Cosmic vs. Kentico Kontent

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 Kentico Kontent

Kentico Kontent is a Headless CMS that positions itself as a cloud-based content management platform that streamlines content production and delivery while offering developers all the benefits of a headless CMS.

Developers and Creators

Check out the Cosmic API docs and the Kentico Kontent API docs to see the difference in approach.

Cosmic provides everything your team of developers and content creators need: powerful and intuitive APIs for developers, and an easy-to-use dashboard for content creators. We've removed all complexity and CMS maintenance, so your team can focus on building great products faster, together.

Limitations

With Kentico Kontent, you will see that they put some pretty hard limits on content item count, localization, user roles, and more.

	Cosmic	Kentico Kontent
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 extensions	UI extensions.
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

Feature comparison subject to change. Contact support@cosmicjs.com to report any needed updates.

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.