deco CMS vs Pages CMS

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.

Pages CMS is an open-source content management system for static sites whose files are stored in GitHub repositories. It edits repository files directly, so content does not require a separate CMS database. Users add a `.pages.yml` configuration, sign in, edit through the web interface, and save changes back to GitHub. The visual editor includes rich-text editing and syntax highlighting. A media manager supports drag-and-drop uploads and selecting multiple files, while full-text and faceted search covers content. The design is responsive for mobile. Pages CMS is available as an online hosted service, Vercel deployment, or self-hosted installation, with MIT-licensed source code. GitHub is supported; the FAQ says GitLab and Bitbucket are not. AWS S3 and Cloudflare R2 connections are listed as upcoming. The Free plan costs nothing. Help is offered through documentation, Discord, and GitHub issues.