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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Contentful

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AContentful 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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    Vercel

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/A​Vercel (made by the creators of Next.js) is a cloud platform for static sites and Serverless Functions for a workflow. It enables developers to host websites and web services that deploy instantly, scale automatically, and requires no supervision, all with no configuration. The platform aims to enable frontend teams to work while combining the best developer experience with a focus on end-user performance.N/A
    Pricing
    ContentfulVercel
    Editions & Modules
    Lite
    $300
    per month
    Community
    Free
    Enterprise
    Custom
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    Pricing Offerings
    ContentfulVercel
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    ContentfulVercel
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    Better, easier, mostly cheaper.
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    ContentfulVercel
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Contentful and Vercel
    Feature
    Contentful
    8.5
    10 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Vercel
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    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Contentful and Vercel
    Feature
    Contentful
    9.5
    12 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Vercel
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    API9.311 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language9.79 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Contentful and Vercel
    Feature
    Contentful
    7.8
    13 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Vercel
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor7.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness9.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section9.311 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates7.64 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design4.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow9.312 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Contentful and Vercel
    Feature
    Contentful
    9.4
    12 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Vercel
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    Ratings
    Content taxonomy10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support10.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management9.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions9.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Contentful and Vercel
    Feature
    Contentful
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    Vercel
    7.9
    3 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings7.33 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings8.53 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.83 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
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    ContentfulVercel
    Small Businesses
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ContentfulVercel
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (13 ratings)
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ContentfulVercel
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Contentful
    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 .
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    VERCEL
    I've had nothing but positive experiences with Vercel, and while their business offering is great, it's also worth touching on their free plan. Their free plan allows me to tinker with web development in my free time without having to worry about paying for a costly linux box. I just link a GitHub repository and it's done!
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    Pros
    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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    VERCEL
    • Deploy Site
    • Integrate Giithub
    • Functions to use at scale and free
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    Cons
    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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    VERCEL
    • Interface Revamp
    • Cost reduction
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Contentful
    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.
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    VERCEL
    Vercel's good usability and developer experience make me happy to visit their website when I need to configure my deployments. It's very easy to navigate, configure, and manage my projects, and the developer experience is so seamless that I don't have to think much when I push changes to git.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Contentful
    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
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    VERCEL
    Vercel beats Heroku and DigitalOcean by a mile with pricing. Since Vercel uses serverless infrastructure, we don't pay for servers that don't get used, which is great for smaller platforms. Vercel Support is also very quick to respond, unlike DigitalOcean who took a while to get back to me after they didn't honor platform credits they sent me.
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    Return on Investment
    Contentful
    • 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.
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    VERCEL
    • Reduced amount of staff time required to deploy applications and websites
    • Improved staging environments by automatically deploying changes on pull requests
    • Allowed for collaboration from members of the open source community with strong git integrations
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