Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Payload CMS
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Payload CMS launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Payload CMS▲143Developer-first TypeScript & React headless CMS
2021 · payloadcms.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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Contentrain▲218Headless CMS that combines Git & Serverless platforms
2024 · contentrain.io · its alternatives →
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Strapi 5▲353Headless CMS designed for customization and performance
2024 · strapi.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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We've been building Crust (https://crustjs.com/), a TypeScript-first, Bun-native CLI framework with zero dependencies. It's been powering our core product internally for a while, and we're now open-sourcing it. The problem we kept running into: existing CLI frameworks in the JS ecosystem are either minimal arg parsers where you wire everything yourself, or heavyweight frameworks with large dependency trees and Node-era assumptions. We wanted something in between. What Crust does differently: - Full type inference from definitions — args and flags are inferred automatically. No…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Xano▲390Hi HN — I’m Daniel, DevRel at Xano. Three years ago, Xano started as an internal tool at a software agency. We were rebuilding the same backend infrastructure for every client—auth, databases, APIs, file storage, scaling, security—over and over again. To save time, the team built a platform that could generate production-grade backends in days instead of months. That internal tool evolved into Xano, which now powers products used by both startups and large enterprises. Companies like Deriv, an online trading broker with over 3 million customers, use Xano to ship features faster without…
2021 · xano.com · its alternatives →
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Render▲318Hey HN, I'm Anurag, founder and CEO of Render, a cloud for application developers. We've just launched Render Workflows, a way to define durable tasks by decorating plain TypeScript or Python functions and running them on Render without operating queues, worker pools, retry logic, and state management. Code example below [1]. The use cases we have in mind include agent loops, ETL/data pipelines, billing flows, and other long-running jobs. The model is simple: mark an existing function as a Task, deploy the repo as a Workflow, then trigger runs from your application code or via our API.…
2019 · render.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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A command-line utility for deploying serverless applications to AWS. Complete with custom domains, deploy previews, TypeScript support, and more. - JakePartusch/serverlessui
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Payload CMS blocks installed wired, not pasted
Jun 2026 · payload-components.xyz · 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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Simple Content Platform to manage any structured content
2014 · getcockpit.com · 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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2025 · mackow.ski · its alternatives →
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