ButterCMS
Hosted headless CMS with a built-in blog engine, aimed at marketing teams and SaaS sites.
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About ButterCMS
ButterCMS is a hosted headless CMS that bolts a blog, landing pages and structured content onto an existing website or app through an API. It is best known for its ready-made blog engine: posts, authors, categories, tags and SEO fields come set up, so a developer can add a company blog to a React, Next.js, Rails, Django or Laravel site quickly and hand it to marketers. Page types and components cover landing pages, and collections handle structured data like FAQs or testimonials. It also offers localisation, workflows on higher plans, image editing and a CDN. A free plan supports small projects and MVPs, and paid plans step up by API calls, bandwidth, pages and posts. The trade-offs are that it is less flexible than developer-centric platforms for complex content models, the paid tiers are expensive for what small teams use, and it is hosted only. It is a web app.
Best for: SaaS and marketing teams adding a blog and landing pages to an existing site.
Pros and cons
What works
- Ready-made blog engine with SEO fields
- Quick to integrate with SDKs for many frameworks
- Free plan for small projects
Why people leave
- Less flexible for complex content models
- Paid tiers are pricey for small teams
- Hosted only, no self-hosting
Top ButterCMS alternatives
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Prismic66.5Cheaper hosted CMS with flexible page sections.
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Storyblok62.6Visual editor for landing pages with a free Starter plan.
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DatoCMS57.2Hosted headless CMS with modular content and strong image handling.
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WordPress55.3Free self-hosted blogging if you don't need a headless setup.
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Contentful49.1More scalable platform for complex, multi-channel content.
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ButterCMS: common questions
Is ButterCMS free?
ButterCMS has a free plan and paid plans. Free plan: $0/month (checked on ButterCMS's own site).
Is ButterCMS open source?
No, ButterCMS is not open source. Open-source alternatives include WordPress.
What platforms does ButterCMS run on?
ButterCMS is available for Web.
What are the best alternatives to ButterCMS?
The highest-ranked ButterCMS alternatives right now are Prismic, Storyblok and DatoCMS. See the full ranked list for pricing, platforms and verified facts.