Content management systems for marketing sites · RankedStrapi
Strapi is an open source headless content management system released under the MIT license · strapi.io ↗
Why models recommend it
“Lean toward Headless platforms like Contentful, Sanity, or Strapi (provided you have the devs to support them)”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Scale-constrained question · alternative
“Headless CMS (e.g., Sanity, Contentful, Strapi) + Modern Frontend”Kimi K2 · Paraphrase question · alternative
“look at Sanity, Contentful, or Strapi”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · alternative
“Need self-hosting/open source? Strapi.”GPT-5.4 mini · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Pure implementations of Strapi, Sanity, or Contentful (when set up without visual page-building tools) ... Why to be cautious”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“custom CMS built from scratch (e.g., using Strapi as a base but heavily locked down), be very cautious”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Strapi, over the 27 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 1 | View → | |
| 23 | 4 | View → | |
| 22 | 3 | View → | |
| 21 | 0 | View → | |
| 19 | 8 | View → | |
| 16 | 2 | View → | |
| 16 | 1 | View → | |
| 14 | 1 | View → | |
| 13 | 1 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Strapi's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- developers
- Price stated
- Starter $35 per project / month; Pro $90 per project / month; Business $450 per project / month
- Starting price
- 35
- Free plan or trial
- Try live demo
- Certifications
- GDPR, SOC 2 Type II
- Customers named
- Tesco Technology, Airbus
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 15 of the 27 answers that named Strapi and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty of the forty domain citations in answers naming Strapi came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,215 | 8 | 2026-09-23 | SEO, Mobile apps | |
| Template or tool | 81 | 1 | 2026-09-24 | SEO | |
| Comparison | 76 | 2 | 2026-09-24 | SEO | |
| Glossary or explainer | 39 | 2 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Report or ebook | 35 | 0 | 2022-07-05 | ||
| Conference or event | 18 | 0 | 2026-01-22 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 8 | 0 | 2026-06-26 | Direct mail | |
| Podcast or video | 4 | 0 | 2022-07-19 | ||
| News or press | 3 | undated | |||
| Case study | 2 | 0 | 2025-06-13 |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page strapi.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name SEO (15); 0 name the category the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.