Score breakdown
What makes up this score
- 1 independent review sources
- 6 third-party reviews counted
- 1 answer engines measured
- cross-model consistency 1
- 1 web authority signals
- average citing-domain authority 35
- 100% of the category rubric covered
- No approved user reviews yet
Explanation
Why Cosmic ranks #8
Cosmic ranks #8 of 11 headless cms with a TOP SCORE of 40.
The category leader scores 63, a gap of 23 points.
That is 7 points below the category average of 47.
Its strongest component is External Reputation at 70; its weakest is Web Authority at 9.
No usable evidence was found for TOP10 User Score, so that weight was redistributed across the components that are evidenced.
Generated from the recorded evidence behind this score, not from editorial opinion. How scoring works.
Score history
How the score has moved
48 → 40 ↓7.7
External reputation
What third-party sources publish
| Source | Published | Normalised | Reviews | Last checked | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G2 ↗ | 4.3/5 | 86 | 6 | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
AI visibility
How answer engines treat this platform
| Engine | Mention | Recommendation | Citation | Avg position | Queries | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude sonnet 5 grounded | 0% | 0% | 88% | — | 8 | 1 Sept 2026 |
Web authority
Citations and independent coverage
- G231 Aug 2026
TOP10 users
What our users report
No published reviews yet. Reviews are moderated before they appear and are never removed at a business's request.
Company information
The facts on file
- Description
- Cosmic is a proprietary SaaS headless CMS that pairs a content dashboard with a REST API and TypeScript SDK, organised around Projects, Buckets, Object types and Objects. Its 2026 positioning is AI-native, adding agents that generate content, write code and open GitHub PRs, plus workflows, an AI CLI and a hosted MCP server. It targets developer-led teams building Next.js, React, Astro, Remix, Nuxt or Svelte front ends who want zero infrastructure to run.
- Category
- Headless CMS
- Products
- Cosmic headless CMS (web dashboard), REST API + TypeScript SDK (createBucketClient), AI Agents, AI Workflows, Cosmic CLI, MCP server (mcp.cosmicjs.com, 18 tools), Cosmic Insights (cookieless analytics), Media library with imgix CDN
- Markets
- SMB, Agencies, Enterprise, Indie developers
- Integrations
- Next.js, React, Astro, Remix, Nuxt, Svelte, GitHub, Vercel, Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, imgix, Cursor, Claude Code
- 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 pricing page ↗
- Regulatory
- Verified: 256-bit SSL in transit and at rest, 2FA, audit logs, role-based access control, API key management; public status page at cosmicstatus.com; published Terms, Privacy and Cookie policies. A 99.9% uptime SLA is claimed on the features page but the pricing table shows a contractual SLA only on Enterprise (99.95%/Custom), where SSO also lives. NOT verified in this session: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR DPA terms, HIPAA, data residency — confirm directly with the vendor before any compliance-sensitive purchase. Proprietary SaaS, not open source; self-hosting is unverified.
- Official website
- https://www.cosmicjs.com ↗
- Last verified
- 31 Aug 2026
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Category context
- This platform40
- Category leader63
- Category average47
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