# Strapi Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is Strapi the right Headless CMS solution for you? Explore 65 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/170599/Strapi/reviews --- Strapi 4.7 (65) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/170599/Strapi/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of Strapi Ease of use 4.5 Customer Service 4.3 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews Vasilis K Web DeveloperInformation Technology and Services, Self-employedUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “I'm using Strapi for two projects of mine and the overall experience so far is very positive. Although, I wish the process of creating custom plugins and admin pages was easier.“ December 27, 2024 Vasilis K Web DeveloperInformation Technology and Services, Self-employedUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “If you decide to host Strapi on your own server it's not very easy.“ December 27, 2024 JW Jeremy W Senior Software EngineerMental Health Care, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “Third party integrations make Strapi an extremely flexible solution for many project types“ July 26, 2024 GL Guillaume L Full-Stack DeveloperInformation Technology and Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “The only other thing, is the lack of Responsive on the admin panel.“ November 16, 2023 NB Nestor B Senior Software EngineerBanking, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “Very well documented.“ January 2, 2026 YY Yekta Y Frontend DeveloperOutsourcing/Offshoring, Self-employedUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Some parts of the Strapi documentation are not clear.“ December 20, 2023 GO Gabriele O Founder, CEO, FullStack Dev.Alternative Medicine, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Perfect product for any developer or entrepreneur jumping from idea to testing.“ August 16, 2024 Rikki T Principal EngineerHospitality, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “v4 itself doesn't feel like a big enough upgrade or a robust enough product for it to have been worth it, and each update brings some sort of breaking change.“ January 24, 2023 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 65 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Vasilis K. Web Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Once of the best content management systems out there" December 27, 2024 5.0 I'm using Strapi for two projects of mine and the overall experience so far is very positive. Although, I wish the process of creating custom plugins and admin pages was easier. Pros I really like the Content-type Builder and how Strapi generates all the needed API endpoints. Cons If you decide to host Strapi on your own server it's not very easy. Also, there's a learning curve when it comes to creating custom plugins. Switched from [Airtable](https://www.capterra.com/p/146652/Airtable/) Because Strapi is a more suitable option for managing the content of your app. Review Source NB Nestor B. Senior Software Engineer Banking Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Flexible and Developer-Friendly Headless CMS" January 2, 2026 5.0 My experience with Strapi has been very positive. It works especially well as a headless CMS for managing content across multiple websites and applications from a single source, that is my personal Use Case. Also, they have a very good documentation for building Docker images of the project and deploy it to AWS, that also is the case for me, so, this have been very helpful too. Pros Its flexibility and developer-friendly approach. Very easy steps to install in local environment and try it. It’s very easy to model content types and reuse them across multiple websites and applications. Very well documented. Cons Upgrading between major versions can be challenging, especially when plugins or custom code are involved. Alternatives considered [Storyblok](https://www.capterra.com/p/213991/Storyblok/)[WordPress](https://www.capterra.com/p/131687/WordPress/) Reason for choosing Strapi Open source, self hosted, very user friendly UI. Developer friendly. Review Source PW Paul W. CTO Internet Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Promising but difficult to deploy and use" August 26, 2022 2.0 While I was very positive about trying Strapi the Docker image problem soured it and I found alternatives that worked better. Pros Open source, we can host it ourselves, active community, lots of features and extensions. Cons The Docker image is one major version behind but this is not made clear until you've spent hours trying to get it all working and then check the forums. Alternatives considered [Hygraph](https://www.capterra.com/p/168151/Hygraph/) Reason for choosing Strapi We didn't, we chose GraphCMS (now Hygraph.) Review Source JW Jeremy W. Senior Software Engineer Mental Health Care Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Strapi is a super flexible, low startup cost solution" July 26, 2024 5.0 Absolutely love it, once I found the answers to some key questions it all just worked, and I could build my first website very rapidly. Strapi was in fact the easiest thing to learn! Pros \- The self-hosted option is simply incredible, especially for smaller companies or in our case, non-for-profit - Easy to setup, does what you need without being complicated - Third party integrations make Strapi an extremely flexible solution for many project types - The API is really easy to use, from setup to a working site in mere minutes Cons \- Documentation