deco CMS vs Keystatic

deco CMS is an open-source, self-hostable content management system for commerce teams and enterprise operations managing storefronts across platforms and sites. It pairs a visual editor for business teams with an AI agent for other changes, operating on the customer's stack. Non-technical staff can edit, create, and publish without tickets, while design-system components and tokens can remain locked. It works with Shopify, VTEX, Wake, VNDA, and headless or custom stacks. Teams can make audience variants by country, state, or UTM and run A/B tests at the edge; results can be exported to Google Analytics 4. Changes are organized as changesets with shareable previews, while content and code stay in the repository, and the page describes rollback as one click. The agent follows system prompts, design-system references, and repository skills; TypeScript typing can block invalid data-layer commits. The open-source core is free. Studio costs $20 a month, billed at $20 /user/month, while Enterprise costs $10,000 a month. The Outcome operation plan has no listed price.

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.