Strapi vs Content Collections
Compare Strapi and Content Collections for your content needs. Find out what actual users are saying about each product and which one is best suited for you!


What Users Say
See what users who have used Strapi and Content Collections have to say about their overall experience with the product.
Strapi's Key Strengths
Read what users love about Strapi.
Content Collections's Key Strengths
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Strapi's Key Issues
Read what issues users have with Strapi.
Content Collections's Key Issues
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What Marketers & Content Creators Say
Hear from the users who uses Strapi and Content Collections daily about their experience with the editors.
Strapi's Editorial Experience Highlights
What marketers love about Strapi's editor.
Content Collections's Editorial Experience Highlights
What marketers love about Content Collections's editor.
Strapi's Editorial Experience Issues
What marketers dislike about Strapi's editor.
Content Collections's Editorial Experience Issues
What marketers dislike about Content Collections's editor.
Mobile Editing
Find out how the platforms handle the mobile-first experience for the new generation of workforce on the move.
Strapi has plans for mobile features but currently lacks a full mobile-first content editor experience.
"For both marketers and developers, it could be very useful to have the ability to contribute content from their tablet and mobile."Source
"Strapi now supports Vercel Visual Editing, currently in Beta."Source
"I started using strapi... but I really hate the responses you get, deeply nested responses."Source
"the default editor for strapi supports it... it's just a small markdown editor."Source
Wisp and Contentful support mobile-first experiences for content creation on mobile devices.
Automatic Content Linking
Find out if the platform supports automatic linking of related content to help user discover more content without additional manual effort from the marketer. This automatically create topical clusters of content and is essential for SEO.
Strapi does not support automatic related blog linking; internal linking requires manual setup via relations.
The CMS does not support automated internal linking of related blog posts based on content similarity.
"You can define a collection from a set of data that is structurally similar."Source
"We can manually add blogs one by one into the section and include a button that directs to the relevant URL."Source
"Webflow Collections allow you to create groups of content but do not automate related content linking."Source
Automatic CTA Linking
Find out if the platform supports automatic display of Call-to-Actions using AI to help users take actions that are relevant to the content they are reading.
Content Collections does not support automated linking for CTAs; this feature is generally missing in most CMS products.
Comments
Find out if the platform supports comments from your users to improve user engagement. This is often a great way to collect feedback and user emails.
Strapi supports commenting through plugins, providing features like moderation and bad words filtering, but it's not built-in out of the box.
"A plugin for Strapi Headless CMS that provides end to end comments feature with their moderation panel, bad words filtering, abuse reporting and more."Source
"The plugin includes features like bad word filtering, abuse reporting and a moderation panel."Source
"Learn in this video how to create a comment system in your Strapi application."Source
"Strapi based comments moderation tool for managing user comments with features like automated filtering and abuse reporting."Source
Webflow CMS supports commenting via a paid add-on with built-in moderation features.
"Supercharge your Webflow CMS with comments that let people interact with your Collection content."Source
"However, this permission does not allow visitors to update existing items or their field values."Source
"When you create Collections in the Webflow CMS, you can add Collection items manually."Source
Multi-tenancy
Find out if the platform supports managing multiple clients or projects within a single account. This is useful for agencies, multi-client or multi-project scenarios.
Strapi supports a pseudo multi-tenancy approach, allowing multiple instances with isolated resources but not full out-of-the-box multi-tenancy.
"In Strapi, a multitenant approach refers to the ability of the system to serve multiple tenants or customers, each with its own isolated and independent set of resources."Source
"I am using single code base and able to run 10+ sites. This makes easier to manage and roll out the new feature easily."Source
"The multi-tenancy (or multi-projects) changes the architecture of an application to allow multiple projects in a single Strapi application."Source
Statamic supports multiple sites but is not intended for multi-tenant applications.
"I'm currently thinking of having a content collection called Organization, with a relation to an Admin User (User type, admin role)."Source
"Strapi (which you can trick into multitenancy but it's not out of the box and, unfortunately, I can't get it to work)"Source
"Payload has a multi-tenancy feature but requires significant setup."Source
"The multi-tenancy feature lets you segregate content in CRX based on organization."Source
"Statamic's multi-site capabilities are designed to manage a single site or site network with multiple localizations."Source
What Developers Say
Hear from developers who've integrated and built on Strapi and Content Collections about their experiences.
Strapi's DX Highlights
What developers love about building with Strapi.
Content Collections's DX Highlights
What developers love about building with Content Collections.
Strapi's DX Issues
What developers dislike about building with Strapi.
Content Collections's DX Issues
What developers dislike about building with Content Collections.
Content Modelling
Find out how developers model and manage their content with the platform with key highlights and limitations.
Strapi supports custom content modeling with various field types and dynamic structures.
"Create your REST or GraphQL API without coding in a couple of minutes using the Content-Type Builder."Source
"Strapi allows defining custom fields and components usable across multiple content-types."Source
"With Strapi, you can create flexible content structures that adapt to your needs."Source
"Implementing best practices ensures your content strategy is scalable and adaptable."Source
Content Collections supports content modelling with customizable schemas and validation via Zod.
"Transform your content into type-safe data collections, providing useful utilities for data fetching and parsing."Source
"Content Collections uses a schema to define the fields of a collection. Computed fields can be added with the transform function."Source
"The schema will validate the title and summary fields, ensuring data integrity."Source
Custom React Components
Find out if the platform supports custom React components to go beyond the basic HTML components for content.
No clear support for adding custom React components within Strapi's content editor.
Payload CMS supports custom React components in collections, enabling rich content integration.
"Swap in your own React components to be used within this Collection."Source
"Decap CMS exposes two constructs globally to allow you to create components inline."Source
"The same object is also the default export if you import Decap CMS as an npm module."Source
"Learn how to embed HubSpot forms in ButterCMS using a custom React component."Source
Full Text Search
Find out if the platform supports full text search across multiple fields to help users find content quickly.
Contentful supports full-text search across multiple fields, enhancing search capabilities.
"Full-text search is case insensitive and might return more results than expected. A query will ignore search tokens with less than 2 characters."Source
"In Contentful, full-text search terms are left anchored. This means that when you, for example, search for 'house,' we will convert it into the."Source
"In Contentful's GraphQL API you can do searching within different fields with collection filters. Equivalent to full-text searching."Source
"Contentful does include some intriguing full-text search capabilities out-of-the-box that searches across all fields."Source
Starter Kits
Discover starter kits and templates to help you get started with the platform.
Strapi offers multiple starter kits and templates for different use cases.
(Expand section to see a list of Strapi templates and starter kits.)
Content Collections offers starter kits and templates through Acquia and Astro.
(Expand section to see a list of Content Collections templates and starter kits.)
Pricing & Plans
Compare the prices of Strapi and Content Collections.