ButterCMS vs Strapi

ButterCMS is a managed, headless content management platform that delivers content through APIs. It supports websites, ecommerce sites, mobile apps, OTT services, and digital displays, with named framework support for Angular, Django, Laravel, Next.js, React, and Vue. Content tools include visual editing, live preview, SEO metadata, scheduled publishing, localization, and an AI Assistant. Security practices include encryption in transit and storage, role-based access controls, and tenant isolation. Integrations cover CDPs, CRMs, analytics, digital asset management, ecommerce, development, and delivery workflows; commerce connections include Shopify and Magento. The free plan is free and includes 50K API calls per month, 100 GB monthly bandwidth, five pages, 50 blog posts, 50 collections, and 500 assets. Basic costs $71 a month, billed annually; Advanced is $224 a month and Professional is $359 a month, both billed annually. A 14-day trial is listed. Webhooks are add-ons on Advanced and Professional and included with Enterprise.

Strapi is an open-source, MIT-licensed headless CMS that generates REST and GraphQL APIs from content models. It supports custom content types, multilingual content, a media library, editorial workflows, previews, webhooks, and custom user roles. Developers can customize the admin panel, APIs, data layer, controllers, services, and middleware. Strapi can be self-hosted or deployed to Strapi Cloud, which includes Postgres, a CDN, and email. The Community CMS plan includes unlimited entries and API calls; the Community plan is free forever and includes unlimited usage. Cloud Starter costs $35 a month and includes 100,000 API requests, 50 GB of asset storage, 50 GB of asset bandwidth, unlimited database entries, and one environment. Cloud Business costs $450 a month and includes 10,000,000 API requests. Cloud prices exclude applicable local taxes. A 30-day Growth trial is available for a self-hosted project without a credit card. Growth includes three seats, with additional seats costing $15 per month each. Strapi was founded in 2015 and offers support options ranging from community and basic support to priority, premium, concierge, and dedicated support.