Typeform vs Contentful
Conversational forms that feel human — dominant brand in online forms
vs. Enterprise headless CMS — Compose + Studio + Personalization
Pricing tiers
Typeform
Free
$0. Unlimited forms, only 10 responses/mo, Typeform branding, 3 questions/form max on some plans.
Free
Basic
$25/mo. 100 responses/mo. Remove branding. Unlimited questions.
$25/mo
Plus
$50/mo. 1,000 responses/mo. Custom domain, hidden fields, logic jumps.
$50/mo
Business
$83/mo. 10,000 responses/mo. Priority support, advanced analytics.
$83/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SSO, dedicated success manager, HIPAA, large response volumes.
Custom
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
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Typeform vs free on Contentful.
| Metric | Typeform | Contentful |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Typeform · 14 features
- 30+ Question Types — Video, rating, payment, choice, etc.
- Analytics — Completion rate, drop-off, by device.
- Calculations — Score + formula fields.
- Conversational Flow — One question at a time.
- Custom Domain — forms.yourbrand.com.
- Embed Options — Inline, popup, side tab, popover, slider.
- Hidden Fields — Inject params from URL/app.
- Logic Jumps — Branching logic (Plus+).
- OAuth (Typeform Connect) — Build apps that access user forms.
- Payments (Stripe) — Paid orders/donations.
- REST API — Manage forms + fetch responses.
- Template Library — 3,000+ templates.
- VideoAsk (separate product) — Async video Q&A.
- Webhooks — Real-time submission events.
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
| Kind | Typeform | Contentful |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | — | contentful-cli |
| SDK | @typeform/embed | contentful (JS client), contentful-management (Node) |
| REST | Responses API, Typeform Data API | Content Delivery API, Content Management API, Content Preview API, Images API |
| GRAPHQL | — | GraphQL Content API |
| OTHER | Typeform Builder, Typeform Connect, Typeform Webhooks | Webhooks |
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