deco CMS vs Outstatic

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.

Outstatic is a Markdown-focused content management system for websites. Its editor works with Markdown and MDX files in GitHub repositories, where content is stored without a separate database or server. Content is arranged into Collections, Documents, and Singletons; Singletons can hold unique items such as a homepage or site settings. The editor lists custom fields and AI completion. The homepage names support for Docsify, VuePress, MkDocs, SvelteKit, Next.js, Hugo, Docusaurus, Nuxt, Astro, Hexo, Eleventy, VitePress, Zola, Nextra, Fumadocs, Markdoc, and Contentlayer. Outstatic supports self-hosting and a hosted PRO dashboard. GitHub login is documented through OAuth applications or GitHub Apps; PRO adds Google and email sign-in. A PRO project API key can bring AI completion, member management, added login options, automatic content setup, and a managed GitHub relay to a self-hosted instance. The free plan is free; PRO is $9.99 a month, billed $9.99/user/mo. Eligible new PRO subscriptions include a 14-day trial.