Conloca vs Keystatic

Conloca is a free, open-source content management system built specifically for Astro websites. Its browser editor, powered by Puck, lets editors assemble and update pages with drag-and-drop components. Content is stored as VXJSON files in the project’s Git repository, without a database or external service dependency. Every edit creates a Git commit with author attribution, allowing teams to review differences and revert changes. Separate content can be maintained for each configured locale, and MDX combines Markdown with components. Conloca includes live preview and a media library. When editors change one page simultaneously, ETag-based conflict detection displays a resolution dialog. The system writes to a temporary file before atomically renaming it to reduce partial writes after a crash. It runs on Bun and can deploy in Docker, on a VPS with systemd or behind a Cloudflare Tunnel. Cloudflare Access authentication with JWT validation is available out of the box. Conloca costs nothing.

Keystatic makes Markdown, JSON, and YAML content in a codebase editable through an admin interface or directly in files. It also supports Markdoc and MDX, with integration guides for Astro, Next.js, and Remix. Content can be stored locally, in GitHub, or in both locations, and the product is described as requiring no database. Keystatic Cloud connects to GitHub so team members can edit without individual GitHub accounts. Teams can contain multiple projects, while every user on a team can access all of them. Optional Cloud Images stores, optimizes, and delivers images for websites. Cloud Pro adds experimental real-time multi-person editing on one document. The Reader API retrieves project-directory data. A free plan allows up to three users per team with unlimited teams and projects. Cloud Pro costs $10.00 per month, plus $5.00 per month for each additional user beyond three. The project is experimental.