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.
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Contentful
Strapi
Editions & Modules
Lite
$300
per month
Community
Free
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Custom
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Yes
Free/Freemium Version
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Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
8.5
10 Ratings
3% above category average
Strapi
10.0
1 Ratings
20% above category average
Role-based user permissions
8.510 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
9.5
12 Ratings
20% above category average
Strapi
10.0
1 Ratings
25% above category average
API
9.311 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language
9.79 Ratings
00 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Contentful
7.8
13 Ratings
0% above category average
Strapi
9.0
1 Ratings
14% above category average
WYSIWYG editor
7.34 Ratings
8.01 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness
9.58 Ratings
00 Ratings
Admin section
9.311 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
Page templates
7.64 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
Library of website themes
7.52 Ratings
00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design
4.57 Ratings
00 Ratings
Publishing workflow
9.312 Ratings
00 Ratings
Form generator
7.01 Ratings
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Web Content Management
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It's a great all rounder for content projects. It's easy in the basics and powerful in the complex, data heavy scenarios. Extending the platform is straightforward and the SDK gives you everything you need. If you have many many varying content types , it gets expensive and perhaps not the best choice .
1. If a headless CMS is needed. 2. Need the cms UI to be clean. 3. There is a need for customization options in the UI and API as well. 4. Expertise in javascript and need cms with node js backend. 5. Want auth APIs pre-made. 6. Easy to customize the backend as well. 7. The user interface can be fully customizable.
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.
It is a very easy to use and configure application. I find that it is on the user to manage the content after the models have been created, yet I still do not encounter issues finding or creating new components for our site. It is easy to set up and easy to navigate.
Easy to use and much more organized as a single platform versus multi. The layout is clean and easy to read and we don’t have to worry about certain users safe guarding data or content then losing it when they leave the company. It’s a one stop shop for imagery
Contentful has saved us valuable development time that was previously spent doing deploys for minor content updates.
Contentful has helped us maintain consistent documentation, reducing time needed to review for consistency.
Can't say we've really experienced any negative ROI impacts from using Contentful, but we've run into some limitations in adding too many content models and the next pricing tier is substantially more expensive.