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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Ghost

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AGhost 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.

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    Hygraph

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AHygraph (previously GraphCMS) is a native GraphQL Headless Content Management System (CMS) and now evolved as a Federated Content Platform, enabling teams across the world to unify, structure, enrich and distribute content from anywhere to anywhere.

    $299

    per month

    Pricing
    GhostHygraph
    Editions & Modules
    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
    Professional
    $299
    per month per project
    Scale
    $899
    per month per project
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GhostHygraph
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—35% discount for annual pricing.
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    Features
    GhostHygraph
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Ghost and Hygraph
    Feature
    Ghost
    8.7
    1 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Hygraph
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Ghost and Hygraph
    Feature
    Ghost
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Hygraph
    -
    Ratings
    Content taxonomy9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Hybrid CMS
    Comparison of Hybrid CMS features of Ghost and Hygraph
    Feature
    Ghost
    -
    Ratings
    Hygraph
    8.7
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Collaborative editing00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Content templates00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Approval and authoring workflows00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    GhostHygraph
    Small Businesses
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
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    Square Online
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GhostHygraph
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GhostHygraph
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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
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    Hygraph
    I would recommend GraphCMS to anyone who is also using Gatsby to build their website. If not, I would recommend them to consider GraphCMS but also consider other options. GraphCMS is a tool in which you are responsible to make the most out of it, but sometimes this requires more time and knowledge than a normal engineer may be able to handle. But with more time and attention, the reward of off-lifting content creation from the developers is a huge time saver in the long run.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    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
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    Hygraph
    • GraphCMS is easy to work with from the "non-engineer" side of things.
    • GraphCMS is very flexible on what data models we can create and how those models are formed.
    • GraphCMS uses Graph API, which is easy to write (compared to older API patterns).
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    Cons
    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
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    Hygraph
    • GraphCMS is very expensive at the enterprise level.
    • GraphCMS requires deep knowledge of the system and requires lots of time to be efficient with it (especially around creating specific data patterns/relationships).
    • Multiple times a day, the system will give us errors when attempting to save something but the errors are unclear as to what went wrong (can be irritating).
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    Usability
    Ghost Foundation
    Flexible, competent and easy to use
    Incentivized
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    Hygraph
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    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
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    Hygraph
    We picked GraphCMS since it used Graph API and easily integrated it into our Gatsby website. It was also cheap (free) and easy to test out the product, making it easier to prove to our company we should pay for the product in the long run. Lastly, it seems to have a bunch of support from other developers which makes us confident will be around for a while (and we won't need to replace it anytime soon). Note: I also looked at Directus and DatoCMS but these were not options within TrustRadius
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    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
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    Hygraph
    • Better use of time for our engineers in the long run.
    • More control of content for people outside of the engineer team.
    • Allows people to edit the content on their own, so they don't need to wait until a developer is available to add something to the website.
    Incentivized
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