Headless CMS architecture separates content management from content delivery, offering flexibility for modern multi-channel experiences. Our development team at Softechinfra has implemented solutions with multiple headless platforms.
What is Headless CMS?
Traditional vs. Headless
Benefits of Headless
Leading Platforms
Contentful
- Overview
- Cloud-hosted
- Enterprise-grade
- Rich ecosystem
- Strengths
- Excellent API
- Strong localization
- Good media handling
- Extensive integrations
- Considerations
- Premium pricing
- Complex pricing model
- Learning curve
Best For: Enterprise, multi-brand
Sanity
- Overview
- Customizable studio
- Real-time collaboration
- GROQ query language
- Strengths
- Highly customizable
- Real-time editing
- Portable text
- Generous free tier
- Considerations
- Custom query language
- Requires development skills
- Smaller ecosystem
Best For: Custom content experiences
Strapi
- Overview
- Open source
- Self-hosted or cloud
- Node.js based
- Strengths
- Free to start
- Full control
- REST and GraphQL
- Plugin system
- Considerations
- Self-hosting responsibility
- Less mature
- Smaller team
Best For: Budget-conscious, control needed
Prismic
- Overview
- Cloud-hosted
- Slice Machine
- User-friendly
- Strengths
- Easy to use
- Good free tier
- Preview capabilities
- Integration SDK
- Considerations
- Less flexible
- Limited customization
- Smaller ecosystem
Best For: Marketing teams, simplicity
Hygraph (GraphCMS)
- Overview
- GraphQL-native
- Cloud-hosted
- Schema builder
- Strengths
- GraphQL API
- Content federation
- Flexible schema
- Good DX
- Considerations
- GraphQL knowledge needed
- Premium features costly
- Smaller community
Best For: GraphQL teams, complex data
Comparison Matrix
| Feature | Contentful | Sanity | Strapi | Prismic | |---------|-----------|--------|--------|---------| | Hosting | Cloud | Cloud | Self/Cloud | Cloud | | API | REST/GraphQL | GROQ | REST/GraphQL | REST | | Pricing | $$$ | $$ | Free/$ | $$ | | Ease of Use | Good | Medium | Medium | Excellent | | Customization | Medium | High | High | Low | | Localization | Excellent | Good | Good | Good |
Decision Framework
Questions to Ask
Recommendations
- Enterprise, Multi-region
- Contentful
- Sanity (custom needs)
- Startup, Budget-conscious
- Strapi
- Sanity (free tier)
- Marketing-led
- Prismic
- Contentful
- Developer-led
- Sanity
- Strapi
Implementation Tips
Content Modeling
Integration
Migration
Conclusion
"The right headless CMS depends on your specific needs, team, and budget. Consider long-term scalability and content team experience."— Rishikesh Baidya, Lead Developer
Choose a headless CMS that aligns with your team's technical capabilities and content strategy. We've implemented headless solutions for projects like AppliedView and our client portals using our CRM development expertise.
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