Strapi 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Strapi

4.7

(65)

Pricing

Starting at $99.00 per month

About Strapi

Strapi is an open-source content management system that helps businesses create and manage content for websites and mobile applications.

It allows tech teams to spin up projects faster, thanks to the REST or GraphQL API generated out of the box. 100% JavaScript, Strapi works smoothly with modern tools. You can easily customize either the API endpoints or the admin panel, as well as add plugins or integrations for other tools. No need to compromise if you can customize!

With Strapi, editorial or marketing teams can independently create and manage new content, without asking the dev team for help. They can also use custom components to quickly create new pages. It's the golden middle between custom-developed pages and website builders.

Strapi supports text, images, videos, audios and PDF files. It lets you have multiple site or app versions in different languages. You can also restrict the access to the admin panel by setting different roles and permissions.

Strapi can be used for multiple websites or apps and deliver content from one source of truth to as many channels as you want.

Loved by developers and supported by a global community of members and partners, Strapi brin...

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Strapi Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $99.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$99.00

per user, per month

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Strapi Features

Popular features found in Headless CMS
Access Controls/Permissions
API
Content Publishing Options
Multi-Channel Marketing
More features of Strapi
Asset Lifecycle Management
Audio File Management
Configurable Workflow
Content Library
Content Management
Customizable Branding
Customizable Forms
Customizable Templates
De-Coupled Front & Back Ends
Document Classification
Filtering
For Developers
For Marketers
Full Text Search
Image Editing
Interactive Content
Metadata Management
Mobile Access
Multi-Language
Preview Functionality
Rich Text Editor
Role-Based Permissions
Rule Based Publishing
Scheduling
Search/Filter
SEO Management
Single Sign On
Text Editing
Third-Party Integrations
User Management
Video Support
Website Management
Workflow Management
WYSIWYG Editor

Strapi Integrations

Cloudinary

Sentry

Mailgun

Algolia

SendGrid

Heroku

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Strapi User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

74%

23%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

4.3

Functionality

4.5

Sangam K.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2023

I'm saving hours daily

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Earlier I used to create my APIs on ExpressJS and it used to take hell lot of time in creating and testing them. But with Strapi I can create any sort of APIs in just 5-10 minutes. It's that easy!Role Based Access Control, that too in the free plan is a super-power to any business or developer. I really loved it. And now as a freelancer I can create almost any type of web-apps - be it CRM, HRM, Hotel Management system or anything with ease.

Cons:

I wish there were in built aggregator functions in Strapi. That will help developers write custom services and controllers very easily. Additionally, there should be some extra options to change Strapi Branding. Right now we can only change the logo. We should be able to update the color scheme, Brand name and login page template. These additions will be really great!

Haythem T.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

501-1000 employees

Used other for free trial

Reviewed May 2019

wonderful headless cms

i was looking for a headless cms and i found strapi fit perfectly with what i need.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

easy to use simple to setup and to configure support graphql

Cons:

still in alpha no many plugins available

Reasons for choosing Strapi

making wordpress working like a headless cms is quit complicated but with strapi it was like 2 minutes and my api was ready to be connected with my react frontend.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

Self-Employed

Used weekly for free trial

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

strapi get the job done

So far so good. I am still new to it but I'm enjoying it nonetheless.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I loved the nice admin dashboard, the simple setup and the addition of authentication

Cons:

I don't have any serious concern yet. I will give more information later

Rikki T.

Verified reviewer

Hospitality

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2023

A good core product with numerous small downsides.

I used it self-hosted for a couple of personal projects on v3. I had a really good time during setup and for a short time after. The migration to v4 was painful. v4 itself doesn't feel like a big enough upgrade or a robust enough product for it to have been worth it, and each update brings some sort of breaking change.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's really easy to create a data model and have a usable API and admin panel for it. This feature is so good that it's almost worth putting up with all the snags.

Cons:

The migration of code from v3 to v4 codebases was painful. It took several months for basic tooling (like database migration) to be available, and over a year later it is still not as good as it should have been.Migration between versions is not easy (upgrade versions of several dependencies, then find blog posts about migrations, which often ask you to run scripts on your code/ database). This could be automated, surely. Documentation for features often covers only one usecase, and is written in blogpost style. Even on their own documentation (not the guides)Plugins are not simple to write and the documentation on it is not clear. You can allegedly use TypeScript to write plugins but the plugin interface types are not well defined, so you're kind of on your own.You can't use Yarn v3+ with it.Deployment is not straightforward, I guess this is an incentive to use their paid service.

Reasons for choosing Strapi

Open source, JavaScript ecosystem

Jb M.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2022

Simplest headless CMS to setup, install and deploy

We've used Strapi for a number of projects from CMS to website manager and ML pipeline. Strapi's API is easier to expose to third-party integrators.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

It goes without saying but Strapi atm is simplest to setup, install and deploy. Part of the reason is that Strapi has an admin UI that covers a lot of aspects of content and API management but still has room for customizations. Strapi is easy to extend on admin-level and plays nicely with other services due to it exposing the API, webhooks and easy extension on code-level.

Cons:

Limited roles on free/open-source version are only 3. With the newer Strapi versions, they've limit the number of roles and you need to pay even if it's self-hosted.

Derrick M.

Verified reviewer

Computer Games

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

API Framework / Headless CMS Made easy (and free)

Honestly this is by far the easiest solution for jumping into the headless CMS world and even better as an API framework to power whatever your needs are; Web, Mobile, Desktop, IOT, and even a smart toaster! The Strapi team is great and works hard to release feature and fix bugs as fast as they can.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Strapi is extremely easy to setup Simple database configuration with many choices (Mongo, Postgres, and MySQL) Simple to modify the backend code Getting up and running from zero to a complete API with data in as little as 10 to 20 minutes

Cons:

I do think that more time needs to be spent on building a solid foundation (which the Strapi team are working on) More time needs to be spent testing bugs for all usecases (or some automation for the frontend testing needs to be implemented and I believe that is being done right now) While not an issue with the software itself, I do think that services like Heroku need to be put on the backburner and not pushed as heavily as Strapi is a service, Heroku and other "serverless" environments are not built to handle complex applications. At the same time more user involvment with Pull Requests are something that would greatly help development and bug fixing.

Milton Carlos K.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2021

A great headless cms for your MVP

I became a regular user. There are few projects in which I do not use strapi, as it proves to be a rapid development helping in the evaluation of the features.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is open-source. It is Restifull but has support for GraphQL It provides the Playground to build and test your queries and mutations. Docker support. All data is yours, that is, you have full control over your database. The project receives frequent investments from large companies. Extremely easy and quick to start a project.

Cons:

Relationships in the database are still a critical and sometimes problematic point. It has no migrations of data. There is no 2FA. It does not delete unnecessary tables and columns from the database. Typescript is not supported.

Reasons for choosing Strapi

With the strapi the data is mine.

Silas M.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

Better open source option

Helped deliver some projects faster!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like that it brings ease and speed when creating api and content managers.

Cons:

I find it a little complex to move and customize yet!

Luiz B.

Verified reviewer

Internet

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

One of the best Headless CMS i've used.

I use it to provide a API for my Nuxt.js Applications. As it is simple to use, create apis for my applications its not hard to me anymore, since i've been start to use Strapi API.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The simplicity of use. It's very easy to use and have so much options to make simple to create a api that my web applications needed.

Cons:

Its not simple to deploy it on production servers, especially on AWS and Heroku. I have so much issues before have success to deploy it on theses servers.