Gatsby
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy if your team already writes React and you're building a content-heavy site on a headless CMS.
Comparison
Gatsby vs Astro
Gatsby lands on Depends, and Astro lands on Worth it.
Astro
Worth it
Confidence: Medium
Use it if you have developers and a content-heavy site . it's free, open source, and developers call it fantastic.
| Compare | Gatsby | Astro |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Worth it |
| Best for | React teams shipping content sites | Content-heavy marketing sites |
| Who it's not for | Non-developers wanting a simple website . massively overkill | Non-technical teams wanting a website builder |
| Privacy | No breaches disclosed; several 2023 CVEs in the framework and plugins, since patched, with a public security policy.⁵ | Active CVE stream in 2025-2026 . SSRF via host-header handling and XSS in image endpoints; patches shipped via GitHub advisories. |
| Support quality | No support-quality evidence in sources | No support evidence found |
| Public sentiment | Developers praise Gatsby's speed, but community threads increasingly question its momentum versus Astro and.¹ | Developer sentiment is strongly positive . called fantastic and able to do it all . with ongoing debate about when it's the wrong fit. |
| Biggest gotcha | Legacy Gatsby Cloud plans moved to Netlify; re-check pricing before committing.³ | Free software, but the real cost is developer time . agencies charge real money for builds |
Pick Gatsby when
- React teams shipping content sites
- Headless CMS front-ends (Sanity, Contentful)
- Performance-critical marketing sites
- Blogs and docs at scale
When Gatsby is not a fit
- Non-developers wanting a simple website . massively overkill
- Small teams without React/GraphQL experience
- Dynamic, server-rendered app-style sites
- Teams wanting the most actively growing ecosystem
Pick Astro when
- Content-heavy marketing sites
- Blogs and docs sites
- Dev teams leaving WordPress or Gatsby
- Mixed static + dynamic pages
When Astro is not a fit
- Non-technical teams wanting a website builder
- No-code founders . use Squarespace or Framer instead
- App-heavy products where Next.js fits better
- Teams needing vendor SLAs and support contracts
Sources
- Gatsby Reviews . G2g2.comreview
review
- Security at Gatsbygatsbyjs.comofficial
- Gatsby-Contentful Sales Guidegatsbyjs.comofficial
- CVE-2023-30548 . NVDnvd.nist.govsecurity
- CVE-2023-34238 . CVE.orgcve.orgsecurity
security
- gatsby . Snyk vulnerability databasesecurity.snyk.iosecurity
review
- Gatsby Raises $28M Series Bgatsbyjs.comnews
- Gatsby vs Next.js vs Jekyll vs Nuxt.jsgatsbyjs.comofficial
- Astro . official siteastro.buildofficial
- Why Microsoft Chose Astro (case study)astro.buildofficial
- Astro . When to Use & Alternatives (Paralect)paralect.comreview