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EU VETTED
Alternatives to

European alternatives to Contentful.

Berlin-founded but US-headquartered + heavily US-funded (Tiger Global, Sapphire, BlackRock); operates as the headless-CMS market anchor for our purposes.

ALTERNATIVES
6
CLOUD-ACT · NONE
0
WITH BSI C5
0
FREE TIER
6

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TOP PICKS

Which are the closest Contentful alternatives?

Ordered by feature parity and migration friction, which is weighted higher than feature breadth.

Storyblok
Austria · Founded 2017
EU-HOSTED
★ #1 PICK

Austrian headless CMS (Linz, est. 2017); ISO 27001, enterprise customers (Disney, Netflix); Brighton Park US-PE led Series C.

Public DPA Sub-processors Open source
FROM
—
CLOUD ACT
MATERIAL
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Strapi
France · Founded 2017
EU-HOSTED
★ #2 PICK

Paris-based open-source headless CMS (founded 2017); MIT-licensed core, Strapi Cloud PaaS, US-VC-funded (Insight, CRV).

Public DPA Sub-processors Open source
FROM
€15/mo
CLOUD ACT
MATERIAL
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Hygraph
Germany · Founded 2017
EU-BASED
★ #3 PICK

Berlin GraphQL-native headless CMS (formerly GraphCMS, founded 2017); enterprise clients incl. Samsung, LEGO; mostly EU-funded.

Public DPA Sub-processors Open source
FROM
€39/mo
CLOUD ACT
MINOR
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SIDE-BY-SIDE

How do the 6 European alternatives to Contentful compare?

All 6 alternatives, benchmarked against Contentful.

Feature comparison

Beyond compliance: how these alternatives compare on the capabilities you actually use day to day.

Feature Storyblok Strapi Hygraph Prismic DatoCMS Enonic
Self-hostable No Yes No No No Yes
Version history Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
GraphQL API Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
REST API Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Visual editor Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Localization (i18n) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Media library Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
API / webhooks Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
WHAT YOU'RE LEAVING
What are you leaving behind with Contentful?

Listed for transparency. Every product on this page is benchmarked against this baseline.

Contentful US-incorporated

Berlin-founded but US-headquartered + heavily US-funded (Tiger Global, Sapphire, BlackRock); operates as the headless-CMS market anchor for our purposes.

US-based
OWNERSHIP
US-OWNED
CLOUD ACT
DIRECT
HOSTING
Likely AWS · US
SCHREMS II
Default SCC + supp.
METHODOLOGY

How we verified each row above.

For every product we read the public DPA, sub-processors document, hosting region declaration, and corporate ownership records. Each is timestamped. Signals are editorial, re-verified quarterly. We never accept self-attestation.

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