Learn why you should choose a headless CMS like Cosmic over any other
Cosmic vs. Contentful
The purpose of this Headless CMS comparison page is to outline the differences between the Cosmic headless CMS and other available content management solutions. By comparing technology, maintenance, security, features, and cost analysis, it is our goal to show you the benefits and tradeoffs to help you decide if the Cosmic Headless CMS is the right solution for your team.
About Contentful
Contentful is a Headless CMS that positions itself as a content management platform to create, manage and publish content on any digital channel. Cosmic is an alternative to Contentful that your developers and content creators will love.
Developers and Creators
Contentful, is probably best suited to compare to Cosmic as it also offers a dashboard to create content and an API to deliver content.
When comparing the two solutions, ask which service best serves the developer and content creator experience.
Limitations
With Contentful, you will see that they put some pretty hard limits on content item count, localization, user roles, and more.
Cosmic | Contentful | |
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Technology | A global edge compute network and high performance CDN. | Technology not indicated. |
Scalability | All components are infinitely scalable. Built on global edge cloud technology. | Managed scalability. |
Security | We manage the security for you. Data encryption at rest with 256-bit SSL encryption in transit. Two-factor authentication included free. | They manage your dashboard. |
CMS maintenance | We maintain everything for you so you can focus on what matters most: building great content and user experiences. | They manage your CMS. |
Global caching | High-performance global caching layer included. | Caching included on the API. |
Media CDN | Global media CDN built-in. | CDN included. |
Image processing | Image optimization and processing service included. | Image sizes and optimization capabilities. |
Extendability | Templates and integrations offered. | UI extensions and apps. |
Frontend | BYOFE (Bring your own front end) Front end code is decoupled from CMS. | Front end is decoupled from the backend CMS. |
Number of projects | One login, unlimited projects. | One login, multiple projects. |
Annual costs | Save time and money on developer resource spending. Consider us your outsourced CMS team. Get started for free. Free to start | Watch out for a large price cliff to climb from an entry plan to anything larger. You'll be at an Enterprise level taking out a second mortgage on your house before you know it. HIGH |
Uptime you can depend on
Reliable infrastructure
No need to fear downtime for your content. Our service is built to auto scale through bursts of high traffic so you can focus on your content and business, we'll handle the infrastructure.
Upgrade your uptime
Get a 99.95% uptime guarantee with our Enterprise plans.
Trust our history
Check out our status page for historical uptime on our serverless, cloud infrastructure.