Headless CMS

Contentful

Content: Structured content types and linked entries.

CategoryHeadless CMS
Best suited to

Custom frontends and multi-channel content.

Pricing & plansFree plan available

Key facts

ContentStructured content types and linked entries
WorkflowSandbox environments isolate content changes
LanguagesLocales for entries, assets and fields
Best suited toCustom frontends and multi-channel content.
Before you commitA headless setup requires a separate frontend to present the content.
Pricing & plansFree plan available Official website ↗
Sourcewww.contentful.com ↗
www.contentful.com ↗

A closer look

Contentful — Official website

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Watch it in action

Contentful Platform: Overview + Demo · Contentful

Pricing & plans

Free plan available

LiteUSD 300 / month

Free plan with usage limits; paid tiers are separate.

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Usage by country

CountryLive websites
🇺🇸 United States22,166
🇩🇪 Germany1,929
🇬🇧 United Kingdom1,915
🇨🇦 Canada1,279
🇦🇺 Australia944
🇳🇱 Netherlands819
🇫🇷 France785
🇯🇵 Japan715
🇸🇪 Sweden584
🇮🇳 India546

Live websites detected by BuiltWith. Leading countries; partial coverage. · Source ↗

Company

Company nameContentful Inc.
CountryUnited States
FoundersSascha Konietzke, Paolo Negri
Valuation>USD 3 billion 2021-07-28 ↗
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Timeline 7

  1. Funding

    Contentful raised $80 million in Series E funding to expand its API-based content platform for enterprise digital experiences.

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  2. Funding

    Contentful raised $175 million in a Tiger Global-led Series F, reaching a reported valuation above $3 billion.

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  3. Launch

    Contentful Studio became generally available, letting marketers and designers visually assemble digital experiences using existing content and components.

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  4. Acquisition

    Contentful signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ninetailed, adding a planned personalization and experimentation layer to its content platform.

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  5. Product update

    Contentful expanded AI-assisted content workflows and personalization capabilities as its platform moved beyond core headless content management.

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  6. Acquisition

    Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire Contentful, proposing a native content layer for its Headless 360 offering.

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  7. Acquisition

    Salesforce completed its Contentful acquisition, as confirmed by the editor’s update added to the original acquisition announcement.

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Known incidents

Contentful documentation outage

Contentful status recorded an outage of its developer-documentation website at 18:22 UTC and marked it resolved at 18:27 UTC. The notice concerned documentation, not all content-delivery services or customer-data security.

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