could be improved, especially around production deployment and a few more common use examples in the filtering/populate space ahead of the real complex examples already there e.g. relationships or depth - A type reference to explain how to use or access for example TypeScript types for things like Rich text (blocks). Shouldn't need to find solutions outside Strapi to do this. - This is the same for all CMSs. Cloud hosted plans for small businesses / non-for-profit / infrequently updated sites. Alternatives considered [Storyblok](https://www.capterra.com/p/213991/Storyblok/)[Kentico](https://www.capterra.com/p/265226/Kentico/)[Sanity](https://www.capterra.com/p/199501/Sanity/)[Contentful](https://www.capterra.com/p/134266/Contentful/) Reason for choosing Strapi Cost!, ease of use, flexibility, Strapi values Switched from [Sitefinity](https://www.capterra.com/p/104832/Sitefinity/) Cost!, ease of use, flexibility, technology transformation, simplification, tech debt Review Source Jakub H. Founder Product Designer Design Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Strapi - a great API builder and a bad site builder" February 20, 2024 4.0 Generally Strapi is a great tool with the aim to be a robust CMS for large projects. I have use it to build/manage site which include live streaming, media portals and ecommerce. The "managing" part is fine, but most of the advanced functionality has to be coded additionally. Pros Strapi - as the name suggest - is an API builder tool which helps you to manage data that is being consumed by frontends and other apps. This functionality is done very well. Strapi provides hooks and cycles to modify data coming in and out of it. But these need to be programmatically configured. Good thing is the Strapi authentification layer and CDN for images. Cons As Strapi does not provide you with a Frontend it is hard to get the initial concept and add functionality. Every change in the Admin triggers a restart of Strapi and basically means downtime. Sometimes the database gets vacuumed while you try to work with endpoints. This can very frustrating. Same as the responses from Strapi which include nested objects and those are hard to orientate in while consuming the data. Reason for choosing Strapi Strapi included the concept of dynamic zones which are comparable to Content Blocks in other CMSs. Switched from [Wix](https://www.capterra.com/p/169007/Wix/)[Webflow](https://www.capterra.com/p/136159/Webflow/)[MODX](https://www.capterra.com/p/161662/MODX/)[WordPress](https://www.capterra.com/p/131687/WordPress/) I needed custom functionality and a good developer experience. Review Source GL Guillaume L. Full-Stack Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great for Landing pages" November 16, 2023 5.0 I have been using Strapi for 3 years and it is a product that I am trying to push to others everytime they need a solution. I mainly use Strapi for frontend site and I rarely use it as an API to an app. But for content management, Strapi beats products like Contentful and Sanity in my eyes because it is open source and you can host it anywhere you want. Pros To be able to create an API for landing pages in a matter of hours. I created many types of section for my landing and I could start integrating my frontend the next day. My site grew ever since and Strapi made it super easy to add more sections and evolve with time. Cons One of the main thing I don't like about Strapi is the fact that it doesn't have a good way to be updated easily. I am using a deployment system and I wish I could update it from the admin panel itself. I need to use the command line and to redeploy everytime there is an update. Updating something frequently should not be something negative, but it is with Strapi because I am always in need to keep it up to date. The only other thing, is the lack of Responsive on the admin panel. Switched from [WordPress](https://www.capterra.com/p/131687/WordPress/)[Sanity](https://www.capterra.com/p/199501/Sanity/)[Contentful](https://www.capterra.com/p/134266/Contentful/) I wanted a self hosted solution to keep control of where my data is stored. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Principal Software Development Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Strapi Experience" May 23, 2022 5.0 The overall experience was very nice , i used it get cms and backend in nodejs. very easy to use it . Best CMS. Pros 1\. It gives nice and clean UI CMS 2. regular update and bug fixes 3. auth apis come inbuilt and easy to customize 4. docs are very helpful 5. community is very nice 6. backend is in nodjs and can be customized 7. so many options for plugins and easy to add 8. develop the apis fast Cons 1\. No support for typescript we have to use javascript 2. no official plugins in vscode which helps in developing 3. the docs for publishing are not much helpful 4. Need some to get familier Switched from [Back4App](https://www.capterra.com/p/166477/Parse-Server/) strapi gives Cms and easy to customize . Gives auth apis prebuilt. Review Source OB Oscar B. CTO Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Saves me tons of time" April 26, 2024 5.0 Pros Easy setup, complete API manager. It saves you sooo much time compared to a "normal" node backend application. Cons The fact that Strapi has a "quick and dirty" image (and name) makes it harder to sell or mention it as part of a solution to a customer. Even though he/she may greatly benefit from it, it takes more than an average amout of convincing them Strapi can easily be considered to be coroporate grade material. Switched from [Firebase](https://www.capterra.com/p/160941/Firebase/) Firebase was too limited. The functions had a steap learning curve and security was hard to do properly. Review Source AM Akash M. Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "A perfect CMS for all our frontend code." October 18, 2021 4.0 This is one of best CMS out there in the market. Pros One of the most important feature was graph-ql end points, which was much needed adapter our frontend stack. Cons Doesn't have plugin ecosystem as that of wordpress Alternatives considered [Sanity](https://www.capterra.com/p/199501/Sanity/)[Contentful](https://www.capterra.com/p/134266/Contentful/) Reason for choosing Strapi We needed more freedom in our CMS. Switched from [WordPress](https://www.capterra.com/p/131687/WordPress/) We needed an headless solution which we could modify for our need. Review Source HT Haythem T. front end dev Information Technology and Services Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "wonderful headless cms" May 9, 2019 4.0 i was looking for a headless cms and i found strapi fit perfectly with what i need. Pros easy to use simple to setup and to configure support graphql Cons still in alpha no many plugins available Alternatives considered [WordPress](https://www.capterra.com/p/131687/WordPress/) Reason for choosing Strapi making wordpress working like a headless cms is quit complicated but with strapi it was like 2 minutes and my api was ready to be connected with my react frontend. Review Source AS Ashok S. Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Fantastic Open Source CMS" September 20, 2024 4.0 Overall experience with strapi is simply awesome Pros It is very user friendly and most important part is plugins. I love those plugins. Even there is a way for me to create a plugin. API customization is one another plus I would say and it is easier too. I was using strapi from 3.x.x till now. I'm really liked the way it evolved. Cons Review workflow is part of enterprise plan, which atleast I believe should be given in free plan with restriction, completely removing is kind of making the opensource user to completly staying away from the feature. Review Source YY Yekta Y. Frontend Developer Outsourcing/Offshoring Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Yekta's Review" December 20, 2023 5.0 Pros Automatic creation of API endpoints based on content types, Role Based Access Control, Authentication, Querying and Media Library features reduces the time of app development. Cons Some parts of the Strapi documentation are not clear. It may be necessary to search the forum and the internet for things that can be easily explained with an additional sentence in the documentation. Reason for choosing Strapi Community support, maintained by the team and plugins to enhance. I've researched other products and other products required more knowledge and configuration. Strapi required less system knowledge to configuration to develop and deploy. Review Source SH Sean H. Backend Engineer Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Strapi Review" October 22, 2023 5.0 Pros Ease of use and that it was JavaScript native. Cons The fact that every time a change is saved, it takes a long time for the server to restart. It needs to restart much much faster. Alternatives considered [Payload](https://www.capterra.com/p/218666/Payload-CMS/)[Statamic](https://www.capterra.com/p/183605/Statamic/) Review Source PAB Peter Aleksander B. Senior software developer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Amazing experience with Strapi in production" December 28, 2020 5.0 When you need to tinker around with the source, the official documentation has all the information written in a legible and concise way. At our company, we have created everything from custom views, modified the branding, colors, etc. To put it in perspective: we had a detailed plan on how our API should look like, and we knew what the CMS system needs to have. From start until we were able to deploy to testing phase, it took less than an hour. We created all the custom views and branding modifications, deployed to production in a single day. Pros How easy it is to get started. You literally have a single CLI command, go through the process of setting up the connection to the database, and you're ready to work. From there, the UI/UX is great. During the development, it's important that prototying is FAST, which it is. The customization of views and data types is just the cherry on top. Support for GraphQL comes in form of a plugin that you install with a single click. That's it. Now you have GraphQL. In a single click. The documentation is automatically generates for your API is concise and to the point. Cons I'm waiting for out-of-the-box TypeScript support. It's planned, so I'm not worried. Sometimes, the UI shows an error when updating the component, even though the operation was successful. You just refresh the page and it works. Review Source UK Uday K. Founder Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great open source CMS product!" October 12, 2023 5.0 Pros Easy to configure and use for content mgmt (blog articles) Cons I wish I could add/insert/embed images within the content. Review Source BB Bernardo B. Developer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Very easy to user for beginners" April 2, 2019 5.0 I'm loving It Pros Very user friendly and easy to use , for a beginner who want's to start developing api's this is by far one of my favorites Cons So far nothing nothing made