Headless CMS pricing across 5 tracked products: entry-tier median $0, top-tier median $300. Cheapest: Contentful. Most premium: Payload CMS. Updated April 2026.
Headless CMS pricing varies across per-seat, per-usage, and enterprise-quoted tiers. Published list prices on vendor pricing pages form the basis of this benchmark; negotiated deals typically land 15-40% below list for teams over 20 seats.
Entry-tier median is $0, top-tier median $300. Negotiated enterprise deals typically land 15-40% below list.
| Product | Entry | Median | Top | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contentful | $0 | $300 | $300 | month |
| Hygraph | $0 | $199 | $199 | month |
| Payload CMS | $0 | $416 | $833 | month |
| Sanity | $0 | $15 | $15 | month |
| Strapi | $0 | $90 | $450 | month |
Low is the entry-tier price (often a free or starter plan). Median is the middle price across published tiers. High is the top published tier — enterprise contracts with negotiated discounts usually land 15-40% below the published high.
Across 5 tracked products, the entry-tier median is $0 and the top-tier median is $300. Individual products vary significantly — see the per-product table above.
Contentful has the lowest entry-tier price in our tracked set.
Payload CMS has the highest top-tier list price among tracked products.
Prices are sourced from vendor pricing pages and automatically re-checked. Any tier marked 'custom' has no public list price; negotiated deals aren't shown here.