Cosmic vs. Strapi

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 Strapi

Strapi is an open source Node.js Headless CMS that offers the ability to build customizable APIs. Cosmic is an alternative to Strapi that your developers and content creators will love.

Developers and Creators

Check out the Cosmic API docs and the Strapi 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.

Additional Maintenance

With Strapi, you will need to maintain and host everything yourself, adding additional development costs to your projects. With Cosmic, we provide a hosted web dashboard so can focus on what really matters: creating great content and user experiences, not CMS infrastructure and maintenance.

	Cosmic	Strapi
Technology	A global edge compute network and high performance CDN.	MongoDB database, Node.js.
Scalability	All components are infinitely scalable. Built on global edge cloud technology.	Does not scale easily. Limited by your servers, hosting provider, and budget.
Security	We manage the security for you. Data encryption at rest with 256-bit SSL encryption in transit. Two-factor authentication included free.	You manage the security yourself. No default data encryption at rest or in transit.
CMS maintenance	We maintain everything for you so you can focus on what matters most: building great content and user experiences.	You deploy, host, and maintain everything yourself. Along with your application and content, you need to maintain updates and security for your CMS system.
Global caching	High-performance global caching layer included.	No caching included out of the box.
Media CDN	Global media CDN built-in.	No CDN included out of the box.
Image processing	Image optimization and processing service included.	Manually manage your own image sizes and optimizations.
Extendability	Templates and extensions	Themes and integrations.
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	You will need to hire developer resources to maintain the CMS. Average salary of a full-stack developer is $111,600 per year. You may need to hire 1-3 developers to maintain the CMS. $224,200

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.