Headless Cms reviews from Reddit
Summary
We analyzed 586 Reddit reviews across 23 subreddits and 66 posts to rank the best Headless Cms brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/nextjs, r/webdev, r/Nuxt, r/reactjs, r/vuejs. Top-rated brands include Strapi (4.1/5), Directus (4.4/5), Sanity (4.3/5).
Stats
Reviews586
Subreddits23
Posts66
Brands95
Products3
586 reviews from
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By Brand
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#1
Strapi
4.1
(85)
"Strapi is great. I’m using it on a bunch of production sites."
"Strapi is the best CMS for Nextjs that I have ever used."
"I have been using Strapi for the last few years."
"Strapi"
"Strapi! In case you need any help, feel free to reach out."
"I’m running 100,000 daily visits on it without any issues."
"I would recommend you try out Strapi a headless CMS."
"If you need something straightforward just go with Strapi."
"I have been using Strapi for some time and I can recommend it."
"I love strapi. Once you get to the more advanced features you can also deploy without the CMS for example which makes for very light weight hosting."
#2
Directus
4.4
(67)
"Self hosted directus on a hetzner server."
"Directus is best CMS for your client."
"I gave Directus a shot and I really like it and easy to use."
"Directus"
"Directus is free and very good."
"I highly recommend directus, just self host it"
"You can recommend you directus. It is a headless cms."
"Go with Directus and you won't regret. It works beautifully with nuxt and vue"
"I'm going to add another plus 1 to Directus. Moved from Strapi with Nuxt front end, to Directus."
"I always recommend Directus. It's pleasent to work with, easy to use, and powerful."
#3
Sanity
4.3
(68)
"I recommend Sanity or Payload CMS."
"I highly recommend SanityIo."
"I recently used sanity to set up a blog and the experience was seamless."
"I love Sanity. It’s a great developer experience and content managers love it."
"My personal preference is Storyblok due to its superior visual editor"
"[sanity.io](http://sanity.io)"
"I've been really enjoying sanity. +1"
"+1 for Sanity.io Any system where it's schema is typed and can be tracked in git is a win in my eyes."
"Sanity every day of the week"
"I recently published a 5 page website for a cocktail bar where I used Sanity CMS for all the content."
#4
Payload
4.4
(45)
"Other than that, Payload can do everything and more that Strapi does, all while being more performant."
"Try Payload"
"I am using PayloadCMS."
"Payload or the even more user friendly one would be prismic."
"Payload is probably the best."
"I recommend you look into Payload CMS."
"Payload"
"Payload CMS is really great."
"If you want open source CMS, you can check out Payload."
"Take a look at payload cms."
#5
Contentful
4.0
(31)
"Contentful is a fantastic choice for situations like this."
"I’ve had great success with Contentful."
"I’ve really enjoyed using Contentful."
"I ended up choosing Contentful."
"Contentful."
"Another company we used shopify and their hydrogen platform which worked well."
"Have you looked into Contentful?"
"Contentful isn’t too bad."
"I recommend exploring Contentful or Sanity for your React app."
"Contentful was a treat to work with nextjs"
#6
Prismic
4.2
(29)
"Prismic 100%."
"Prismic works great with Nextjs."
"Consider Prismic.io! I've used it for a couple of projects already."
"Have used prismic in the past with Rails for exactly what you’ve described."
"I think Prismic was the best in terms of actual ease of use with guides and documentation."
"I'm VERY impressed with Prismic, super affordable, docs are great."
"Try Prismic."
"I'm using prismic on work."
"I like Prismic.io."
"Try Sanity, Storyblock, Prismic or Strapi"
#7
ButterCMS
4.2
(26)
"Check out ButterCMS which is an API-based or headless CMS with a preconfigured blog engine."
"Check out ButterCMS which is an API-based or headless CMS with a preconfigured blog engine."
"Check out ButterCMS which is an API-based or headless CMS with a preconfigured blog engine."
"It's a headless CMS with a preconfigured blog engine, so you don't have to spend time building one."
"It's a headless CMS with a preconfigured blog engine, so you don't have to spend time building one."
"Check out ButterCMS which is an API-based or headless CMS with a preconfigured blog engine."
