything that you need for your next project. Bigger free plans are available for Open Content/Open Source projects. | 2026-08-02 · tried 2026-09-19, no read |
| Solo | Free | Free AI website creator from Mozilla, create a beautiful website for your business from a few simple inputs. Free custom domain, no credit card needed.The page we cite for Solo names a plan but states no amount, so these limits come from our own record rather than from that page. | 2026-09-17 |
| Squidex | Free | Offers free tier for small projects. API / GraphQL first. Open source and based on event sourcing (versing every change automatically).The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-02 / 2026-08-02 |
| Storyblok | Free | Headless CMS with visual editor for developers and marketers — Starter plan is free and includes 1 space, 1 user seat (with an additional seat available for $15/month), 100GB traffic/month, 100k API requests/month, 2 locales, 200 components, 20,000 stories, 2,000 assets, 1 day content versioning retention, 500MB max asset size, and 3 webhooks.Our read on 2026-09-22 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. | 2026-09-22 / 2026-08-24 |
| TinaCMS | Free | Replacing Forestry.io. Open source Git-backed headless CMS that supports Markdown, MDX, and JSON. The basic offer is free with two users available.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-09-02 / 2026-08-06 |
| WPJack | Free | Set up WordPress on any cloud in less than 5 minutes! The free tier includes 1 server, 2 sites, free SSL certificates, and unlimited cron jobs. No time limits or expirations—your website, your way. | 2026-09-10 / 2026-09-09 |
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