ButterCMS
Headless content management system for websites, ecommerce, and mobile apps.
ButterCMS is a hosted, API-first headless CMS that separates content management from content delivery. Marketers model and publish content through a visual editor, while developers deliver it to websites, ecommerce stores, and mobile apps through content APIs and SDKs, keeping content management and frontend development decoupled.
Core capabilities include content types, pages, collections, a blog engine, reusable components with drag-and-drop reordering, field validation, split-screen preview, scheduling, and revision history. It offers built-in SEO metadata, digital asset management, localization, multisite support, role-based workflows with approvals, and an AI Assistant powered by OpenAI available through the TinyMCE integration. Integrations cover Slack, DAM providers (Brandfolder, Bynder, Cloudinary), forms (Typeform, Jotform, Formstack), translation services (DeepL, Crowdin, Lokalise), A/B testing, and SSO providers (Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspace, Salesforce, and others). Starter projects are available for frameworks including React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, Django, Laravel, and more.
ButterCMS is built for both marketing and development teams working across websites, ecommerce, and mobile. It is packaged as a free plan and a trial, with paid plans priced by usage across API calls, bandwidth, pages, collections, and assets rather than by feature gates; every plan includes unlimited users and components.
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