GraphCMS Vs. Contentful

API and Core Features

	GraphCMS	Contentful
Cloud Hosted (SaaS)	✓	✓
Custom Regions	✓	✓
Frontend Agnostic	✓	✓
GraphQL Content API	✓	✓
GraphQL Management API	✓	✗
GraphQL Mutations	✓	✗
GraphQL Native	✓	✗
Image Delivery and Transformation API	✓	✓
Migration Tools	✓	✓
On premises hosting / Self	✗	✗
Open Source	✗	✗
Permanent Auth Tokens	✓	✓
Public APIs	✓	✗
Shared Regions	4	1

Learn more about GraphCMS's core features.

Content Modelling

	GraphCMS	Contentful
API Playground	✓	On Enterprise projects
Conditional Fields	✗	✓
Enumerations	✓	✗
Filters	✓	✓
Flexible Content Modelling	✓	✓
Localisation (i18n)	✓	✓
Nested Fields	✗	✗
Required Fields	✓	✓
Saved Queries	✓	✗
Searchable Content	✓	✓
Sortable Relations	✓	✓
Sorting	✓	✓
Unique Fields	✓	✓
Validations	✓	✓
Versioning	✓	✓

Editorial Features and Content Management

	GraphCMS	Contentful
Batch Overwrites	✓	✓
Content Type: Asset Picker	✓	✓
Content Type: Booleans (Checkbox)	✓	✓
Content Type: Color	✓	✓
Content Type: Date and Time	✓	✓
Content Type: Enumeration (Dropdown)	✓	✓
Content Type: Float (Decimals)	✓	✓
Content Type: Integers (Numbers)	✓	✓
Content Type: JSON Editor	✓	✓
Content Type: Map	✓	✓
Content Type: Markdown	✓	✓
Content Type: Multi-Line Text	✓	✓
Content Type: References	✓	✓
Content Type: Rich Text Editor (WYSIWYG)	✓	✓
Content Type: Single Line Text	✓	✓
Custom Metadata	✓	✓
Custom Roles	✓	✓
Custom Workflows	✗	✓
Global Content CDN	✓	✓
GraphQL Unions (Polymorphic Relations)	✓	✓
Image Editor	✓	✓
Multiple Environments	✓	✓
Project Cloning	✓	✓
Rich Editing Interface	✓	✓
SEO Friendly	✓	✓
Static Site Generator Friendly	✓	✓
Webhooks	✓	✓

Explore all of GraphCMS's capabilities on our features page and docs.

Digital Asset Management

	GraphCMS	Contentful
Asset Transformations	✓	✓
Assets from Facebook	✓	✗
Assets from Google Drive	✓	✗
Assets from Instagram	✓	✗
Assets from Search	✓	✗
Assets from System	✓	✓
Assets from URL	✓	✓
Digital Asset Management (DAM)	✓	✓
Global Asset CDN	✓	✗
SEO Optimized Asset Management	✓	✓

Community and Resources

	GraphCMS	Contentful
Examples : Blog	✓	✓
Examples : Gatsby	✓	✓
Examples : Gridsome	✓	✓
Examples : NextJS	✓	✓
Examples : NuxtJS	✓	✓
Examples : ReactJS	✓	✓
Examples : Sapper	✓	✗
Examples : Svelte	✓	✗
Examples : Union Types	✓	✗
Examples : VueJS	✓	✓
Reference App : eCommerce	✓	✓
Reference App : Events and Conferences	✓	✗
Reference App : Marketing Website	✓	✗
Reference App : Podcasts	✓	✗
Reference App : Travel & Hospitality	✓	✗

Explore more references on our GitHub profile, or view examples created with GraphCMS and popular frameworks like Gatsby, NextJS, Svelte, Gridsome, and Vue, amongst others.

Plans and Pricing

	GraphCMS	Contentful
Additional API Operations	1,000,000/month 10c/10,000 On top	Extra API calls cost $5 per 1,000,000 calls
Additional Asset Traffic	500GB/month 10c/1GB On top	Extra asset bandwidth $65 per 1 TB.
Content Entries	10,000 - Unlimited	5,000-unlimited
Custom Pricing	✓	✗
Enterprise Plans	✓	✓
Free forever community plan	✓	✓
Free trial for Premium features	✓	✗
Monthly and Annual Plans	✓	✓
Plans in EUR	✓	✗
Plans in USD	✓	✓
Pricing By	Project	Project
Self Service Plans	✓	✓

Get started with a free forever developer plan or explore our other pricing options to accommodate your scaling needs.

Security, Compliance, and Support

	GraphCMS	Contentful
24/7 Infrastructure Monitoring	✓	✓
Advanced Firewall Rules	✓	✓
Audit Logs	✓	✓
Authentication	✓	✓
Backups	✓	✓
Choice of data center	✓	✓
Community Support	✓	✓
Customer Success	✓	✓
Dedicated Infrastructure	✓	✓
Email Support	✓	✓
Encryption at rest	✓	✓
Encryption in transit	✓	✓
GDPR Compliant Infrastructure	✓	✓
Hosted in Europe	✓	✗
Implementation Partner Network	✓	✓
Login with Github	✓	✓
Login with Socials	✓	✓
Onboarding and Architecture Support	✓	✓
Onsite Chat	✓	✗
Project Backups	✓	✓
Public Slack Channel	✓	✓
SLA Performance	✓	✓
SLA Support	✓	✓
Solution Architects	✓	✓
SSO Support	✓	✓
User Management	✓	✓

Note: We constantly monitor and update the information here as and when we're aware of any changes. For any inconsistencies or inaccuracies please get in touch to update the comparisons.