me dislike this software Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Automation technician Information Technology and Services Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Creating your own API is really easy " March 7, 2019 5.0 I wanted to develop a personal program and a friend of mine told me about strapi : you don't really care about the backend ? So go to use Strapi and indeed, Strapi helped me a lot and I earn so much time with it! Pros The easy and really quick way to create content type and data and access to it with Postman. Cons The little bug about default value for enumerated type. Review Source TL Thomas L. Web Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Big Headless CMS Rocket" February 4, 2021 5.0 Pros Easy integration and flexibility to bild a high class user experience. Simple database configuration with many choices (Mongo, Postgres, and MySQL) Cons I would like the ability to translate content. It's on roadmap! Review Source RHF Renan Henrique F. CTO Computer Software Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Easy of use, fast and reliable API creator / CMS Headless " February 25, 2019 5.0 Pros Fast and easy to learn and deploy. Concise code and reliable. Nice way to introduct my team to JS API. Cons Should have a "front-end" view with examples os all created APIs. Review Source GB Gregory B. Project Manager Design Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Best Headless CMS" April 29, 2021 5.0 Pros The best headless CMS, perfect for any kind of use I highly recommend. Cons Nothing to say, the tool is simply perfect. Review Source BV Bruno V. Web Developer Online Media Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "What else?" February 19, 2019 5.0 Strapi to the Moon ! Pros Simple as it. You will.. you get ! No need deeply knowledge of anykind of language. First try and adopted.. Cons Need more features for a real Headless production CMS.. But in a few months, Strapi will be my best friend forever :) Review Source OA Omar A. Software engineer Computer Networking Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "One of the best framework/CMS i ever used" February 18, 2019 5.0 100/100 Pros Its easy to do what ever you want plus its free Cons Nothing, For now I dont have any cons .. Review Source GO Gabriele O. Founder, CEO, FullStack Dev. Alternative Medicine Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Strapi wins the HeadlessCMS war" August 16, 2024 5.0 Absolutely amazing Open-Source product. I often recommend it to colleagues and friends. Pros \- Perfect product for any developer or entrepreneur jumping from idea to testing. - Quick setup and launch - Awesome Dashboard that gives you a great overview of your db & data. - Ready-made Auth-system Cons \- Customization can be quite challenging and documentation on Services & Controllers needs to be improved. - Lots of free plugins available from the community but few are maintained or updated. Review Source Sangam K. Full Stack Web Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "I'm saving hours daily" October 23, 2023 5.0 Pros Earlier I used to create my APIs on ExpressJS and it used to take hell lot of time in creating and testing them. But with Strapi I can create any sort of APIs in just 5-10 minutes. It's that easy!Role Based Access Control, that too in the free plan is a super-power to any business or developer. I really loved it. And now as a freelancer I can create almost any type of web-apps - be it CRM, HRM, Hotel Management system or anything with ease. Cons I wish there were in built aggregator functions in Strapi. That will help developers write custom services and controllers very easily. Additionally, there should be some extra options to change Strapi Branding. Right now we can only change the logo. We should be able to update the color scheme, Brand name and login page template. These additions will be really great! Review Source Rikki T. Principal Engineer Hospitality Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "A good core product with numerous small downsides." January 24, 2023 4.0 I used it self-hosted for a couple of personal projects on v3. I had a really good time during setup and for a short time after. The migration to v4 was painful. v4 itself doesn't feel like a big enough upgrade or a robust enough product for it to have been worth it, and each update brings some sort of breaking change. Pros It's really easy to create a data model and have a usable API and admin panel for it. This feature is so good that it's almost worth putting up with all the snags. Cons The migration of code from v3 to v4 codebases was painful. It took several months for basic tooling (like database migration) to be available, and over a year later it is still not as good as it should have been.Migration between versions is not easy (upgrade versions of several dependencies, then find blog posts about migrations, which often ask you to run scripts on your code/ database). This could be automated, surely. Documentation for features often covers only one usecase, and is written in blogpost style. Even on their own documentation (not the guides)Plugins are not simple to write and the documentation on it is not clear. You can allegedly use TypeScript to write plugins but the plugin interface types are not well defined, so you're kind of on your own.You can't use Yarn v3+ with it.Deployment is not straightforward, I guess this is an incentive to use their paid service. Reason for choosing Strapi Open source, JavaScript ecosystem Review Source Similar Products Featured