DatoCMS vs Payload CMS Comparison

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DatoCMS

Headless CMS Software

4.9 31 user ratings

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Payload CMS

Headless CMS Software

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Overview

Description	DatoCMS is website builder tool that enables users to manage content efficiently using its headless CMS protocol. With its GraphQL, users can feed content into their web portal seamlessly. It has a Visual Model Builder tool that helps to create a number of items, like pages, case studies, and products, by simple drag-and-drop actions. Adding rich filled texts, geopoints, images, slug, SEO or social sharing options, etc., is also quite easy with DatoCMS. The app offers a customized authoring experience to marketers and editors. With its dynamic layouts, authors can have the freedom to create structured and efficient content and compose engaging visual stories. It helps users to build an efficient workflow for publishing teams to track their performances within the administrative area of the app. DatoCMS has multi-lingual support that offers complete localization support, including content and other assets like images, geopoints and URLs can be localized. Its inbuilt plugins allow developers to customize or replace default fields, within other HTML5 or custom applications. Read more	Payload CMS is an appropriate Node & React headless CMS and application framework that can be used by professionals and businesses to manage their content over the internet. This application framework is inclusive of Node.js, MongoDB and React. It gives full control to users to manage their Express app. All they need to do is initialize Payload and pass it to the Express app. The solution also helps them to maintain their own functionality outside the Payload. With Payload CMS, businesses can customize the output, filter the incoming data and integrate it with third-party platforms. Admins can secure their business data by incorporating the access control functions that are based on either a document or field level. In this application framework, all admin fields can be switched on or off according to the defined function. Payload CMS offers the freedom to swap every high-level component present in the Admin dashboard with users’ own React component. They can customize existing field types, views and even add their own routes. Read more
Pricing Options	Free Trial Available Offers Free-forever and Custom plan.	Free Trial Not Available Starts at $35.0. Offers Free-forever and Custom plan.
SW Score & Breakdown	85% SW Score The SW Score ranks the products within a particular category on a variety of parameters, to provide a definite ranking system. Read more Features The Feature Score % is calculated using the weighted average method, where core features hold more weight in the final calculation. Read more 100% Reviews 74% Momentum 64% Popularity 78%	85% SW Score The SW Score ranks the products within a particular category on a variety of parameters, to provide a definite ranking system. Read more Features The Feature Score % is calculated using the weighted average method, where core features hold more weight in the final calculation. Read more 93% Reviews 60% Momentum 74% Popularity 90%
SaaSworthy Awards	# 10 Fastest Growing	Not Available

Features

Total Features	9 Features	7 Features
Common Features for All	Access Control Defines application access to various users. Includes role-based system that controls options to be displayed to different users based on their role Approval Process Control Allows to approve or reject the content before publishing Content Blocks Allows editors to build and edit dynamic pages without needing a developer’s help. Document Management Ability to store and manage various information and documents in electronic format. Drag and Drop Editor Lets you customize the elements with images, web forms, boxes, tables, etc. by simple drag and drop interface Multi-language Support Available in multiple languages to support global customers Rich Text Editor Allows to write content directly with rich text formatting Version Control It gives the team the ability to recall specific versions of a document, code, content, file, or folder that records changes over time. WYSIWYG Editor Helps to edit in real time while building the website using the software + 6 More - Show Less	Access Control Defines application access to various users. Includes role-based system that controls options to be displayed to different users based on their role Approval Process Control Allows to approve or reject the content before publishing Content Blocks Allows editors to build and edit dynamic pages without needing a developer’s help. Document Management Ability to store and manage various information and documents in electronic format. Drag and Drop Editor Lets you customize the elements with images, web forms, boxes, tables, etc. by simple drag and drop interface Multi-language Support Available in multiple languages to support global customers Rich Text Editor Allows to write content directly with rich text formatting Version Control It gives the team the ability to recall specific versions of a document, code, content, file, or folder that records changes over time. WYSIWYG Editor Helps to edit in real time while building the website using the software + 4 More - Show Less

Technical Details

Organization Types Supported	Freelancers Large Enterprises Medium Business Small Business	Freelancers Large Enterprises Medium Business Small Business
Platforms Supported	SaaS/Web/Cloud	SaaS/Web/Cloud
Modes of Support	Online	Online
API Support	Available	Available

Reviews & Ratings

User Rating	4.9/5 31 user ratings	Not Available
Rating Distribution	Excellent 87.1% Very Good 12.9% Average 0% Poor 0% Terrible 0%	Not Available
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Pricing

Pricing Options	Free Trial Available Offers Free-forever and Custom plan.	Free Trial Not Available Starts at $35.0. Offers Free-forever and Custom plan.
Pricing Plans Monthly Plans Annual Plans	Developer Free Professional Others Scale Others Enterprise Custom	Self-hosted Free Standard $35.00 $35.00 per month Pro $199.00 $199.00 per month Enterprise Custom
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