Comparisons anchored on Strapi, the open-core Node.js headless CMS.
Two headless CMS choices for developer teams. The deciding factors are licensing (MIT open core versus the Monospace Sustainable Core License), whether you start from a new schema or an existing SQL database, and supported databases.
Strapi's MIT Community Edition against the paid Growth and Enterprise self-hosted plans: seat-based pricing, which features need a license such as SSO, audit logs, review workflows, content history and releases, and the support each tier gets.
Strapi Cloud against self-hosting Strapi: per-project plan prices and usage allowances, which backups Strapi Cloud takes and what they leave out, the region fixed at project creation, and the managed PostgreSQL database with its external database caveats.
Two TypeScript headless CMSs compared: Strapi against MIT-licensed Payload, which installs into a Next.js app. Covers content modeling, databases supported, admin customization, which features each keeps for paid plans and how each is hosted.
The three self-hosted headless CMS options developers shortlist, compared on license terms, data model (schema-first versus database-first versus code-first), databases, APIs, paid features and hosting.
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