6 free alternatives to Prismic

Contentful's free plan gives you access to 10 users, 2 roles, 2 locales, 100K API calls per month, 50 GB of CDN bandwidth per month, and 1 Starter Space. It also includes structured content, developer tools, and the editorial experience, so it covers the basics of a headless CMS without forcing an early upgrade. Its main advantage over Prismic is team capacity, since it supports many more users on the free tier. It falls short on API volume and CDN bandwidth, which are much lower than Prismic's. Switch if your bottleneck is editors, not traffic or API usage.

• Beats Prismic: 10 users instead of 1 user
• Falls short: 100K API calls per month and 50 GB CDN bandwidth are both below Prismic
• Who should switch: Switch to Contentful if you need a free plan for a larger editorial team and can live with much smaller API and bandwidth caps.

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Squidex's free Starter plan includes 20,000 API calls per month, 2 GB traffic, 500 MB storage, 2 contributors, Contents CDN, Assets CDN, and no credit card requirement. It is a smaller-cap starter than Prismic, but it gives you a self-hostable CMS option outside the cloud plan if you outgrow the hosted limits later. The free tier is most useful for light content projects that care more about ownership and deployment flexibility than about generous hosted quotas. It falls short of Prismic on nearly every raw usage limit, especially API calls, bandwidth, and unlimited content volume. Switch if you want an open-source path and do not need Prismic-scale free quotas.

• Beats Prismic: Open-source self-hosting path
• Falls short: 20,000 API calls and 2 GB traffic are far below Prismic
• Who should switch: Switch to Squidex if you want a free CMS with an open-source escape hatch and can accept much tighter hosted limits.

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Hygraph's free Hobby plan includes 2 locales, 3 seats, 2 standard roles, 10 components, unlimited asset storage, 50 MB maximum asset upload size, live preview, commenting and assignment workflow, 1,000 entries, 500,000 API calls, 100 GB asset traffic, 5 uncached requests per second, 1 environment, 5 webhooks, 3 API tokens, 100,000 AI tokens, 2 content stages, and 2 models. It gives a lot of room for content modeling and collaboration on a free plan, while keeping previews and workflow features available. Its biggest edge over Prismic is workflow depth and seat count. It falls short on API calls and overall content room compared with Prismic's unlimited documents and much higher API cap. Switch if you want stronger collaboration features and can work within a structured but capped free tier.

• Beats Prismic: 3 seats and deeper workflow features
• Falls short: 1,000 entries and 500,000 API calls are below Prismic's unlimited docs and 4 million API calls
• Who should switch: Switch to Hygraph if you want free collaboration and workflow features beyond what Prismic's solo-focused free tier gives you.

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Builder.io's free tier includes up to 5 users per space, GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket connections, public previews, an admin-only role, usage metrics, and onboarding plus deployed engineering support. It is less of a content repository CMS and more of a visual building layer connected to your codebase and design system. Its free tier beats Prismic on team access, since it allows more users per space. It falls short on content-modeling depth and the built-in CMS limits are not laid out here in the same way as Prismic's unlimited documents and assets. Switch if your main need is visual editing inside an existing code workflow rather than a pure headless CMS.

• Beats Prismic: Up to 5 users per space
• Falls short: It is not as directly aligned with Prismic's unlimited-document headless CMS model
• Who should switch: Switch to Builder.io if you need a visual layer for a codebase and your main free-tier pain is the single-user limit.

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Storyblok's free Starter plan includes 1 space, 1 user seat included with up to 2 user seats total, 100GB traffic per month, 100,000 API requests per month, 2 locales, and 25,000 AI credits. It also keeps the plan perpetual and no-card, so you can stay on it for small projects without a deadline. Compared with Prismic, it offers a similar free experience for solo or two-person teams, but with much lower API throughput and less content headroom. Its main advantage is that the plan is clearly structured for a small workspace with traffic and AI allowances. Switch if your project is small and you want a compact starter workspace with a visual editor.

• Beats Prismic: A free starter workspace with 25,000 AI credits
• Falls short: 100,000 API requests and 1 space are smaller than Prismic's unlimited content and 4 million API calls
• Who should switch: Switch to Storyblok if you want a small perpetual starter plan and do not need Prismic's much larger API ceiling.

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Cosmic's free tier includes 1 bucket, 2 team members, 1,000 objects, 1 agent and 1 workflow, 1 project, 50 object types, 300k AI tokens per month, 10k non-cached API requests per month, 100k cached API requests per month, 1GB API bandwidth, 1,000 media files, 1GB media storage, 1M media requests per month, 1GB media bandwidth, 100K Cosmic Insights events per month, and 30 days of retention. It is the most automation-heavy free option in this set, with built-in AI and workflow features that go beyond basic CMS publishing. It beats Prismic on agent and workflow capability, but it falls far short on content scale, API volume, and media/bandwidth headroom. Switch if you want automation and analytics in the free tier more than large publishing capacity.

• Beats Prismic: 1 agent and 1 workflow included on the free plan
• Falls short: 10k non-cached API requests and 1,000 objects are far below Prismic
• Who should switch: Switch to Cosmic if your free-tier priority is AI and workflow automation rather than Prismic-style publishing scale.

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