Intro
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.
Comparision
1.Contentful
Link: Contentful Website
Description
Contentful plans are split into 3 parts:
- Community
- Team (Medium/Large)
- Enterprise
For free account users, Contentful gives 750GB bandwidth with 50MB max asset size. You can have maximum of 25000 records (content entries and assets).
Team accounts with medium/large options have 750GB with possible overages. Maximum asset size is set to 1GB with maximum of 25000(medium team)/50000(large team) records.
Enterprise accounts have 2TB with possible overages. Maximum asset size is also set to 1GB. Records maximum value is custom and depends on needs and requirements.
Cost
Contentful charges for Team Accounts, they have 2 plans:
- 489$/month for Medium Teams
- 879$/month for Large Teams
2. DatoCMS
Link: DatoCMS Website
Description
In DatoCMS user has 4 account type options:
- Developer
- Professional
- Scale
- Enterprise
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 to 2TB for scale plan teams. Enterprise option, like in most Headless CMS depends on team needs and requirements.
Cost
DatoCMS provides free "Developer" plan. Professional and Scale starts at 199 euro/month and 399 euro/month, respectively.
3. Butter CMS
Link: ButterCMS Website
ButterCMS does not provide information about available storage and asset sizes.
4. Kentico
Link: Kentico Software Website
Description
Kentico is a headless CMS geared mostly towards big projects. They have 3 plans:
- Business
- Premium
- Enterprise
Asset storage begins with 50GB for the Business plan and ends with at least 150GB for Enterprise.
Cost
Kentico provide free developer account. Paid plans starts at $999 for a month, and premium for $1,999. Enterprise is priced individually.
5. Magnolia
Link: MagnoliaCMS Website
MagnoliaCMS does not provide information about available storage and asset sizes. You can download community edition for free. Other options are available via demo request form.
6. Strapi
Link: Strapi Website
File Storage & Media library are included in Strapi core modules. Strapi is open-source and self-hosted headless CMS, therefore any storage limits are set up by instance owner.
7. NetlifyCMS
Link: NetlifyCMS Website
NetlifyCMS is open-source headless CMS, therefore any storage limits are set up by instance owner. You can deploy your instance on Netlify, but you must be aware then of their bandwith limit:
- 100GB/month for Free accounts
- 400GB/month for Pro accounts
- 600GB/month for Business accounts
8. Forestry
Link: Forestry Website
Description
Forestry provides 4 plans:
- Personal
- Starter
- Pro
- Enterprise
User is responsible for selecting his own media storage (S3, Cloudinary or other).
Cost
Forestry provides free account. Paid plans starts at $29 per month and ends with custom for enterprise solutions.
9. Sanity
Link: SanityCMS Website
Description
Sanity users can choose 1 from 3 plans:
- Standard
- Advanced
- Enterprise
Free users get 5GB assets storage, which heavily increases for Advanced(200GB), and Enterprise(1TB) plans.
Cost
Sanity provides free(standard plan) accounts. Advanced cost starts from $199 a month, and Enterprise depends on needs and requirements.
10. Prismic
Link: Prismic Website
Description & Cost
Unlike other HeadlessCMS players, Prismic provides many plans for users:
Developers group:
- Community (free)
- Starter ($7/month)
- Small ($15/month)
Organization group:
- Medium ($100/month)
- Platinum (500$/month)
- Enterprise(custom)
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.