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Challenges with Dato CMS

Despite its strengths, Dato CMS may pose issues, particularly for projects requiring extensive customisation or specific feature sets, as it might lack depth in certain areas compared to other CMS platforms. We've never been huge believers in "drag-and-drop" schema builders because they lack inherent validation and extensibility.

The pricing model, which scales with the required functionality and traffic usage, could be a limitation for startups or smaller businesses. Additionally, the learning curve associated with its API-driven environment might pose challenges to non-developers. Some users may also need additional plugins or custom development to fully meet their needs.

Key Pain Points

•Limited customisation options
•Feature depth variability
•Pricing based on traffic
•Can be costly for startups
•Steeper learning curve
•API knowledge required
•Need for additional plugins
•Custom development needed
•Limited feature set scalability
•Non-developer challenges
•Potential integration issues
•Dependency on third-party tools

Benefits of Contentful

With over 42.9% market share and more than 14,000 companies using it, Contentful is one of the most popular headless CMS choices among our customers. And why not?

It's built for structured freedom, which lets you create once and reuse forever from its huge repository. Meaning, no more copy-paste déjà vu or hunting through a maze of components. It's also one of the only CMS with first-party support for A/B testing and personalization. The plugin ecosystem is vast, and it keeps developers happy and content teams nimble with SEO, internationalisation, validation, and more.

And for the editors who like to see it as they build it, the live side-by-side preview makes every change visible in real time.

Key advantages

API-first design

Contentful was built for APIs from day one, which means your content plugs cleanly into apps, websites, and mobile.

Developer-friendly flexibility

Schemas, content models, and references can be tuned however you like. If your stack is anything beyond “cookie-cutter,” Contentful won’t get in your way.

User-friendly interface

Editors enjoy using it. Clean UI, quick search, structured fields, and no “where does this go again?” confusion.

Extensive integration capabilities

Plug in analytics, eCommerce, automation, and translation. Contentful plays nicely with almost anything. And if something isn’t supported yet, you can wire it up yourself without hacking the platform apart.

High scalability

From a tiny blog to a fire-hose of global traffic, Contentful easily scales. You can completely avoid surprise outages, or “please hold while the CMS catches up.”

Cloud-based architecture

You don't have to install, patch, or maintain anything. It’s fast, globally distributed, and always up to date. Your content team can ship from anywhere without a DevOps babysitter.