Storyblok
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Strong fit for mid-size and enterprise teams with developers plus non-technical editors who need a visual headless CMS.
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Storyblok vs Contentful
Storyblok and Contentful both land on Depends.
Contentful
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy it if you are a developer-led team shipping structured content across many channels at enterprise scale.
| Compare | Storyblok | Contentful |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | Marketing teams editing without developer help | Multi-channel content at scale |
| Who it's not for | Solo founders or blogs . a free tier or static site is plenty | Personal blogs and small marketing sites |
| Privacy | ISO 27001 certified with a trust center, but public CVEs exist in official SDK packages.⁷ | ISO 27001 certified with a HackerOne bug bounty and customer DPA; one 2020 XSS CVE and recurring API-key leak reports, no public breach found. |
| Support quality | No reliable evidence in reviewed sources | Evidence truncated; no clear support signal |
| Public sentiment | Developers generally rate Storyblok favorably against Contentful and competitors, with pricing hikes the loudest complaint.¹ | Reviewers praise Contentful's flexible content modeling but repeatedly flag pricing escalation and hidden costs as the top downside.11 |
| Biggest gotcha | Reported 6x price increase case ('cannabis' classification); scrutinize renewal and usage terms before committing² | Pricing escalates with usage; buyers report hidden costs beyond the sticker price. |
Pick Storyblok when
- Marketing teams editing without developer help
- Composable Next.js/headless stacks
- Multi-site and multi-brand organizations
- Teams needing ISO 27001 compliance
When Storyblok is not a fit
- Solo founders or blogs . a free tier or static site is plenty
- Small teams on fixed budgets . usage-based pricing can spike
- Teams wanting flat, predictable annual costs
- Self-hosting purists . Payload gives open-source control instead
Pick Contentful when
- Multi-channel content at scale
- Developer-led product teams
- Enterprise composable content operations
- Brands with complex structured content
When Contentful is not a fit
- Personal blogs and small marketing sites
- Non-technical teams without developers
- Price-sensitive buyers . costs escalate with usage
- Guess: teams wanting visual plug-and-play page editing
Sources
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- Storyblok raising prices. Alternatives?reddit.comreview
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- Storyblok Free Tierstoryblok.comofficial
- ISO 27001 certified CMSstoryblok.comsecurity
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- CMS Vulnerability Report (CVE-2024-47819)anything.agencysecurity
- Storyblok raises $80M Series Ctechcrunch.comnews
- Storyblok Reviews . AWS Marketplaceaws.amazon.comreview
- Contentful Reviews | G2g2.comreview
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- Contentful Reviews | Capterracapterra.comreview
- Contentful Pricingcontentful.comofficial
