Contentful vs Formspree
Enterprise headless CMS — Compose + Studio + Personalization
vs. Form backend as a service — point your HTML form at a URL and done
Pricing tiers
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
Formspree
Free
$0. 50 submissions/mo. 1 form. Formspree branding in emails. Basic spam filtering.
Free
Basic
$10/mo. 500 submissions/mo. Unlimited forms. Custom success redirect. Honeypot anti-spam.
$10/mo
Professional
$20/mo. 1,000 submissions/mo. reCAPTCHA, webhooks, integrations, rules engine.
$20/mo
Unlimited
$40/mo. 2,500 submissions. File uploads, team members, priority support.
$40/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SSO, SAML, HIPAA, high volume, dedicated support.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Contentful vs free on Formspree.
| Metric | Contentful | Formspree |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
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.
Formspree · 11 features
- Custom Success Redirect — Redirect after submit.
- Email Notifications — Submissions delivered to inbox.
- File Uploads — Accept attachments (Unlimited).
- IP Filtering — Block spam IPs.
- React SDK — Hooks + state management.
- Rules Engine — Conditional routing, auto-responders.
- Spam Protection — Honeypot + reCAPTCHA + keyword filter.
- Submission Analytics — Volume + source stats.
- Team Members — Multi-user (Unlimited).
- Webhooks — POST submissions to your server.
- Zero Backend — HTML <form action> → email.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Contentful | Formspree |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | contentful-cli | — |
| SDK | contentful (JS client), contentful-management (Node) | @formspree/core, @formspree/react |
| REST | Content Delivery API, Content Management API, Content Preview API, Images API | Formspree REST API |
| GRAPHQL | GraphQL Content API | — |
| OTHER | Webhooks | Direct HTML Form Submit, Formspree Dashboard, Formspree Webhooks |
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