Strapi Reviews & Product Details

For us, as a non-profit organisation with limited resources, Strapi offers one of the best solutions on the market when it comes to headless CMS:

- It’s easy to install and configure

- It can be deployed on a PaaS (e.g. Heroku), but even better, we simply use the Strapi Cloud to deploy our instance at an incredible price.

- We retain full control over UI, extensions, data and models

- Maximum flexibility through extensions, i.e. use the HTML editor of your choice

- It is open source

- Excellent documentation - most questions have already been asked and answered

- GraphQL API:

- It’s an extension maintained by the Strapi team

- Since Strapi version 5, the GraphQL API has improved immensely to provide an excellent developer experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unfortunately, there is no built-in HTML editor, forcing us to install one via an extension. The standard editor is using JSON abstract syntax tree (AST) and, if you are running a NextJS instance e.g., you will need an extra package to convert AST to HTML. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Strapi is very easy to setup locally as a developer to begin experimenting with. The documentation quickly guides you through the steps to get started, but also is thorough when you need a bit more detail (like understanding supported query parameters with API requests). Within an hour I had our admin panel deployed to Strapi cloud and added test content, and was then pulling that content with the API minutes later. It was simple to configure API access to content as well - allowing certain collection types to be available without credentials, while restricting others. Our team began using it later on that same day I deployed it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We don't have any dislikes with Strapi at the moment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Strapi is overall very easy for developers and users. It has sensible and easy-to-integrate querying whether it's via fetch or GraphQL, and their default data modeling tools solve most of the use cases I've had without much customization. I use it for just about every client I work with now, provided they actually have content to publish. The customer support is also very helpful. While on a larger corporate engagement, which was my first project using Strapi, our project managers reached out to them often and they were always responsive and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a CMS, I expect to see more user-friendly rich text entry than what you get with Strapi Basic. Sure, it's easy enough to use other plugins to have a more robust rich text editor, but if Strapi were to make that more easily available, it would be the perfect solution for any business's editorial needs right out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Strapi’s flexibility and customization options are what we appreciate the most. The headless architecture allows us to structure content as needed, offering a robust API that integrates seamlessly with our other systems. Being open-source, we have full control over deployment, and the community support has been invaluable. Additionally, its user-friendly interface makes it easy for non-technical staff to manage content without much training, which boosts our productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Strapi offers a lot of customization, setting it up and maintaining it on-premise can require significant development time, especially when it comes to scaling. The admin panel, though intuitive, could be more feature-rich in terms of out-of-the-box analytics and user roles. Also, we’ve encountered some challenges with plugin compatibility, which sometimes slows down our workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User friendly tool. Covers everything a CMS needs. It's easy to configure and comes with a helpful documentation. The integrations are very powerful and save a lot of development efforts. Great scalable price plans with no restrictions to the amount of locales. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some cosmetics such as that the admin account can't be transferred. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use and Flexibility!

Cloud solution works really well.

Support is quick and reliable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One time its an opensource project updates are constant and sometimes unstable.

For very small businesses might be expensive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Strapi has a very intuitive interface, which has helped both our technical and non-technical teams. The roles in the admin panel are very useful because whenever I deploy something for the non-technical members to use, they ask me, "Does this allow me to break something unintentionally?" With the roles in the Strapi panel, I can disable everything but content editing, and they can use it without any fear. Another aspect worth mentioning is their customer support. I reached out to them on LinkedIn and via email. The email support was not very good; they didn’t understand what we needed, but the LinkedIn support was exceptional. They quickly communicated and gave us exactly what we needed. We currently use Strapi weekly, and it is reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Strapi's implementation and integration process is straightforward and developer-friendly, a point of consideration is the separation between development and production environments. Content created and managed in the development doensn't automatically propagate to the production environment, an you need to re-enter all the content again in the production. Another thing is their e-mail support. I think they have a "customer success manager" or something similar, a person who is not very familiar with the technological aspects of the product. They don't really understand and help with technical problems. Given that this platform is more geared towards developers than end-users, I would like to see a technical person in the support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The framework itself and easy of developing and deploying custom plugins.

Strapi is open source and very easy to learn. Its the fastest way to deploy api's and add security layers to it.

Best part is that it has a huge community support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deploying strapi is tricky if you are self hosting this tool.

Few things you might need to take care of like using pm2 and deploying instances of strapi on different ports to better support and decouple heavy processes that needs to run on multiple threads on a server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As we transitioned our streaming service from Vimeo to an in-house solution, we evaluated numerous headless CMS options for managing our content. After careful consideration, we chose Strapi.

Strapi has been a game-changer for my recent project. Its intuitive admin panel and user-friendly interface make managing content a breeze. The customization options are impressive, and the built-in authentication system is straightforward and secure.

The support for both GraphQL and RESTful APIs is excellent, with auto-generated documentation and endpoints that save time and ensure consistency. Security is robust, with built-in authentication and role-based access control.

Being open-source, Strapi benefits from a vibrant community and regular updates. It's flexible, powerful, and efficient, making it a top choice for any developer looking for a reliable headless CMS. Highly recommended! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One area for improvement is file management through the API, which currently lacks some basic features, such as changing the title. I hope future versions will expand on this functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have found Strapi simple yet powerful. We have another enterprise CMS that is behemoth and very easy to get tied into its proprietary features. Strapi so far has given me a simple headless CMS that allows my apps to stay largely CMS agnostic - exactly what I wanted.

Its interface is intuitive and makes content creation and management easy, even for less technical team members. I have bene impressed with the flexibility in API usage. My devs have found integration really quite fun and straightforward, largely thanks to its well-documented APIs and straightforward customization options.

Strapi - the company has proven responsive to user base. The development team appears to be well-focused on enhancing the platform by implementing features that add actually the most value. There is a solid community around this product and, as such its pretty easy to get input from other users.

We don't typically do a ton of cloud deployment, but we are running Strapi cloud pro and I could not be happier with it. Deployment and management are simple and reduce the burden on my team. Really excellent cloud implementation - definitely exceeded my expectations, but devs can spin up a local instance in a minute or 2 for their work.

Really solid product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The recent (beta 5) introduction of versioning and further simplification of the API is an example of Strapi's responsiveness. Lack of these 2 features in version 4 would have been my only gripe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.