"It's a headless CMS with a preconfigured blog engine, so you don't have to spend time building one."
"Check out ButterCMS which is an API-based or headless CMS with a preconfigured blog engine."
"Check out ButterCMS which is an API-based or headless CMS with a preconfigured blog engine."
"Check out ButterCMS which is an API-based or headless CMS with a preconfigured blog engine."
#8
Storyblok
4.3
(25)
"Definitely Storyblok"
"+1 for Storyblok and DatoCMS"
"I've used Storyblok lately and it has been a blast."
"Storyblok is very good and has a very generous free community licence."
"I can recommend Storyblok."
"Free, Easy To Use, Use To Integrate"
"Storyblok. Very easy to set up and get working, fully configurable from the UI."
"I am honestly baffled by the fact that apparently [StoryBlok](http://www.storyblok.com) hasn't been mentioned yet!"
"I love Storyblok."
"[Storyblok](https://storyblok.com/)"
#9
DatoCMS
4.4
(15)
"I use DatoCMS on all my projects."
"We have done a comprehensive research a few years ago, and after checking all the options, we went with DatoCMS because of how easy, extensible and affordable it was."
"DatoCMS"
"We migrated to DatoCMS and could not be happier."
"DatoCMS, Sanity, or Contentful are our go to."
"I absolutely recommend it!"
"DatoCMS is quite good."
"DatoCMS is also worth a try."
"I'm DatoCMS team, really love it. The free starter is excellent to try, or to run project with 200 records or less."
"Been using [DatoCMS](https://www.datocms.com/) at our company for almost every project."
#10
WordPress
3.8
(16)
"It works great with GraphQL and Apollo as well."
"And after research I decided to go with just plain Wordpress 😅"
"You can use WordPress with Gato GraphQL, then you publish a persisted query endpoint as if it were REST"
"I personally use Wordpress Headless + ACF Flexible Content and wrote some cutom endpoints that make data fetching easier"
"I’ll get downvoted but WordPress has a great REST API."
"For a blog? Just stick with WordPress."
"WordPress would actually be a good option in this case."
"Wordpress and Graphql would be great choice."
"I like WordPress (with QraphQL)"
"Wordpress + NextJs - it is perfect I believe if you have a client or a team not so tech savvy."
#11
BCMS
4.5
(12)
"[BCMS](https://thebcms.com), definitely. Has a generous free plan."
"BCMS works nicely with React!"
"I'd go with BCMS, any time. It's free and self-hosted with Docker."
"Could be on that list too. Works nicely with Shopify."
"I'm a co-founder of the BCMS, an open-source, free, headless CMS."
"BCMS is, at its core, not a SaaS. It is a one-command-install self-hosted solution."
"BCMS, it's as easy as: `npx @thebcms/cli create next`."
"BCMS works excellent with Nuxt.js, has a smooth integration, and has several well designed nuxt code starters."
"[BCMS](https://github.com/bcms/cms) works nicely."
"BCMS works nicely with Nuxt (both v.2 and v.3). It comes with a Nuxt.js starter, too, for quick-starting development"
#12
Payload CMS
4.1
(13)
"Check out Payload CMS. That will give you a big jump on the API to fetch JSON"
"I can heartily recommend Payload CMS - best headless CMS I've used so far."
"FINALLY someone mentions Payload! Spoiler: I am one of its founders. We launched earlier this year so still a bit under the radar."
"Payload is edging so far though as it has some boiler plate templates for next out there ready to be built on."
"Payload is by far the most well received in react community"
"If you want to get started in the meantime, you can use Payload self-hosted, but it's about to become a lot easier to combine with Next.js"
"You can deploy Payload with any frontend React framework you want all in the same server!"
"Payload looks pretty cool. I'd like to take it for a spin at some point."
"I use Payload CMS in my newest project, besides using mongodb it actually pretty nice."
"I decided to give payload a shot! The selling point for me was the mongo/express/react element of it."
#13
Cockpit
4.3
(8)
"Moved to cockpit recently and really enjoying it."
"Cockpit is maybe something you should consider: [https://getcockpit.com](https://getcockpit.com)"
"Take a look at Cockpit."
