Learn when and why you should choose a headless CMS like Cosmic over any other
Cosmic vs. Webflow
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 Webflow
Launched in 2013, Webflow offers a visual-first website builder. Their claim is that marketers, designers, and devs can create web experiences with little to no coding. However, as it tries to keep up with new Headless CMS solutions, it is showing its age. Cosmic is an alternative to Webflow that your developers and content creators will love.
Visual Builder vs Headless CMS
Visual website builders have been around for awhile and they come with limitations. These limitations can present themselves when further cusomizations are required beyond the visual web page building experience.
A headless CMS enables teams to have more flexibility and customization for development. Content is stored in an API and can be delivered to any web experience.
Choosing a headless CMS like Cosmic offers both the power and flexibility of API-first content, with an intuitive and easy to use dashboard content management experience for content editors.
Cosmic | Webflow | |
|---|---|---|
| Technology | A global edge compute network and high performance CDN. | Cloud hosted. |
| Scalability | All components are infinitely scalable. Built on global edge cloud technology. | Managed scaling. |
| Security | We manage the security for you. Data encryption at rest with 256-bit SSL encryption in transit. Two-factor authentication included free. | Managed security. |
| CMS maintenance | We maintain everything for you so you can focus on what matters most: building great content and user experiences. | Managed maintenance. |
| Global caching | High-performance global caching layer included. | Included. |
| Media CDN | Global media CDN built-in. | Included. |
| Image processing | Image optimization and processing service included. | Included. |
| Extendability | Templates and integrations offered. | Integrations offered. |
| Frontend | BYOFE (Bring your own front end) Front end code is decoupled from CMS. | Frontend included. |
| Number of projects | One login, unlimited projects. | Unlimited. |
| Annual costs | Save time and money on developer resource spending. Consider us your outsourced CMS team. Get started for free. Free to start | Low to mid. $500 |
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.
