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24 alternatives to Lucidcms

Minimal headless CMS for side projects

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Lucidcms launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    JustCMS▲255

    AI-powered, affordable, headless cms

    2025 · slotvipjpterus.co · its alternatives →

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    Headless CMS for small projects

    2021 · justfields.com · its alternatives →

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    Strapi 5▲353

    Headless CMS designed for customization and performance

    2024 · strapi.io · its alternatives →

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    GraphCMS▲264

    The GraphQL CMS

    2017 · hygraph.com · 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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    Codelia▲68

    Headless CMS to develop websites and e-commerce

    2021 · its alternatives →

  7. 7WC
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    GraphCMS▲310

    The original GraphQL CMS, evolved.

    2020 · hygraph.com · its alternatives →

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    Visual editing for Headless CMS

    Feb 2026 · datocms.com · its alternatives →

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    Your new Git-based headless CMS experience

    2022 · contentrain.io · 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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    Marble▲280

    Manage your CMS content from Claude, Cursor, and Codex

    Dec 2025 · marblecms.com · its alternatives →

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    Headless CMS that combines Git & Serverless platforms

    2024 · contentrain.io · 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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    Prismic▲85

    Content management as a service

    2014 · prismic.io · its alternatives →

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    DatoCMS▲229

    The most complete, user-friendly and performant Headless CMS

    2017 · datocms.com · its alternatives →

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    A new super flexible open source CMS. Contribute to internalfx/pageflo development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

  18. 18DH

    The content platform for projects of any size, built around the needs of all team members. Simply put, the most user-friendly and performant headless CMS.

    2017 · datocms.com · its alternatives →

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    Croct▲387

    We just launched Croct Templates, a way to drop CMS-powered components into your app with a single command. It's like Shadcn, but for CMS, AB testing and personalization: * Built-in support for A/B testing, content editing, and dynamic logic * Works with existing projects (Next.js, React, etc.) * Supports community libraries via `npm://`, `shadcn-ui://`, etc. Example: ```bash npx croct@latest use shadcn-ui://block/pricing-page ``` Happy to answer any questions!

    2025 · croct.com · its alternatives →

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    The best CMS is the one you already use

    2024 · webstudio.is · its alternatives →

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    an agentic cms self-hosted on cloudflare, for podcasts, blogs, photos, videos, documents, and curated urls. - microfeed/microfeed

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Headless CMS - built for exceptional user experience

    2023 · headlesshost.com · its alternatives →

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    Lightweight open-source headless cms

    2025 · barecms.dev · its alternatives →

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