"Give Cockpit a try."
"I can recommend Cockpit."
"Try Cockpit."
"Give Cockpit a try."
"I’ve used cockpit a bit and enjoyed it."
#14
Statamic
4.1
(7)
"Statamic all the way!"
"We’ve been using statamic for a while on different production pages, and we are happy with it."
"If PHP is an option, you can also use statamic which ist pretty light weight or bigger ones Like TYPO3 and WordPress"
"It’s been great."
"If you want to stick with PHP maybe look at Statamic. It's paid, but it's based on the PHP framework Laravel."
"A lot of my friends use Statamic"
"Statamic"
#15
Craft CMS
4.5
(6)
"Craft is everything i ever wanted a cms to be. It's a real gem."
"I use it for some of my clients and love it to bits! Def craft CMS"
"CraftCMS is great."
"Learn CraftCMS, Directus, or if you already love Nuxt."
"Craft CMS can easily be used headless."
"Craft CMS can be used as a headless CMS. It comes with a GraphQL endpoint enabled out of the box"
#16
Ghost
4.0
(6)
"I settled on ghost for a few projects."
"I have used Ghost CMS for blogs."
"For blog specifically look at ghost."
"I highly recommend. You can self-host for “free”."
"Works pretty well for me."
"Ghost for just a blog projects"
#17
Builder.io
4.8
(5)
"Builder io."
"If you like visual headless CMS like storyblok try builder.io personally I like builder.io more."
"We settled on builder.io and it's been pretty amazing so far. Don't think we have run into any significant issues at all so far"
"Builder.io is amazing! Check it out."
"Builder.io is easy for non-tech people to create pages, plugs into GraphQL for delivery to your node server and has good help pages."
#18
Hygraph
4.4
(5)
"Hygraph is amazing! The free plan will easily do what you need."
"It's super easy to use and query via GraphCMS."
"I've been using Hygraph recently."
"If you don't care about self hosting then hygraph + shopify"
"Hygraph."
#19
Wagtail
4.2
(5)
"I highly recommend it."
"Wagtail."
"It's very niche but i got plenty of mileage out of wagtail, was very nice to work with but these days strapi beats it i guess"
"I’m a fan of headless wagtail."
"I made used wagtail for one recently but it has some limitations."
#20
React Bricks
4.8
(4)
"Check out also React Bricks: it is based on React components and it has inline visual editing."
"What about React Bricks?"
"It is great for Devs and has a great UX with true visual editing for Content editors."
"[React Bricks] isn't open source, but it's React-based."
#21
GraphCMS
4.5
(4)
"It is amazing and has a wonderful user interface to edit your content."
"The best two I've found are Sanity and GraphCMS"
"I've been using GraphCMS and loved the experience"
"I saw graphCMS and Strapj as well, anyone have anything to say about these two?"
#22
Craft
4.3
(4)
"[Craft CMS] is a great option. It can be run headless using GraphQL."
"I can recommend Craft CMS in headless mode."
"I’m working on a Craft site using the GraphQL API."
"Really needs to be headless from the beginning, not a bolt-on."
#23
CloudCannon
4.0
(4)
"Cloudcannon is the best."
"CloudCannon CMS is great option especially because it’s git based so you get really nice versioning."
"CloudCannon + stripe."
"Cloudcannon, it's git-based and there's a Sveltekit template, but it might be expensive for your needs"
#24
Webiny
5.0
(3)
"It's open source and self-hosted, but it's the architecture that's interesting: it's built entirely on serverless technology."
"It’s self hosted and open source."
"It's a serverless CMS, and open source."
#25
VaporCMS
4.3
(3)
"You can check out VaporCMS. Its a headless blog specific cms."
"You can check out VaporCMS, which includes an SDK and Next.js examples in their documentation for easier integration."
"Check VaporCMS if you need a blog specific CMS."
#26
PocketBase
4.3
(3)
"Https://pocketbase.io/ DB + CMS in one, plus it's incredibly simple and well documented."
"Let's check Supabase, Payload, Directus, PocketBase"
"I've been using PocketBase and really liking it."
#27
Drupal
4.0
(3)
"Drupal is really nice these days."
