Contentful

What it is for

Contentful is a hosted entry-editor desk: you open an entry, and the Platform Free tile is $0 / forever. Use it when the job is fields you publish at $0, not when you need a $20 chat seat.

What makes it unique: the cover is the official Contentful Entry editor (Product comparison (Pricing page), Headline Credit Card Just Got Upgraded, Products Coin Classic Published, Status Published) from the help still — not Contentful’s own pricing page. The fields themselves are ops of the Entry editor. Contentful bills $0 or a Lite Space, not a chat seat.

Key features

• Entry editor — fields / status / preview on one entry (cover still; docs). One desk. Cover Credit Card Just Got Upgraded and Coin Classic sit here.
• Content list — entries you search and filter (docs). A list, not an editor. Status / Content Type columns sit here.
• Content model — a content type you define (docs). A type, not an entry. Fields sit here.
• Media — an asset you upload (docs). An asset, not a type. Crop sits here.
• Preview — a live / preview URL you open (docs). Preview, not Media. Open Live Preview sits here.

The Editor / References / Taxonomy / Tags tabs on the cover are the same entry pipeline (not a sixth desk). Free / Lite Space tiles are the meter. AI Actions are a composer, not a desk we fold into the Entry editor.

Who it's for

Best fit: editorial / front-end teams who will stay on Platform Free at $0 forever (10 users, 2 roles, 2 locales, 100K API calls, 50 GB CDN, 1 Starter Space) while they open a first Entry editor, then buy a Lite Space at $850 / month when they need 50 content types / 50,000 records.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from contentful.com/pricing. FAQ copy prints Free $0 / forever and a Lite Space at $850 / month. Lite and Enterprise Platform tiles are custom on the page we fetched.

• Platform Free — $0 / forever. 10 users. 2 roles. 2 locales. 100K API calls / month (hard cap, no overages). 50 GB CDN / month. 1 Starter Space (25 content types, 2 environments, 10,000 records).
• Lite Space (add-on) — $850 / month on the FAQ we fetched. 50 content types. 4 environments. 50,000 records. +2M API calls and +750 GB bandwidth per month.
• Lite / Enterprise Platform — custom (users, roles, locales, SLA). Contact.
• Overage on paid plans — $5 per extra 1M API calls / month; $0.15 per extra GB of asset bandwidth.

Confirm checkout; taxes follow your location. Free stays inside the hard caps.

Limitations / costs

• Free is hard-capped. Crossing 100K API or 50 GB CDN does not add overage — it stops.
• $850 is a Space add-on, not the Lite Platform seat, on the FAQ we fetched.
• An entry-editor desk, not a Sanity Studio. For Sanity see Sanity. For Strapi see Strapi.

Alternatives

• Sanity — Studio desk when you want Sanity’s GROQ editor, not Contentful’s $0 / $850 Entry editor.
• Strapi — open-source admin when you want Strapi’s self-host, not Contentful’s Coin Classic row.
• Payload — code-first CMS when you want Payload’s collections, not Contentful’s Published sidebar.

Official tutorial

Official Contentful channel video: How to extend Contentful's interface with custom fields (oEmbed author: Contentful). First-party web-app field walkthrough; the Entry editor still is the cover. App Framework on the video is a second desk, not generate-on-editor.

Written path: contentful.com/pricing plus the Entry editor still.

Website

https://www.contentful.com

Repository

https://github.com/contentful

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is the official Contentful Entry editor still from the help CDN. Dollars checked on contentful.com/pricing (Free $0 forever; Lite Space $850/mo; API overage $5/1M; bandwidth $0.15/GB). Tutorial oEmbed author: Contentful.

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.