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Kontent.ai vs Contentful

Looking for an alternative to Contentful? Kontent.ai’s headless CMS offers both the flexibility and control required to smoothly scale global operations—without unexpected costs. Explore how we compare.

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How Kontent.ai stands out

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Ease of use

An intuitive interface built for non-technical users. Minimal learning curve.

More complex interface with a higher learning curve and less focus on the authoring experience.

Content governance

Advanced governance capabilities, including flexible workflows, roles and permissions, audit logs, and collections.

Offers governance features but lacks some advanced controls and detailed versioning.

Workflow analytics

Mission Control gives every user a bird's-eye view of their project, helping them identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement.

No built-in analytics of content workflows.

AI enhancements

AI Accelerators speed up work across all aspects of the content lifecycle: from automated tagging of content and assets, to writing assistance (including text summarization, changing voice and tone, etc.), to automatically translating content, and enforcing brand and content guidelines.

Contentful provides AI text, image, and content type generators, but does not provide full AI support across the entire content lifecycle.

Customer support

24x7x365 live support available for all customers, with an industry-leading customer satisfaction.

The level of support varies based on subscription level.

Pricing

A flexible pricing plan for all customers. Pricing is based on your actual usage, with volume-based discounts. No complicated tiers or add-ons.

Three pricing tiers with hidden pricing for their highest plan, plus an additional pricing structure for their visual builder.

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Content publishing from months to minutes
Content updates within seconds
30% increase in production time

Create and publish content faster

Content management with workflow steps and content items

Organize and maintain all your content in one system

Kontent.ai helps you model, maintain, update, and optimize your single source of content truth, making everything secure, yet easy to work with. 

Create and collaborate together without hassle

The content creation process in Kontent.ai is designed with authors in mind. From creating the first draft to selecting the perfect visuals, your teams are set up to succeed. 

omnichannel publishing

Remove bottlenecks and publish great content, faster

Kontent.ai helps you bring trustworthy and resonating content to market with approvals and publishing workflows that are flexible, automated, and governed.

Get total visibility over all operations

Mission Control helps you monitor everything happening with your teams and processes, so you can find and fix any bottlenecks in your operations fast. 

Deliver future-proof, omnichannel experiences 

Kontent.ai supports development teams to work faster, with the tools and technology freedom to build experiences that look and feel great on any channel. Now and in the future.

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The reason why we wanted to go with Kontent.ai over any other CMS, and the biggest benefit, is that Kontent.ai is more than just a storage facility. With Kontent.ai, we can keep documents alive, keep them in one space, and customize them as they need to be.

Andrew Bate

Studio Manager, The JG Travel Group
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We’ve been ambitious in terms of our development over the last couple of years and we’re still growing. It’s reassuring to know we won’t be stuck with a CMS that we’ll outgrow. There’s so much potential with Kontent.ai that we can take advantage of.

Tom Lainchbury

Digital Optimisation Specialist, Newcastle Building Society

With Kontent.ai, we have managed to move content marketing from a global level to the local level. The marketing departments in all our countries are able to create or edit their own content. We’re now able to do online content marketing in 24 countries and languages in an efficient and structured way.

Davey van Ommen

Online Content Specialist, Kramp

With Kontent.ai, we built reusable content elements for countries, cities, and airports. Now, everything is managed in one place, and any update is instantly reflected across our website, app, and emails—saving us a ton of time, especially with seven languages to support.

Vincent van der Laan

Full-stack Developer, Transavia Airlines

With AI in Kontent.ai, we can work more efficiently, and produce work on a greater scale. It’s faster to create text, to translate it, and to generate more variants, which helps us to create more personalized content that resonates with our customers.

Marc Lamothe

Director of Web Technology, American Bath Group

Reduce costs and save money with Kontent.ai

Choosing the right CMS involves more than just the license fee. Development and content production costs, infrastructure fees, and support can change the calculation significantly. Check out our Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator to better understand the bigger picture.

Solutions made for
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Education

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Education

  • Empower educators to manage content
  • Build and manage student portals
  • Improve the student experience 
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Travel & tourism

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Travel & tourism

  • Provide real-time content updates to customers
  • Keep content compliant with local regulations
  • Translate and localize content for all audiences
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Manufacturing

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Manufacturing

  • Create support and documentation portals for customers and employees
  • Protect access to sensitive content
  • Give content teams independence, without IT reliance
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Healthcare

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Healthcare

  • Achieve HIPAA-compliant content management
  • Provide instant and accurate healthcare information to patients
  • Keep content consistent across channels
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Government

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Government

  • Deliver compliant content across all channels
  • Enable content teams to work independently
  • Achieve digital transformation goals
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Insurance

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Insurance

  • Ensure accurate and compliant content
  • Create new content experiences in minutes
  • Localize content for all your audiences
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Retail

  • Manage all content from a single content hub
  • Give content teams independence to create
  • Publish to any channel from one CMS
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Food & beverage

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Food & beverage

  • Deliver accurate, reliable content
  • Manage multiple sites and channels
  • Free up developers for other projects
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Sport

  • Deliver real-time content updates across all channels
  • Support multiple sites and brands from one CMS
  • Give creative teams full independence
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Software & IT

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Software & IT

  • Create a single source of content truth
  • Create once, publish to any channel
  • Free up developer time, give creative teams independence
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Banking & finance

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Banking & finance

  • Keep content compliant and accurate
  • Localize content across channels 
  • Restrict access to sensitive content or protected portals
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Nonprofit

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Nonprofit

  • Create digital experiences in minutes
  • Publish content across all channels
  • Localize content for your audiences

Loved by customers and analysts

Kontent.ai helped a composite organization deploy new content faster by 90% and achieve a 320% ROI in the commissioned Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study by Forrester Consulting.

Kontent.ai has been voted a leader in Web Content Management for 6 years straight on G2, a platform based on real user reviews. Users also love our ease of use, flexibility, and support.

Our commitment to security and data privacy goes far beyond basic requirements, and includes SOC 2 certification, ISO 27001, 27001 SoA, and 27017 certifications, GDPR compliance, HIPPA compliance, CSA STAR recognition, GLBA compliance, and more.

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