"You may check www.nodehiveapp.com. Built on top of Drupal."
"Headless drupal with drupal-next module"
#28
Contentrain
3.7
(3)
"I can recommend Contentrain."
"I created a website for my project and my experience was good with it."
"You can use Contentrain, you can do it what do you want in Contentrain with less payments than other options."
#29
Ikius
5.0
(2)
"They curated a pretty cool bunch of platforms and have some solid opinions."
"The agency I work with wrote a rundown with the best CMSs for Next."
#30
FireCMS
5.0
(2)
"FireCMS is a React and Firebase based CMS. I think it is exactly what you are looking for!"
"I believe it solves many of the pain points mentioned here."
#31
Squarespace
4.5
(2)
"Use Squarespace (or a similar SaaS but not WP). It's the best money she (and you) will ever spend."
"I'd argue the benefits of Headless are better suited for a much different context."
#32
Netlify
4.5
(2)
"Netlify + Netlify CMS."
"I'm suprised no one talked about netlify cms here"
#33
Tina
4.5
(2)
"I picked up Tina CMS recently. Loving it!"
"For basic stuffs I’m using Tina.io."
#34
easyweb.site
4.5
(2)
"Easyweb.site headless cms is free, try it and give us feedback :) we work closely to the developer"
"It has a good API feature and is quite easy to work with."
#35
Stubby CMS
4.0
(2)
"Its an extremely simple CMS with endless flexiblity."
"Is super simple and works with any framework, and free and open source"
#36
Netlify CMS
4.0
(2)
"NetlifyCMS (+ Netlify is just awesome)"
"I'm doing a Gatsby + Netlify CMS build right now, it's pretty awesome."
#37
Butter
4.0
(2)
"We provide a nice UI to manage your website marketing content and an associated API."
"There's no reason why you wouldn't be able to use a headless CMS like Butter."
#38
Shopify
4.0
(2)
"Shopify or WordPress, payload v3 as well, v2 not as eazy to setup"
"Shopify."
#39
Pruvious
4.0
(2)
"Check out Pruvious! Its will soon be hostable on nuxthub."
"Also +1 for pruvious. First project so far and it works great and the dev that made it is super responsive and supportive."
#40
DECAP
4.0
(2)
"Check DECAP CMS out. It's pretty lightweight and minimalist."
"I use decap most of the time."
#41
Decap CMS
4.0
(2)
"I like Decap CMS - markdown based."
"Decap cms is what you’re looking for."
#42
NetlifyCMS
3.0
(2)
"Doesn’t have a lot of features and probably shouldn’t be used in big or 'serious' projects."
"Is git based. not tried myself so far but I think that I can use it in future projects."
#43
qik.dev
5.0
(1)
"Checkout www.qik.dev. Based in Melbourne. I’m the founder, happy to sort something out pricewise that’s easily affordable."
#44
ContentStack
5.0
(1)
"For enterprise? ContentStack."
#45
11ty
5.0
(1)
"Nowadays, my goto is 11ty + Decap CMS (previously Netlify CMS), really recommend."
#46
Filament
5.0
(1)
"If you’re into laravel. Filament is insanely good and free."
#47
Framer
5.0
(1)
"I would say use framer for this tbh, their new website builder is amazing."
#48
Sonic.js
5.0
(1)
"It is 🔥🔥🔥 6 times faster 🔥🔥🔥 than a standard node application including Strapi."
#49
Pages CMS
5.0
(1)
"Is best so far, free, git based and complete free"
#50
Next-Craft
5.0
(1)
"[Next-Craft](https://github.com/izuolan/next-craft) is exactly what you’re looking for."
#51
SonicJs
5.0
(1)
"It is 🔥🔥🔥 6 times faster 🔥🔥🔥 than a standard node application including Strapi."
#52
DecapCMS
5.0
(1)
"DecapCMS is really wonderful."
#53
Keystatic
5.0
(1)
"I have been recently using Keystatic with Astro which is great."
#54
Spinacms
5.0
(1)
"I’ve heard great things about https://spinacms.com"
#55
Notion
5.0
(1)
"We use Notion. It is very easy to setup."
