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Contentful pricing & features
Enterprise headless CMS — Compose + Studio + Personalization
Enterprise-grade headless CMS. Content Delivery API, Management API, GraphQL, Compose visual editor, Studio page builder, Personalization (ex-Ninetailed), Image API.
Data sourced from vendor documentation · Last updated May 2026
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 10 users, 2 roles, 2 locales, 100K API calls/mo, 50 GB CDN, 10K records, 25 content types. |
| Lite | $300/mo | $300/mo. 20 users, 3 roles, 3 locales, 1M API calls/mo, 100 GB CDN. |
| Premium | Custom | Custom. Unlimited API calls, unlimited spaces, 24/7 support, 99.99% SLA. |
| Personalization Add-on | Custom | Start/Core/Scale (100K/500K/1M MAUs). Custom pricing. |
Limits
| Tier | Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | ai actions | Included Premium / PAYG or pre-pay on lower tiers | AI Actions |
| — | asset upload max | 50 MB | Max asset upload size (configurable higher on paid) |
| — | content types free | 25 types | Free content types limit |
| — | environments free | 2 envs | Free environments |
| — | free hard caps | No API overage on Free — fails if exceeded | Free tier hard limits |
| — | locales premium | Custom (typically 100+) | Premium locales |
| — | sla enterprise | Up to 99.99% | Enterprise SLA |
| — | spaces model | Starter Space included; extra paid per tier | Space allocation |
Features
- AI Actions — AI content generation/translation/editing in workflow.
- App Framework — Build custom apps + extensions for the web UI. · docs
- Compose — Visual page-building UI for editors. · docs
- Content Delivery API — Read-only, cached, fast (CDN-backed) for published content.
- Content Management API — Full read/write for admin + authoring tools.
- Content Modeling — Rich content types with fields, references, validations.
- Contentful Studio — AI-assisted multi-channel composition.
- 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
| Slug | Name | Kind | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| cda | Content Delivery API | rest | v1 |
| cma | Content Management API | rest | v1 |
| cpa | Content Preview API | rest | v1 |
| graphql | GraphQL Content API | graphql | v1 |
| images | Images API | rest | — |
| webhooks | Webhooks | other | — |
| sdk-js | contentful (JS client) | sdk | 11.x |
| cli | contentful-cli | cli | 3.x |
| sdk-node | contentful-management (Node) | sdk | 11.x |
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