Verified detail: Managed headless CMS for content teams.

CategoryHeadless CMS
Best suited to

Custom frontends and multi-channel content.

Pricing & plansFree plan available

Key facts

Verified detailManaged headless CMS for content teams
Best suited toCustom frontends and multi-channel content.
Before you commitBefore choosing: which API, asset and editor limits apply to your project?
Pricing & plansFree plan available Official website ↗
Sourcewww.cosmicjs.com ↗

A closer look

Cosmic JS — Official website

Oct 21, 2026

Watch it in action

Getting Started with Cosmic CMS and Next.js (Part 1) · Cosmic

Pricing & plans

Free plan available

BuilderUSD 99 / month
TeamUSD 299 / month
BusinessUSD 499 / month

Free plan with usage limits; paid tiers are separate.

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Usage by country

CountryLive websites
🇺🇸 United States218
🇧🇷 Brazil49
🇬🇧 United Kingdom13
🇩🇪 Germany10
🇨🇦 Canada9
🇫🇷 France9
🇮🇳 India9
🇳🇱 Netherlands7
🇬🇦 Gabon5
🇦🇺 Australia4

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

Company

Company nameCosmic JS Inc.
CountryUnited States
FoundersTony Spiro, Carson Gibbons
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Timeline 5

  1. Launch

    Cosmic JS opened its public beta for managing content through APIs.

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  2. Product update

    Cosmic API v3 / dashboard beta introduced a rebuilt dashboard and API v3 with stricter content models and migration requirements.

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  3. Governance

    Cosmic announced December 21 retirement of its legacy dashboard and older REST/GraphQL APIs, requiring migration to newer services.

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  4. Product update

    Cosmic released open-source Blocks: reusable Next.js and React Server Components connected to CMS content, draft previews and localization.

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  5. Product update

    Cosmic Pages enabled one-click publishing of content objects to hosted public URLs, allowing review without a custom frontend or CMS login.

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