ButterCMS vs. Contentful

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ButterCMS
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
ButterCMS is a headless content management system and blog engine from the company of the same name in San Francisco. The vendor boasts users can integrate it easily into any new or existing web project in minutes.N/A
Contentful
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Contentful is a cloud based CMS solution that provides the ability to manage content across multiple platforms.The editing interface allows for managing content interactively and provides developers the ability to deliver the content with the programming language and template framework of their choice.
$489
Pricing
ButterCMSContentful
Editions & Modules
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Team
489/month
Community
Free
Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ButterCMSContentful
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
ButterCMSContentful
Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
ButterCMSContentful
Hybrid CMS
Comparison of Hybrid CMS features of Product A and Product B
ButterCMS
6.3
1 Ratings
12% below category average
Contentful
-
Ratings
Collaborative editing5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Content templates7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
WYSIWYG editor7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Content versioning6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Approval and authoring workflows5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Content personalization8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
ButterCMS
-
Ratings
Contentful
8.0
9 Ratings
0% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
ButterCMS
-
Ratings
Contentful
8.1
10 Ratings
5% above category average
API00 Ratings8.79 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings7.57 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
ButterCMS
-
Ratings
Contentful
8.0
11 Ratings
5% above category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings8.79 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings7.64 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings8.26 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
ButterCMS
-
Ratings
Contentful
8.3
10 Ratings
12% above category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings8.59 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings7.78 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings7.76 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings8.77 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
ButterCMSContentful
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.5
(11 ratings)
User Testimonials
ButterCMSContentful
Likelihood to Recommend
ButterCMS
ButterCMS is suited if you are looking to have total headless cms and not cms that are like AEM or WordPress. Marketing multi engines and blogs are a few features to discover here. Do not enter this CMS in case you have no idea of headless cms. Having a little understanding would help.
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Contentful
Well suited for our needs of multiple images for auto auctions from a variety of sellers. Pointing them to one platform is easier than attempting to use a variety of platforms as we were doing before (email, slack, Dropbox and Google Drive would randomly be used by a variety of employees )
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Pros
ButterCMS
  • Ease of marketing
  • Engineering excellence
  • Much more access and development can be done
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Contentful
  • Flexible. This CMS can be easily extended and provide access to dynamic content
  • Simple. The WYSWG is very easy to work with and identifying pages and content in the system is fairly easy
  • Clean Interface. The interface is clean and uncluttered keeping focus on the content and not other factors.
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Cons
ButterCMS
  • Pricing could be checked
  • Maybe add an option to create sites using builders
  • Easily migrate existing sites
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Contentful
  • Contentful uses "references" to allow you to build very modular content. If I have a "slider" content type, I can create a "slide" content type which references a "button" content type, and so forth. This works well, but I occasionally wish there was a better solution for one-off content, like a settings page. Currently, this is done for creating an entire content type called "settings" with a single entry. Not a big deal, but not ideal, either.
  • There are a few quirks with GatsbyJS integration, etc, but these issues are being fixed and improved upon very quickly.
  • A minor gripe, but Contentful does not have a way to organize fields within an entry. Entries with many fields are somewhat tiresome to scroll through.
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Alternatives Considered
ButterCMS
ButterCMS has been here for a while and we at our company know and understand how important brand value can be hence our decision to go ahead with this product. Has been brilliant so far. Save time and handle maintenance measures also help hence this product. Others in this category were not much that we were aware of.
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Contentful
In the past we've used WordPress to manage documentation content. WordPress was more flexible than Contentful but also prone to inconsistencies and we ended having a lot of hacks to accomplish various WordPress tricks. With Contentful there's less ambiguity so content producers are less likely to go astray. We also have our own in-house programmatic template solution for managing content, but this was a previous pain point when we needed to get the dev team to do a deploy for every content change.
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Return on Investment
ButterCMS
  • ROI has improved
  • Website load time is better
  • Seo scores have improved
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Contentful
  • Positive - new hires are able to get onboarded quicker with us using Contentful
  • Positive - we can customize the journey of what modules/material the user sees after a course/video/article
  • Positive - it's been an overall game changer when hiring external candidates who need extensive training
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