Cloud CMS vs Strapi

Cloud CMS is an editorial platform for creating, approving, and publishing content to customer-facing applications in real time. Editors work in rich-text forms, approve material, and publish it with a click. Gitana tracks content creation, changes, and deletions, with visual comparison, branching, merging, and reverting. Teams can schedule future releases for automatic publication and use hot-fix support. Content searches can span branches and projects through full-text or structured queries, with exports to CSV, Excel, or ZIP. Event-driven actions, rules, scripts, emails, and webhooks can respond to changes in content and other platform objects. The API uses OAuth 2.0 over HTTP or HTTPS and covers publishing, workflow, security, versioning, search, and analytics. Cloud CMS is offered as a hosted subscription or Docker containers for on-premise or private-cloud deployment using Docker and Kubernetes. The pricing model is freemium, with a free Developer Edition and paid plans from $220/mo. The maker documents role-based authorization, SSO, MFA, encrypted storage, TLS, and continuous backups. The container registry is accessible only to customers with a purchased commercial license.

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.