--- title: "Contentful Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026" description: "Review of Contentful Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs." source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/contentful-profile/" page_type: "product" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Content Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/) / Contentful Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/contentful-profile/reviews/)[Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/contentful-profile/alternatives/) # Contentful Review From $300/month Free version Free trial 3 plans Wondering if Contentful is right for your organization? Our Content Management Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - Integrations - User Reviews - Popular Comparisons ## Overview Contentful 4.5 [(63)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/contentful-profile/reviews/) Pricing Starting at $300.00 flat rate per month ### About Contentful Contentful® Composable Content Platform brings the building blocks of content together to create once and reuse for any digital experience. The API-first platform integrates easily with data sources and new functionality as digital experiences and technology evolve. With built-in orchestration, a robust app ecosystem, and app framework to easily extend the platform, Contentful frees teams across the business to work together to connect, create, and extend content more efficiently. Contentful helps companies unlock the power of digital content so they can build faster and deliver at scale, making their content a strategic business asset. Nearly 30% of the Fortune 500 and thousands of companies around the world rely on Contentful to help them bring their best ideas to life. For more information, visit www.contentful.com. Wondering if Contentful is right for your organization? Our Content Management Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. ## Contentful User Interface ## Popular Contentful Alternatives Main Product Contentful 4.5 [(63)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/contentful-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.18Ease of use - 4.28Value for money - 4.13Customer support - 4.36Functionality Pricing Starting at $300.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Kontent.ai](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/kontico-kontent-profile/) 4.5 [(52)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/kontico-kontent-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.44Ease of use - 4.26Value for money - 4.70Customer support - 4.21Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price Alternative Product [Payload](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/payload-cms-profile/) 4.9 [(48)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/payload-cms-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.75Ease of use - 4.94Value for money - 4.79Customer support - 4.67Functionality Pricing Starting at $35.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Strapi](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/strapi-profile/) 4.6 [(66)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/strapi-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.48Ease of use - 4.65Value for money - 4.26Customer support - 4.47Functionality Pricing Starting at $99.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Agility CMS](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/agilitycms-profile/) 4.4 [(48)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/agilitycms-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.42Ease of use - 4.11Value for money - 4.54Customer support - 4.09Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price Alternative Product [CoreMedia Experience Platform](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/390592-CoreMedia-Experience-Platform/) 4.4 [(22)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/390592-CoreMedia-Experience-Platform/#reviews) Ratings Breakdown - 4.05Ease of use - 4.29Value for money - 4.55Customer support - 4.59Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price ## Contentful Pricing and Plans Starting price: $300.00 per month Free Trial Free Version Free $0.00 Plan includes: - 10 users - 2 roles - 2 locales - 100K API calls per month - 50 GB CDN bandwidth per month - Structured content - Developer tools - Editorial experience - 1 Starter Space included Lite $300.00 flat rate, per month Plan includes: - 20 users - 3 roles - 3 locales - 1M API calls per month - 100 GB CDN bandwidth per month - Comments and task management - Scheduled publishing - Live collaboration - 1 Starter Space included - 1 Lite Space available for additional purchase Premium Pricing available upon request Plan includes: - Custom number of users, roles and locales - Unlimited API calls per month - Custom amount of CDN bandwidth - Dedicated Customer Success and Professional Services with 24/7 customer support - Enhanced governance, compliance and security features with up to 99.99% uptime SLA - Unlimited Spaces allowance - Compatible with Personalization, Studio and AI Actions - Multiple custom Spaces Confused about pricing? 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Get a personalized pricing breakdown tailored to your specific needs—no guesswork, no generic estimates. ## Contentful Features - Popular features found in Content Management Access Controls/Permissions Audio File Management Content Library Customizable Templates Image Editing Search/Filter SEO Management Text Editing Version Control Video Support - More features of Contentful Activity Tracking Alerts/Notifications API Approval Process Control Archiving & Retention Asset Library Asset Sharing Calendar Management Categorization/Grouping Collaboration Tools Commenting/Notes Configurable Workflow Content Delivery Content Management Content Publishing Options Data Synchronization De-Coupled Front & Back Ends Digital Asset Management Document Classification Document Management Document Storage Drag & Drop File Management File Sharing Filtering For Developers For Marketers Full Text Search Information Governance Metadata Management Mobile Access Multi-Channel Distribution Multi-Channel Marketing Multi-Language Offline Access Personalization Preview Functionality Rich Text Editor Role-Based Permissions Rule Based Publishing Scheduling SDKs Single Sign On Tagging Template Management Templates Third-Party Integrations Two-Factor Authentication User Management Workflow Management ## Contentful Integrations Algolia Integration rated undefined from -1 review Google Analytics 360 Integration rated