#56
Qik
5.0
(1)
"Https://www.qik.dev
It’s a headless API first platform."
#57
Lexas CMS
5.0
(1)
"We’ve solved all of the issues you’ve had with the platforms so far."
#58
ProcessWire
4.0
(1)
"If you're already used to processwire, why not stay with processwire?"
#59
TinaCMS
4.0
(1)
"TinaCMS. Uses git so you don't need to host anything."
#60
FrontMatter
4.0
(1)
"For an MVP or if I'd be the only user of it I'd probably pick FrontMatter."
#61
Shelf CMS
4.0
(1)
"Https://shelf-cms.io"
#62
Outstatic
4.0
(1)
"It's the simplest CMS out there."
#63
Vendure
4.0
(1)
"You might be interested to check out my project, Vendure. It's a headless graphql e-commerce framework written in TypeScript."
#64
wisp
4.0
(1)
"You might find wisp quite fitting for you. It's was built to allow writers to publish easily to existing Nuxt website."
#65
PayloadCMS
4.0
(1)
"PayloadCMS here"
#66
editable.website
4.0
(1)
"If you want to try something entirely new and different, checkout editable.website."
#67
Stubby
4.0
(1)
"It simple open-source and self-hostable."
#68
TinyCMS
4.0
(1)
"A super simple headless CMS for rails."
#69
Apito
4.0
(1)
"I have seen recently that apito.io added support for MySQL & PostgreSQL drivers."
#70
Silverstripe
4.0
(1)
"Silverstripe"
#71
Supabase
4.0
(1)
"Let's check Supabase, Payload, Directus, PocketBase"
#72
Gatsby
4.0
(1)
"If is a static website, consider switching to Gatsby with netlify."
#73
Plone
4.0
(1)
"Personally I like Plone for enterprise projects."
#74
NodeHive
4.0
(1)
"Check out NodeHive, The Headless CMS platform."
#75
Butter CMS
4.0
(1)
"We use Butter CMS, and it’s an absolute delight."
#76
SimplyBook
4.0
(1)
"Maybe bypass all the CMS ideas and go for ready made solutions like this: https://simplybook.me/en/."
#77
ApostropheCMS
4.0
(1)
"Apostrophe is an open-source CMS that is JavaScript all the way down."
#78
Wix
4.0
(1)
"Have you not considered Wix or Squarespace?"
#79
Flotiq
4.0
(1)
"Check out Flotiq.com."
#80
Wisp CMS
4.0
(1)
"Check out wisp cms if you are just looking for blog post and SEO"
#81
Magnolia CMS
4.0
(1)
"Can't say if something better exists, but at least you get a WYSIWYG page editor."
#82
CockpitCMS
4.0
(1)
"I use CockpitCMS and it works pretty well."
#83
Umbraco
4.0
(1)
"Umbraco is a great cms, got a rest api. 100% free and open source, its .net though."
#84
Caisy
4.0
(1)
"We just launched our Starter Template for creating a blog with Sveltekit and our headless CMS caisy."
#85
Oracle
4.0
(1)
"They have wonderful headless CMS but for a large scale projects"
#86
Medusa.js
4.0
(1)
"Did you look at medusajs?"
#87
KeystoneJS
4.0
(1)
"Throwing [KeystoneJS](https://keystonejs.com/) into the mix here."
#88
Decap
4.0
(1)
"Decap cms is pretty cool, it’s what i built my portfolio with"
#89
AdminJS
4.0
(1)
"How about https://adminjs.co/?"
#90
Astro
4.0
(1)
"Maybe look into https://astro.build/"
#91
Agility CMS
3.0
(1)
"Contentful and Agility in joint third."
#92
Kontent.ai
3.0
(1)
"I was using Kontent.ai as the headless CMS for over 3 years until they let me know they were going to cancel my starter plan."
#93
Apostrophe CMS
3.0
(1)
"I haven't used it, but Apostrophe CMS might be worth looking into."
#94
Kirby
3.0
(1)
"Https://getkirby.com"
#95
Sveltekit-blog-mdx
3.0
(1)
"If its just a blog, and your not talking 1000s of entries, I'd recommend using https://github.com/rodneylab/sveltekit-blog-mdx"
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