Content as a service
Services
Content as a service
- Contentful
- Dummy Image
- FakeJSON
- Image Charts
- Localizely
- PersianJSONPlaceholder
- prismic.io
- Sanity
- Storyblok
- Supportivekoala
Contentful
- Free tier: access to 4 content APIs (management, delivery, preview, images) up to 10,000 records, 50,000 API calls, 3 users, 3 user roles (admin, developer, editor)
- Pros: access to modern web app for content modeling and management, webhooks for integrating with other apps
- Limitations: no content localization, community support
- Exceeding the free tier: upon approach of a quota, Contentful will ask for a credit card in order to charge for over-limit usage
Dummy Image
- Free tier: Completely free to use
- Pros: Dynamically generate a dummy image at any size, color, and with custom text
FakeJSON
- Free tier: Completely free to use
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Pros: Most of field types available in free tier. Can be used with JS
library. - Limitations: Limited number of daily requests
Image Charts
- Free tier: unlimited image charts generation but with a watermark
- Pros: drop-in replacement for Google Image Charts, gif animation support
Localizely
- Free tier: 250 string keys, 1 project, unlimited languages and users.
- Pros: Easy to use. Over-the-air translation updates. Completely free for Open Source projects without limitations.
PersianJSONPlaceholder
- Free tier: Completely free to use
prismic.io
- Free tier: Unlimited records (types include text, images, geo, and more), Unlimited API calls, 1 user
- Pros: Node.js, PHP, Java, and Ruby SDKs and REST API access. Custom record types, advanced query capabilities, free multi user plan for Open Source/Open Content projects.
- Limitations: no built-in localization support, custom types have no versioning support
Sanity
- Free tier: 3 users, 10K documents, 500K API CDN requests, 100K API requests, 2 datasets (can be made private), image pipeline / asset CDN, 100 realtime concurrent database connections, support for GraphQL (beta)
- Pros: Good documentation, Studio (editor / content manager) is easily customisable, great community support in slack channel, powerful query language (GROQ), GraphQL support, webhooks
- Exceeding the free tier: Payment details need to be added for overages or requests will be blocked
Storyblok
- Free tier: Unlimited content entries, unlimited components
- Pros: Internationalization. Image and video asset support. Visual editor for editing a live site. Js/Node/Ruby/PHP SDKs. Headless CMS.
- Limitations: 1 user. Max 50mb video size. No version history. No webhooks.
- Exceeding the free tier: Will reach out if they think there you’re using it in an abusive way.
Supportivekoala
- Free tier: Allows you to autogenerate images by your input via templates. Free plan allows you to create up to 100 images per week
- Pros: You can generate images by API or on zapier from a big library of templates that looks like canva.com