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Cloudways vs Contentful

Managed cloud hosting across DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Google Cloud
vs. Enterprise headless CMS — Compose + Studio + Personalization

Cloudways website ↗Contentful website ↗

Pricing tiers

Cloudways

Autonomous — Free Trial
3-day free trial. 1 server, 20 GB disk, 150 GB bandwidth.
Free
Flexible — DO Micro
DigitalOcean-backed. 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB storage, 2 TB bandwidth. Starting tier.
$11/mo
Flexible — DO Medium
4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB, 5 TB bandwidth.
$88/mo
Autonomous — Growth
WordPress-optimized autoscaling. 1 baseline server, 20 GB disk, 150 GB bandwidth.
$100/mo
Autonomous — Scale
2 baseline servers, 50 GB disk, 250 GB bandwidth.
$200/mo
Flexible — DO 8XL
24 vCPU, 128 GB RAM, 2.56 TB storage, 11 TB bandwidth.
$342/mo
Autonomous — Plus
3 baseline servers, 100 GB disk, 1 TB bandwidth.
$400/mo
Enterprise
Custom autoscale, volume pricing.
Custom
Cloudways website ↗

Contentful

Free
10 users, 2 roles, 2 locales, 100K API calls/mo, 50 GB CDN, 10K records, 25 content types.
Free
Lite
$300/mo. 20 users, 3 roles, 3 locales, 1M API calls/mo, 100 GB CDN.
$300/mo
Premium
Custom. Unlimited API calls, unlimited spaces, 24/7 support, 99.99% SLA.
Custom
Personalization Add-on
Start/Core/Scale (100K/500K/1M MAUs). Custom pricing.
Custom
Contentful website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing auto-free-trial on Cloudways vs free on Contentful.

MetricCloudwaysContentful
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Cloudways · 17 features

  • Autonomous (WordPress) — Fully managed WordPress with autoscaling.
  • Backups — Automated daily + on-demand. Retention configurable.
  • Bot Protection — Cloudflare Enterprise bot filtering add-on.
  • Bot Scaler — Autonomous: auto-scale based on traffic patterns.
  • Breeze (WP cache plugin) — In-house WordPress caching plugin.
  • CloudwaysCDN — Built-in CDN add-on (StackPath-backed).
  • Flexible Plans — BYO-sized servers on any of 5 providers. Full control over stack.
  • Free Let's Encrypt SSL — 1-click cert install + auto-renewal.
  • Free Migration — 1 free app migration per plan. Cloudways team moves your site.
  • Horizontal Scaling — Auto-scale app servers (Autonomous plans).
  • Malware Protection — Add-on ($4/app/month). Scan + clean.
  • Object Cache Pro — Included on certain plans. Redis-backed object cache for WP.
  • SafeUpdates — Automated WordPress plugin/theme updates with rollback.
  • Staging Environments — 1-click staging clones with push-to-live.
  • Team Collaboration — Invite team members with granular role permissions.
  • Thunderstack (Optimized) — Apache + Nginx + Varnish + Redis + Memcached preconfigured for speed.
  • Vertical Scaling — Resize server specs without migration.

Contentful · 17 features

  • AI Actions — AI content generation/translation/editing in workflow.
  • App Framework — Build custom apps + extensions for the web UI.
  • Compose — Visual page-building UI for editors.
  • Content Delivery API — Read-only, cached, fast (CDN-backed) for published content.
  • Contentful Studio — AI-assisted multi-channel composition.
  • Content Management API — Full read/write for admin + authoring tools.
  • Content Modeling — Rich content types with fields, references, validations.
  • Environments — Branchable content workspaces (staging, preview, etc.).
  • GraphQL Content API — Flexible queries with pagination, filtering, nested references.
  • Images API — On-the-fly image manipulation (crop, resize, format).
  • Localization — Multi-locale content with inheritance.
  • Marketplace Apps — 300+ apps: Cloudinary, Shopify, BigCommerce, Optimizely, etc.
  • Personalization — Content variants by audience. Acquired Ninetailed 2024.
  • Scheduled Publishing — Queue entries for future publish.
  • Tasks + Comments — Editorial collaboration.
  • Webhooks — HTTP + transformation on publish/unpublish/archive.
  • Workflows — Editorial approval + publication workflows.

Developer interfaces

KindCloudwaysContentful
CLI—contentful-cli
SDK—contentful (JS client), contentful-management (Node)
RESTCloudways APIContent Delivery API, Content Management API, Content Preview API, Images API
GRAPHQL—GraphQL Content API
OTHERCloudways Platform (web UI), Server SSH Access, SFTPWebhooks
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