Best Free Plans for Headless CMS Platforms
A Headless CMS separates presentation from content. This is great for content-heavy websites and apps. Content is pulled into the frontend via API. Authors and editors use the provider's web app to publish their content.
Free Plan Limitations: You are usually limited by the number of either users or content items (entries or views and media files). Consider what you need.
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Feature-rich service, which works as you would expect. Great visual editor.
Free plan
1 User
200 Components (content types)
25,000 Stories (content entries)
2,500 Assets (images etc.)
250 GB traffic/mo
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Extensive solution. Nice, customizable content editor with real-time editing for multiple users. Use GraphQL or their own query language GROQ to query content.
Free plan
20 Users (no roles)
2 Datasets (like projects)
10,000 Documents
2,000 Unique Attributes (types x fields)
250k API Requests / Month
100 GB Assets (e.g. images)
100 GB Traffic / Month
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Hygraph is a well established Headless CMS. Content queries are done in GraphQL. The editor is customizable (with code). Very neat: With the remote sources and integration feature you can pull content/data from 3rd party tools or your own applications and combine them with content in Hygraph.
Free plan
3 Users
2 Locales
5,000 Content Entries
20 Content Models
10 Components (like reusable partial models)
1 Million API Requests
100 GB traffic
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An open source-sources headless CMS with a twist. Instead of saving the content to its cloud, Tina saves it to your git repository as md, mdx or json file. Then it provides an GraphQL API to get the content into your frontend.
Free plan
pricing per project, not account
2 users
2 roles
no other limits, fair use
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Builder.io describes itself as Visual Headless CMS. You can design whole pages and even deliver them via a prerendered HTML API. Focus is on marketing pages and ecommerce. A build-in AI tool lets you generate code from designed pages.
Free plan
10 Users
10,000 Page Views / Month
Unlimited Content Entries, Models etc.
50 AI Code Generations / Month
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Plasmic is more of an no-code app builder with an build-in CMS. It lets you create complete websites or even interactive apps (incl. rendered HTML API) . However, you can also use as headless CMS only. Not as many CMS features as others tough.
Free plan
10,000 Page Views / Month
3 Users
Unlimited Content Entries, Models etc.