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  "name": "Contentful",
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    "notes": "Prices displayed in EUR. Premium pricing is custom and includes multiple Space types (Standard, Enterprise, Templated) with different quota levels. Personalization add-on plans (Start, Core, Scale) are available on Premium with AI Suggestions and monthly active profiles. Studio (visual editor) is an additional yearly subscription on Premium plans.",
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        "name": "Free",
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          "1 Starter Space",
          "10 users",
          "2 roles (Admin, Editor)",
          "2 locales",
          "25 content types",
          "2 environments",
          "10,000 records",
          "100K API calls/month",
          "50 GB CDN bandwidth/month",
          "50 MB max asset upload size",
          "Community support"
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          "1 Starter Space + option to purchase 1 Lite Space",
          "20 users",
          "3 roles",
          "3 locales",
          "1M API calls/month",
          "100 GB CDN bandwidth/month",
          "50 MB max asset upload size",
          "Comments and task management",
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        "description": "For small teams building content-driven sites"
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          "Custom roles",
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          "Unlimited API calls/month",
          "Custom CDN bandwidth",
          "Up to 99.99% uptime SLA",
          "24/7 customer support",
          "Dedicated Customer Success Manager",
          "Professional Services access",
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          "AI Actions (pay-as-you-go)",
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  "verdict": "Contentful is the market-leading headless CMS, and its pricing reflects that position. The Free tier is genuinely useful for learning and prototyping, 10,000 records, 100K API calls, and 10 users is enough to build a real proof of concept. There is no mid-tier option between free and €300/month, which forces growing startups into an awkward decision. The real hidden expense is not the platform fee but the developer time: Contentful is API-first with no built-in frontend, so you are paying for a CMS plus a full frontend build. For content teams used to WordPress, the total cost of ownership is 3-5x higher when you factor in development.",
  "bestFor": "Enterprise teams managing content across multiple brands, regions, and channels that need a structured, API-first CMS with governance controls | Development teams building headless architectures (Next.js, Gatsby, Nuxt) that want a mature content API with strong SDKs and 300+ integrations | Organizations with 10+ locales and multi-market content operations that need robust localization workflows | Companies already invested in the composable/MACH architecture stack (Contentful + Commercetools + Algolia + frontend framework)",
  "hiddenCosts": [
    "The Free-to-Lite jump is €0 to €300/month with no intermediate tier. Many startups outgrow Free (25 content types, 2 locales, 2 environments) within months but struggle to justify €3,600/year for a CMS alone.",
    "No built-in frontend: Contentful delivers content via API only.",
    "Environments are limited: Free gets 2, Lite gets a few more, and Premium is custom. Each environment is a full copy of your content model, staging/preview workflows require paid environments.",
    "Locales are aggressively gated: Free gets 2, Lite gets 3. International sites needing 10+ languages must go Premium. There is no way to purchase additional locales on Free or Lite.",
    "Content types cap at 25 on Free. Complex content models (blog + landing pages + product pages + FAQs + team bios) can hit this limit quickly.",
    "Bandwidth overages: Free caps at 50 GB/month CDN bandwidth with no overages (hard limit). A viral blog post or media-heavy site can hit this surprisingly fast."
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      "date": "2026-10-31",
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          "price": "Contact us"
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  "correction": "This price may be out of date. If the vendor's page differs, call report_issue with evidence_url and quote, or verify_price.",
  "provenance": {
    "lastVerifiedAt": "2026-10-02",
    "sourceUrl": "https://contentful.com/pricing",
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  "citation": "Toolradar, verified 2026-10-02, https://toolradar.com/tools/contentful/pricing",
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