Decap CMS vs Keystatic

Decap CMS is an open-source content management system for Git-backed static sites. Its web editor gives non-technical contributors structured fields, rich text, and live preview, while draft, review, and publish statuses support editorial workflows. Content remains in the user's repository, preserving version history and enabling branch workflows and deployment checks. It connects to GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Bitbucket, Azure, Git Gateway, proxy, and test backends. Editors can work with a media library and integrations such as Cloudinary or Uploadcare. Content models can include collections, nested structures, relation fields, and slug behavior; developers can add widgets, editor components, and plugins. The MIT-licensed CMS is free and self-hosted, so users supply authentication and a backend. The Free plan is free and lists one site and one seat. Pro is €19 a month, then €10/site and €6/seat per month for additions. Deploy notifications are currently available for GitHub-hosted sites; GitLab support is on the roadmap.

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.