ButterCMS vs. Ghost

ButterCMS

ButterCMS

2 Reviews and Ratings

Ghost

Ghost

11 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
ButterCMS	Score 7.5 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
Ghost	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	Ghost is a CMS for new-media creators to publish, share, and grow a business around their content. Available open source and free (e.g. for blogging), it can also come with tools for business' content marketing.	$0

Pricing

ButterCMS

Ghost

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Ghost (community): $0
Starter: $11
per month 1 staff user, 500 members
Creator: $31
per month 2 staff users, 1000 members
Team: $63
per month 5 staff users, 1000 members
Business: $249
per month unlimited staff users, 10,000 members

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
ButterCMS	Ghost
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	ButterCMS	Ghost

Features

ButterCMS

Ghost

Web Content Creation

Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
	ButterCMS - Ratings	Ghost 8.7 1 Ratings 11% above category average
WYSIWYG editor	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Admin section	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Publishing workflow	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings

Web Content Management

Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
	ButterCMS - Ratings	Ghost 8.5 1 Ratings 13% above category average
Content taxonomy	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
SEO support	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	ButterCMS	Ghost
Small Businesses	Contentful Score 7.6 out of 10	ManageWP Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	ButterCMS	Ghost
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	ButterCMS	Ghost
Likelihood to Recommend	ButterCMS No answers on this topic	Ghost Foundation It is well suited for distributed writing and publishing with a subscription component.and well suited for simultaneous deployment to email and the web. Its pricing for a very small group (3 or more) tends to the expensive and login across multiple different devices can be aggravating. Incentivized MB Mike Blumenthal Co-founder Read full review
Pros	ButterCMS No answers on this topic	Ghost Foundation Creating a newsletter for web and email simultaneously Allowing for paid subscriptions Allowing content to be segmented by subscription type Allows content to be segmented by medium Good analytics across various output medium Incentivized MB Mike Blumenthal Co-founder Read full review
Cons	ButterCMS No answers on this topic	Ghost Foundation They wysiwig editor is missing critical functions like superscript and subscript The markdown complement has those features but it doesn’t integrate well with the wysiwig editor Footnoting is hard to do Incentivized MB Mike Blumenthal Co-founder Read full review
Usability	ButterCMS No answers on this topic	Ghost Foundation Flexible, competent and easy to use Incentivized MB Mike Blumenthal Co-founder Read full review
Alternatives Considered	ButterCMS No answers on this topic	Ghost Foundation It is simpler, headless, faster than WordPress. The core functionality is focused on subscription membership which is a bloated add on for WordPress. The simplicity has a cost as WordPress, while complicated, offers more expansion opportunities. Incentivized MB Mike Blumenthal Co-founder Read full review
Return on Investment	ButterCMS No answers on this topic	Ghost Foundation Our business is totally built around this product It has allowed us to easily and quickly scale our free and our paywalled content experiments Incentivized MB Mike Blumenthal Co-founder Read full review
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