Strapi
🇫🇷 FR · from $35/mo
4.5/5· 274 reviews across 3 portals
Open-source headless CMS with REST & GraphQL APIs, self-hosted or EU-hosted cloud.
Replaces
Strapi is sought as a European alternative to:
SquarespaceFeatures
Content Management
- Intuitive, minimal editor for dynamic content blocks
- 100% open-source and fully extensible
- Supports multi-language content structures
API Creation
- GraphQL and RESTful API support for any client (React, Vue, Angular, mobile, IoT)
- Auto-generated API documentation with one-click integration
- Webhooks for custom functionality
- Role-based authentication and permissions for API endpoints
Customization
- Multi-database support (SQLite, MySQL, Postgres, MariaDB)
- 100% JavaScript-based, front to back
Hosting & Performance
- Built-in email provider
- Global CDN for fast content delivery
- Custom domains support
- DDoS protection and observability tools
Security & Compliance
- API tokens for secure end-user access management
- GDPR and SOC 2 compliant
- Rate-limiting under Fair Use Policy
Pricing
- 100,000 API requests
- 50 GB asset storage
- 50 GB asset bandwidth
- Unlimited database entries
- 1,000,000 API requests
- 250 GB asset storage
- 500 GB asset bandwidth
- Unlimited database entries
- 10,000,000 API requests
- 1,000 GB asset storage
- 1,000 GB asset bandwidth
- Unlimited database entries
Additional environments, API requests, storage, and bandwidth available at extra cost. Yearly billing offers a 20% discount.
EU Trust Profile
What we verified against public sources, last checked 2026-08-05. Every point links to its evidence.
- Evidence →Trust center / security page
Strapi provides a dedicated trust center with security and compliance information.
- Evidence →SOC 2
Strapi has achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification.
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Reviews
Recurring themes, synthesized from public reviews across portals.
What users value
- Intuitive admin interface with a clean design, enabling both technical and non-technical users to manage content efficiently
- Flexible API-first approach supporting REST and GraphQL, with full customization of content types, permissions, and business logic
- Open-source and cost-effective, eliminating licensing fees for startups and enterprises
- Self-hosted option provides full control over data, infrastructure, and deployment
- Scalable and performant for large projects when properly optimized, avoiding bloat common in traditional CMS platforms
- Built-in media library for managing images, videos, documents, and audio with sorting, filtering, and search capabilities
- Granular CRUD permissions and custom role creation for precise access control
- Internationalization (i18n) support for multilingual content management
Where users see room to improve
- · Steep learning curve for advanced customizations, particularly when extending core functionality or modifying the admin panel
- · Major version upgrades may introduce breaking changes, requiring additional effort for plugins or custom code
- · Performance can degrade in very large projects without proper optimization
Ratings across portals
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Integrations
Feature, pricing and integration details are based on web research (as of 2026-08-05), without guarantee, errors are possible. The vendor's website prevails.