undefined from -1 review Slack Integration rated undefined from -1 review Bynder Integration rated undefined from -1 review CircleCI Integration rated undefined from -1 review Heroku Integration rated undefined from -1 review See all 24 integrations ## Contentful User Reviews ## Contentful customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Total reviews: 63 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 37 reviews (59%) - 4 stars: 21 reviews (33%) - 3 stars: 2 reviews (3%) - 2 stars: 3 reviews (5%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.2/5 - Value for money: 4.3/5 - Customer support: 4.1/5 - Functionality: 4.4/5 --- ### Very innovative solution for Composable Content - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Felix P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Accounting - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for free trial - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, I am extremely happy with our decision to use Contentful as our CMS. It has proven to be a powerful and flexible platform that has helped us to create, manage, and publish our digital content more effectively. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I recently started using Contentful as my company's content management system, and I have been extremely impressed with the platform's capabilities. One of the standout features for me has been the flexible content modeling. With Contentful, it's easy to create custom content types and fields, which has been a huge help in managing our structured content. The multiple language support has also been incredibly useful, as we have a global audience and need to be able to publish content in multiple languages.In addition to these core features, I've also appreciated the ability to integrate Contentful with other tools and platforms. This has made it much easier to manage our content across different channels and to track the performance of our content. The collaboration and workflow management tools have also been very helpful in keeping our content organized and ensuring that everything is reviewed and approved before it goes live.Finally, the robust API has been a game-changer for our team. It has allowed us to build custom integrations and applications on top of the platform, which has greatly increased our efficiency and allowed us to do more with our content. #### Cons As a small business owner, I was initially excited to try out Contentful as our company's content management system. However, I have to admit that I've been somewhat disappointed with the platform. While it does offer a wide range of features, I've found it to be quite complex and difficult to use, especially for someone like me who is new to content management systems. The learning curve has been steep, and I've had to spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to use the various features and tools.Another issue I've had with Contentful is the price. It's a premium product, and it can be expensive compared to other content management systems on the market. As a small business owner, I have to be careful with my budget, and the cost of Contentful is a significant investment.Additionally, I've found the customization options to be somewhat limited. While I understand that Contentful is designed to be a general-purpose platform, I've had a few specific needs that the platform hasn't been able to accommodate. This has been frustrating, as I would have liked to be able to tailor the platform to our company's specific needs.Finally, I've had some negative experiences with Contentful's customer support. On several occasions, I've had to wait a long time to get a response, and when I have received a response, it hasn't always been helpful. This has added to my frustration with the platform. --- ### Content with Contentful - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Lindsey Raye P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Easy to use, great for the c&$ #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy to use, updates quickly when edited. The CTA flexibility was the best. #### Cons The child pages and drop down menu were all intertwined or bootstrapped to Ruby and Heroku so the ability to edit those areas was more difficult #### Reasons for choosing Contentful Integration capability for Heroku --- ### Very inflexible when it comes to styling changes, use only if you have plenty of engineers - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2017 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 1/5 #### Pros It is impossible for users to create elements that are totally out of line with the corporate design. Contentful also loads faster than many other CMS. #### Cons There isn't much I like about Contentful. It is impossible to copy entire pages without a lot of effort, which makes it very time-consuming to create new pages. While you can re-use existing elements, the problem is that if you change them, they are changed everywhere, and there is no way to just copy an element in order to use it as a new element (i.e., changes you make to it don't affect the element you copied). As others have mentioned before, it sometimes takes a quarter of an hour for changes you made to appear on the preview pages, which is just painful (Wordpress is pretty much instant). But by far the biggest pain is that there is no way for the user to simply access the CSS. We have to go back to our engineering team for every little tweak we want, even if it is just the padding of an element or the alignment of a certain style of text. Another issue I have is that it is hard to figure out where on a new page you are while you are editing it. Unlike Wordpress, where you can see the overall structure of your page elements clearly on an overview page, you can only see the rows of the page on the overview in Contentful - you have no idea what the structure inside each row looks like until you click on it. That means you're getting disorientated quite quickly as to where you need to click to edit element X of the page. Overall, I find Contentful terrible to use. It has a few benefits, but at least from a content management user experience those don't outweigh the significant downsides at all. --- ### Robust and intuitive CMS platform - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Brett R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Contentful CMS is not only easy to learn and use but also easy to scale and maintain - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Muneeb K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Contentful is a very cost-effective content management tool if you're not planning to add tons of content. It's easy to scale but can be pricy. