DatoCMS review

DatoCMS ranks seventh as a well-rounded hosted CMS for teams that work mainly in GraphQL. Its documented features include a GraphQL Content Delivery API, a Real-time API, Images and Video APIs, a structured text editor, dynamic layouts, visual editing and cache tags for fine-grained invalidation, plus plugins and AI and automation tools. The free plan is free forever with 2 editors, 300 records, 10GB of traffic and 100k API calls a month, and allows up to 3 projects, but there are no overages: when you reach a limit, the service stops responding as expected. The Professional plan raises the limits to 10 collaborators, 100k records and 1TB of monthly bandwidth, with add-ons for extra projects, environments, locales and records. From our location the pricing page showed euro prices only, so we have marked the USD price as pending. The 300-record free cap is tight for anything beyond a small site.

Who it is for

Agencies and teams that want a polished GraphQL CMS with images and video handled for them.

Price

See vendor pricing (USD check pending).

US price check pending. See the vendor pricing page.

Key features

• GraphQL Content Delivery API and a Real-time API
• Images API and Video API
• Structured text editor and dynamic layouts
• Visual Editing and cache tags for fine-grained invalidation
• Plugins and AI and automation features

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Free plan with no credit card required
• Strength: Images and video are processed by built-in APIs
• Strength: Cache tags help keep statically built sites fresh
• Weakness: Free plan caps records at 300 and stops at its limits
• Weakness: Prices are shown in euros from our location
• Weakness: Extra projects, locales and collaborators are paid add-ons

Key facts

• Free plan: Yes, 2 editors, 300 records, 100k API calls a month
• Free plan projects: Up to 3
• Professional records: 100k

Where it ranks

DatoCMS is No. 7 in our Best Headless CMS verdict.