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Craft vs Netlify CMS: What are the differences?

Craft: A CMS built to do one thing and do it well: manage content. Craft is a content management system (CMS) that’s laser-focused on doing one thing really, really well: managing content; Netlify CMS: Open source content management for your Git workflow. It is built as a single-page React app. You can create custom-styled previews, UI widgets, and editor plugins or add backends to support different Git platform APIs.

Craft and Netlify CMS belong to "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Craft are:

  • Relations
  • Matrix
  • Assets

On the other hand, Netlify CMS provides the following key features:

  • Fast, web-based UI
  • platform agnostic
  • easy install

Netlify CMS is an open source tool with 9.22K GitHub stars and 1.27K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Netlify CMS's open source repository on GitHub.

Postmark, nclud, and UMake are some of the popular companies that use Craft, whereas Netlify CMS is used by onbootstrap, Instruqt, and IT Consultis. Craft has a broader approval, being mentioned in 56 company stacks & 54 developers stacks; compared to Netlify CMS, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.

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Pros of Craft
Pros of Netlify CMS
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    Quick bespoke CMS
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    Easy to use CMS
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    Clean slate approach to templating
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    Has it's own StackExcange
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    Clean templating markup (twig)
  • 2
    Great support
  • 2
    Free licence available for single user account version
  • 3
    Open source
  • 2
    Free
  • 1
    GraphQL API

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Cons of Craft
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    What is Craft?

    Craft is a content management system (CMS) that’s laser-focused on doing one thing really, really well: managing content.

    What is Netlify CMS?

    It is built as a single-page React app. You can create custom-styled previews, UI widgets, and editor plugins or add backends to support different Git platform APIs.

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    What are some alternatives to Craft and Netlify CMS?
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