Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Cosmic – Headless CMS and API toolkit v2.0
Hello HN, I’m Tony, the CEO of Cosmic (YC W19). We just released Cosmic 2.0. This release is the result of two years of dedicated work by our team which we are proud to share with you. Our new website: https://www.cosmicjs.com Documentation: https://www.cosmicjs.com/docs. Sign up for the new Cosmic dashboard (https://app.cosmicjs.com/signup). Free plans available. Cosmic is an API-first (headless) CMS that offers a web dashboard to create content and API tools to deliver content to any website or app. Our customers use Cosmic to avoid the pain of…
Cosmic is a headless CMS that provides a web dashboard for creating content and APIs for delivering it to websites and applications. Designed for developers and content teams, it eliminates the need to build and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Cosmic – Headless CMS and API toolkit v2.0 launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Cosmic is the managed headless CMS for content teams. Editors publish without tickets. One platform across sites, brands, and locales.
2019 · cosmicjs.com · its alternatives →
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*API v2 JavaScript client for Cosmic. See important message in README - cosmicjs/cosmicjs-node
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cosmic CLI▲117Hi HN, I'm Tony, founder of Cosmic (a headless CMS). We just open-sourced a CLI that covers the full lifecycle of a content-driven app from creating the content model to deploying to production to updating the codebase all without leaving the terminal. Here's what the full workflow looks like: # Create a project with an AI-generated content model cosmic projects create # → "A recipe blog with recipes, categories, and authors" # Generate content cosmic content -p "Create 5 recipes with images across different categories" # Build a full-stack app wired to your content cosmic build -p "A modern…
Feb 2026 · cosmicjs.com · its alternatives →
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Cosmic JS (YC W19) is a Headless CMS and API toolkit that helps teams build modern apps faster, together. We're excited to announce a new way to collaborate with your team on your digital projects. Introducing Workspaces (https://cosmicjs.com/workspaces) Included with every Enterprise plan, your Workspace gives your team all of the powerful features of the Cosmic JS hosted CMS plus added benefits that make it your own. With your company workspace you get: - A branded company login page - White label dashboard experience - Custom company subdomain - Usage and activity reports…
2019 · its alternatives →
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Next-gen headless CMS: unlock your content's full potential
2024 · hygraph.com · its alternatives →
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The home for all of your digital projects
2019 · cosmicjs.com · its alternatives →
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Hey hackers, OP here! I've been dipping in and out of this problem space for the last few years with many of my clients. Puck sits somewhere between an old-school WYSIWYG-powered CMS and headless one, allowing content teams to author content using real React components. Traditional CMS solutions were flexible but often resulted in page that completely broke the brand guidelines. Headless CMS solutions are a fantastic way of controlling brand by restricting UI changes to developers, but makes layout changes restrictive and slow as developers often need to get involved. Puck provides a visual…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Read the latest news, product updates, and announcements from the Hygraph team.
2018 · graphcms.com · its alternatives →
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Marble▲280Manage your CMS content from Claude, Cursor, and Codex
Dec 2025 · marblecms.com · its alternatives →
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Strapi 5▲353Headless CMS designed for customization and performance
2024 · strapi.io · its alternatives →
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Payload CMS▲143Developer-first TypeScript & React headless CMS
2021 · payloadcms.com · its alternatives →
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Payload CMS▲176The best TypeScript CMS developer experience there is
2022 · payloadcms.com · its alternatives →
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In the last few years I've been doing a lot of technical writing, both for my own programming blog and others, and I've noticed there is a lack of good tools for this kind of writing. Whether that was a programming blog post or documentation, I always had to move back an forth between different editors, and sometimes even other apps for content management and the actual content publication. A lot of copy-pasting, and wasted time. Based on this experience I decided to try and build a tool that could provide a good experience for this kind of content from writing to publishing. This (I call it…
2023 · vrite.io · its alternatives →
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Sanity is the back-end built for AI content operations. Power web, mobile, and agentic applications at scale.
2017 · sanity.io · its alternatives →
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