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Strapi
Headless CMS with REST and GraphQL APIs
As of 30 August 2026, Strapi starts at $35/month. Strapi is an open-source headless CMS that provides automatic REST and GraphQL APIs for managing content. Softwr lists it under APIs. Strapi is launched in 2015, available on API, Web, Self-hosted.
Overview
What Strapi does
Strapi is an open-source headless CMS that provides automatic REST and GraphQL APIs for managing content. It's highly customizable and enables rapid API development with content management capabilities.
What people use it for
- Running a self hosted headless CMS with a REST or GraphQL API
- Giving editors a content admin panel over a custom content model
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Strapi.
- Cloud pricing is per project, not per account, so a second project doubles the bill
- Starter at $35 a month allows 100,000 API requests, and overage is $1.50 per 25,000
- Extra bandwidth is $30 per 100 GB and extra asset storage $0.60 per GB
- Backups start at the Pro plan, weekly, and only become daily at Business
- An uptime SLA is Business only, at $450 a month per project
- Additional environments cost $60 a month on Pro and $300 a month on Business
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What people choose instead of Strapi
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Pricing
What Strapi costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Starter
$35 /mo
- 100k API requests
- 50 GB asset storage
- 50 GB asset bandwidth
- Unlimited database entries
Pro
$90 /mo
- 1M API requests
- 250 GB asset storage
- 500 GB asset bandwidth
- Unlimited database entries
- Multi-environment support
Business
$450 /mo
- 10M API requests
- 1000 GB asset storage
- 1000 GB asset bandwidth
- Unlimited database entries
- 1 extra environment
- Daily backups
Capabilities
Features
REST API
GraphQL API
Content management
PostgreSQL
Integration with PostgreSQL
MySQL
Integration with MySQL
MongoDB
Integration with MongoDB
AWS
Integration with AWS
Webhooks
Integration with Webhooks
Node.js support
Available on Node.js
Cloud support
Available on Cloud
Self-hosted support
Available on Self-hosted
Docker support
Available on Docker
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
How much do API request overages cost?
Additional API requests beyond the plan limit cost $1.50 per 25000 requests. Extra asset storage costs $0.60 per GB, and additional bandwidth costs $30 per 100 GB.
SourceIs yearly billing available?
Yes, yearly billing saves up to 17% compared to monthly billing on Strapi Cloud plans.
SourceWhat is included with the Pro plan?
The Pro plan costs $90 per month per project and includes 1M API requests, 250 GB asset storage, 500 GB bandwidth, multi-environment support, weekly backups, and manual backups.
SourceBehind it
Who makes Strapi
- Company
- Strapi
- Based in
- Paris, France
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