Head to head
Cosmic vs Strapi
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
40/100 | 59/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #8 | #2 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 70 | 77 |
| AI Authority | 21 | 58 |
| Web Authority | 9 | 29 |
| Expert Assessment | 56 | 64 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | $49/month (Builder) · free tier: Free $0/month, permanent, no credit card: 1 Project, 1 Bucket, 2 team members, 50 object types, 1,000 Objects, 300k in/300k out AI tokens, 1 Agent + 1 Workflow, 10k non-cached + 100k cached API requests, 1GB storage, community (Discord) support | CMS Growth $45/month (3 seats included, +$15/month/seat); Cloud Starter $35/project/month · free tier: Community edition free forever under MIT licence: RBAC, REST & GraphQL API, unlimited entries and API calls, unlimited content-types/locales/roles/components, community support; 30-day free trial of Growth features on self-hosted projects, no credit card required |
| Pricing model | Subscription with credit/usage-based add-ons | Freemium + Subscription (self-hosted licence ladder and per-project managed hosting, with published usage overages) |
| Best for | Small-to-mid developer-led product or marketing teams on Next.js/React that want a zero-ops hosted CMS with AI agents doing content and code work, and agencies running a handful of client sites who can absorb the $199 add-on bundle in a retainer. | Engineering-led teams with Node.js/JavaScript competence that need a customizable multi-channel content API, want self-hosting or data residency, and can absorb major-version migration work — agencies and product teams especially, given the free tier plus $35–$90/month hosting. |
| Avoid if | You need revision history, backups, webhooks or localisation included rather than as $199/mo extras; you are bootstrapped and will outgrow the $49 tier; you are an image- or video-heavy publisher; you need large uncached API volume, self-hosting or data residency; or your procurement requires compliance certifications and a defensible reference base. | You are a marketing-led or non-technical team with no dedicated developer, need visual page composition or a site builder, require a guaranteed uptime SLA on a small budget, need native rate-limiting/API analytics out of the box, or cannot budget engineering time for breaking major-version migrations. |
| Markets | SMB, Agencies, Enterprise, Indie developers | SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise, Agencies, Freelancers, Developers |
| Founded | — | — |
| Headquarters | — | — |
A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.