

Contentful Software
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About Contentful
Contentful Pricing
Community Plan (Free) Get your API keys and start hacking. Ideal for individual developers working on personal sites, hackathons, or philanthropic projects. Team ($489.00/month) Get started for free, then upgrade based on your project’s needs. Ideal for a small team building a digital project or two. Enterprise (Custom) Scale up a content platform to power one — or hundreds of — digital experiences. Grows with your needs, from one team or business unit to your whole organization.
Starting price:
$489.00 per month
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OVERALL RATING
Showing 1 - 5 of 48 reviews

Brett
Verified reviewer
Company size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Financial Services
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
June 2022
Robust and intuitive CMS platform
Pros
It has a simple user interface and a small learning curve. It provides a powerful open API integration that allows you to connect with any third party application. It makes it easy to configure our content workflow to fit today's needs. The tool also has editing options available for published content and preview of the changes made.
Cons
For new users navigating the pages is a bit tricky. It is necessary that they improve the pricing models and adapt them to the needs of the companies.

Ali
Verified reviewer
Company size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
February 2021
Enterprise website management platform for organization’s with lot of data
In the few years that we have been working with various CMSs, Contentful has been very successful and one of the safest and most well-designed decisions is being made for your organization. They are both safe and have a great status.
Pros
I like Single Sign-On for easy and secure access of team members, It is also a great platform when you’ve got a lot of content and data for your organization and need a professional platform for categorizing your data in the shortest time. GraphsQL is great, and at last, Contentful is user-friendly and easy to understand for newbies.
Cons
Because a team is working on a project in a short amount of time and maybe working two or three shifts to edit the content of several people, a more professional and secure log is needed to record all events in detail.
Reasons for choosing Contentful
Very nice support and on time and more reasonable price according to current and future possibilities
Reasons for switching to Contentful
The content of a project was very large and the classification and synchronization of content with Cantenful are excellent.
Cesar
Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Internet
Time used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
May 2022
Feature rich, dense and mature but watch out for the hidden quirks!
Feature rich, dense and feels mature. Still, the "not so great bits" of Contentful ended up being deal breakers and made us switch to other options on the market.
Pros
For editors and copywriters the experience was intuitive enough. All I can recall are some complaints about the asset picker. For developers, I loved that there's a certification exam and a curriculum. https://www.contentful.com/help/contentful-certification/ I did the exam and that helped me structure our projects in a way that reduced development complexity – and by extension, development costs for our clients. Other developers in our company who also took it share the same feeling.
Cons
The limits on how many content types you can have on a space. https://www.contentful.com/developers/docs/technical-limits/ Unless you're running the enterprise plan, chances are your team will quickly run out of content types. This makes working with a "component" based approach painful. For instance, if you wish to port an existing design system on a 1:1 mapping and don't have the enterprise plan you'll quickly run out of components. This was the case for one of our projects and it meant the development team had to prioritise which content types were actually critical enough to create – this frustrated both developers and the content team.
Reasons for switching to Contentful
Our client had a fixed contract with the service.
Matthew
Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Environmental Services
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
May 2022
Easy To Use But Limited
Overall easy but I’d recommend a Webflow or Wordpress as a more elegant toral solution for content management.
Pros
I use Contentful to manage content for our website. Editing text and starting new templates is intuitive. Uploading images is easy. In fact, I learned HTML coding through add and editing Staff bios. Publishing and editing content is also easy although it’s not clear why un-publishing still requires you to delete content from categories/buckets even though the content isn’t live.
Cons
The things I like least are the tools that I didn’t know exist. I didn’t know there were collaboration tools and I think image editing is limited. The UX on the platform itself is not good and features are buried.
Brent
Company size: 1 employee
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Review Source: Capterra
April 2020
An Excellent CMS
Overall I find it a delight to work with. Highly recommended.
Pros
I love all the following: the Infrastructure as Code that allows me to define my models through software, the SDK that allows me to load or update content via automation, the apps that allow webhook integrations such as with Gatsby, Netlify and Github. Finally, I love that it is a SaaS offering where data backups and DB upgrades are not my problem!
Cons
Thee free tier allows me to make two CMS systems. It would be nice if the free tier offered, say, up to five. The first paid for tier feels pricey if all I need was simply that third "not-free" CMS. It would be great if they had a "per CMS" paid tier that allowed a third, fourth, fifth CMS (etc.) at $3.95/month each...or something like that.
Reasons for switching to Contentful
Maintenance on WordPress content is clumsy. In particular, the developer work-flow for WordPress is horrible.