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I have worked with a number of different CMS platforms but I like Contentful for its ease of use and scalability. It can help you manage large amounts of data with minimal effort. It works great for static websites as well. #### Cons There's a fair bit of a learning curve, but benefits outweigh time investment. I'm not a fan of the pricing plans. The lowest tier is very affordable but other options are very expensive. --- ### The best option for a headless CMS - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: John M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is truly cloud-first for a headless approach. You can build your content model and control your input with easy validation (min/max/regex) and even dependencies on other models. It is truly headless and integration with node, react, asp.net, and php have all been relatively easy. Node was definitely the easiest integration. #### Cons I would have said migration between environments, but they recently released a solution for that. I haven't verified it but I'm excited about it. I think the other thing is dealing with deleted fields, it makes it a bit challenging that you have to remove it from view and then delete it to make sure it won't break the existing model. I also get frustrated when I make an existing field that is required and there is no notification that the content doesn't match the new criteria. --- ### Interesting content management platform - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Yann T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Translation and Localization - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: September 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I work with a team of translators in many different languages, and we are often required to update sections or paragraphs of different articles we wrote previously. We've started to use Contentful in the beginning of this year and it showed really useful with regard to this matter. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Contentful comes really handy when you need to edit portions or paragraphs in your website. Besides, it supports a wide array of languages, which is a big plus when working with a multilingual team. #### Cons The full website is managed through Contentful, which means a lot of different pages and content listed, and at times it can get confusing retrieving a page or even a paragraph you are looking for. #### Reasons for switching to Contentful Choice of the management team. --- ### Contentful is useful and wonderful - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Brandon Z. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Translation and Localization - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I'd like to recommand contentful as it is easy to use, and easy to config store data for develop a project. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros stable, friendly configuration, data structure is clear, and have api auto configuration #### Cons navigation is a little bit tricky, like when duplicate an entity, it lost the original entity's position, so have to go back and track the entity again --- ### CMS solution that lets you publish content simply and easily - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Courtney H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Insurance - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Contentful is a content management system solution which has a great API focus and allows us to develop our own data relationships and data structure. It provides us complete flexibility within projects and gives us the capacity to distribute to different types of platforms with less hassle. The user interface is straightforward and really simplifies the process for our backend system. #### Cons When used in Firefox browser, there are some occasional glitches. However, it works perfectly well in Chrome and Safari, so it’s not really a big problem. When I contacted support, they reviewed and tested it but they said it might just be a plugin issue. --- ### So long, WordPress! Welcome to the future of nimble web development! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Andrew F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: September 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered The free developer plan is amazing, and overall Contentful has made my life SO MUCH BETTER. I no longer have to worry about updates, databases, or clients breaking their sites. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The UI of Contentful is superb in its own right, but especially when compared to other similar CMS interfaces. Everything is laid out neatly, and it's easy to sort and edit your content. When paired with a static site generator like Gatsby, Contentful is WAY more safe, dependable, and low-maintenance than WordPress (which I'm sad to say, after being a WP dev for years, is a complete mess). #### Cons Modeling content can be tricky at first, especially since you can't have differing fields within a content type. But once you understand the general concept of "referencing," it becomes quite easy and even enjoyable to structure nested and/or complex data. --- Showing 1 - 10 of 63 Reviews [See All Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/contentful-profile/reviews/) ## Contentful Popular Comparisons [Kontent.ai vs Contentful](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/contentful-profile/vs/kontico-kontent/)[Payload vs Contentful](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/contentful-profile/vs/payload-cms/)[Strapi vs Contentful](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/contentful-profile/vs/strapi/)[Agility CMS vs Contentful](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/agilitycms-profile/vs/contentful/) [Compare All Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/contentful-profile/alternatives/) ## Other Top Recommended Content Management Software [Revver](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/revver-profile/) **4.4** (1021) Recently recommended **13** times [Klyck](https://www.softwareadvice.com/business-plan/klyck-profile/) **4.9** (29) Recently recommended **13** times [Square 9](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cms/square-9-profile/) **4.5** (144) Recently recommended **11** times [Centralpoint](https://www.softwareadvice.com/crm/centralpoint-profile/) **4.6** (9) Recently recommended **9** times Stuck Between Options? 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