Check this article to see how much you will pay for storage in a headless CMS.
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When you create your own website, you upload a lot of assets - images, documents, what have you. If you are using external software like a Headless CMS, there might be a point when you reach the storage limits of your account. Below you will find a comparison of popular headless CMS with their storage quotas (if provided by the CMS vendor), available plans, and the most important thing: cost.
Link: Flotiq
Flotiq has 4 available plans:
Users with Free accounts have
For Basic Plan ($49/mo) users have
When you decide to join Flotiq's Pro for $449/mo you will get:
Enterprise plans are priced individually and have no limits in storage.
Link: Contentful Website
Contentful plans are split into 3 parts:
For free account users, Contentful gives .75TB bandwidth with 50MB max asset size. You can have a maximum of 25k (content entries and assets). A space that has one entry and one image have two records. Each entry and asset is counted as a single record, regardless of how many times they are re-used within the space.
Team accounts with medium/large options have .75TB with possible overages. The maximum asset size is set to 1GB with a maximum of 25k (medium team)/50k (large team) records.
Enterprise accounts have 2TB with possible overages. The maximum asset size is also set to 1GB. Records maximum value is custom and depends on needs and requirements.
Link: DatoCMS Website
In DatoCMS user has 4 account type options:
File storage is set to 200MB for free users and 500GB for Professional and Scale plans. Bandwidth is set from 10GB/month for free users, 1TB for professionals, and 2TB for scale plan teams. Enterprise option, like in most Headless CMS depends on team needs and requirements.
DatoCMS provides a free "Developer" plan. Professional and Scale start at 199 euro/month and 299 euro/month, respectively.
Link: ButterCMS Website
ButterCMS does not provide information about available storage and asset sizes.
Link: Kentico Software Website
Kentico is a headless CMS geared mostly towards big projects. They have 3 plans:
Asset storage begins with 2GB for the Developer plan and ends with at least 200GB for Enterprise.
Kentico provides a free developer account. Paid plans start at $2,499 for a month, and the enterprise is priced individually.
Link: MagnoliaCMS Website
MagnoliaCMS does not provide information about available storage and asset sizes. You can download the community edition for free. Other options are available via the demo request form.
Link: Strapi Website
File Storage & Media library are included in Strapi core modules. Strapi is an open-source and self-hosted headless CMS, therefore any storage limits are set up by the instance owner.
Link: NetlifyCMS Website
NetlifyCMS is open-source headless CMS, therefore any storage limits are set up by the instance owner. You can deploy your instance on Netlify, but you must be aware then of their bandwidth limit:
Link: Forestry Website
Forestry provides 4 plans:
The user is responsible for selecting his own media storage (S3, Cloudinary, or other).
Forestry provides free accounts. Paid plans start at $29 per month and end with custom for enterprise solutions.
Link: SanityCMS Website
Sanity users can choose 1 from 4 plans:
Free users get 5GB of assets storage, which heavily increases for Business (500GB), and Enterprise(custom) plans.
Sanity provides free (standard plan) accounts. Team cost starts from $99 a month, and Business from $949. The enterprise tier depends on needs and requirements.
Link: Prismic Website
Unlike other HeadlessCMS players, Prismic provides many plans for users:
Developers group:
Organization group:
Enterprise plan - depends on needs and requirements
There is relevant information about storage and asset limit. As there is in their pricing table - assets are unlimited, whatever that "unlimited" means.
According to this article, the maximum image size is 10MB, and any other filetype - 100MB.
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