Verified detail: Headless content management for digital teams.

CategoryHeadless CMS
Best suited to

Custom frontends and multi-channel content.

Pricing & plansFrom EUR 149 / month · billed annually

Key facts

Verified detailHeadless content management for digital teams
Best suited toCustom frontends and multi-channel content.
Before you commitBefore choosing: which API, asset and editor limits apply to your project?
Pricing & plansFrom EUR 149 / month · billed annually Official website ↗
Sourcewww.datocms.com ↗

A closer look

DatoCMS — Official website

Oct 21, 2026

Watch it in action

Chapter 1 - Intro to DatoCMS - Intro to this Series · DatoCMS

Pricing & plans

From EUR 149 / month · billed annually

ProfessionalEUR 149 / month · billed annually
ProfessionalEUR 199 / month
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Usage by country

CountryLive websites
🇺🇸 United States2,976
🇬🇧 United Kingdom488
🇦🇺 Australia365
🇮🇹 Italy336
🇳🇱 Netherlands313
🇨🇦 Canada258
🇨🇭 Switzerland239
🇫🇷 France226
🇸🇪 Sweden206
🇩🇪 Germany195

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

Company

Company nameDatoCMS
CountryItaly
Company ↗

Timeline 5

  1. Launch

    DatoCMS began as an internal tool at an Italian web agency, shaping its early focus on practical website delivery needs.

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  2. Governance

    DatoCMS became an independent, profitable company with a dedicated team, separating the CMS business from its original agency setting.

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  3. Product update

    DatoCMS introduced sandbox environments and migration scripts, letting developers change content models separately without interrupting the editors working on published projects.

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  4. Product update

    DatoCMS launched Structured Text, combining a rich-text editor with linked records, embedded blocks and semantic JSON rather than raw HTML.

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  5. Product update

    DatoCMS introduced Visual Editing on every plan, letting editors click website content to open its corresponding fields and preview changes.

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The reality check

Before you commit

Before choosing: which API, asset and editor limits apply to your project?

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