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How Leiho compares.
Factual, side by side, with sources. Every tool here is good at something: these pages say what, and when Leiho is the better fit.
| Hosting | Open source | Pricing | Visual editing | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leiho | Your own WordPress, on any PHP host. Your front end stays wherever it is. | Yes, GPL-2.0-or-later (plugin and bridge). | Free. No seats, no usage limits. | Yes: editors click text and images on the real front end, inside wp-admin, and it updates as they type. | |
| Sanity | Both, partly: content is stored in Sanity's hosted Content Lake (SaaS only); the Studio app can be self-hosted or deployed on Sanity. | Studio is MIT (open source); the Content Lake backend is proprietary and paid by usage. | Free plan: yes ($0, up to 20 seats, 10k documents). Entry paid plan: Growth, $15 per seat/month, with pay-as-you-go usage above included quotas. | Yes: the Presentation tool shows the real front end inside Studio, and clicking an element opens the matching field (quickstarts for Next.js, Astro, Remix, SvelteKit, Nuxt). | Compare → |
| Strapi | Both: self-hosted (Community, Growth, Enterprise licenses) or Strapi Cloud (managed). | Community Edition is MIT; Growth/Enterprise features and Strapi Cloud are paid. | Free: yes (self-hosted Community, unlimited users). Entry paid: self-hosted Growth $45/month (3 users, +$15/user); Strapi Cloud Starter $35/month per project (no free cloud plan). | Partial: Preview shows the front end in the admin; Live Preview (Growth/Enterprise) adds side-by-side view and experimental double-click-to-edit. | Compare → |
| Contentful | SaaS only. | Proprietary. | Free plan: yes ($0, 10 users, 2 locales, 100K API calls/month). Entry paid plan: Lite, $300/month (20 users, 3 locales, 1M API calls), with overage billing. (page rate-limited during research; figures from Contentful search results). | Yes: Live Preview with inspector mode adds Edit buttons on the real front end that jump to the source field; Studio Experiences offers drag-and-drop page composition with registered React components. | Compare → |
| Storyblok | SaaS only. | Proprietary. | Free plan: yes (Starter, 1 seat). Entry paid plan: Growth, $99/month billed monthly ($90.75 billed annually), 5 seats included, extra seats $15. | Yes: the Visual Editor embeds the real website in an iframe; clicking an element opens the matching block, and editing a block scrolls to it. | Compare → |
| Payload CMS | Self-hosted (any Node.js host, one-click templates for Vercel and Cloudflare); Enterprise can be hosted 'with Payload'. No public cloud plan is listed. | MIT; paid Enterprise tier for extra features. | Free: yes (self-hosted, MIT). No self-serve paid plan is listed; Enterprise is quote-based ('Get a Demo'). | Partial: Live Preview renders the front end in an iframe in the admin and updates as you type; an on-page 'point, click, edit' Visual Editor is listed as an Enterprise feature marked 'Coming Soon'. | Compare → |
| Directus | Both: self-hosted (Docker) or Directus Cloud. | Source-available Monospace Sustainable Core License 1.0 (MSCL-1.0-GPL; converts to GPL-3.0 after four years, restricts competing commercial use); free self-hosting under the Open Innovation Grant for organizations under $5M revenue and under 50 employees. | Free tier: no permanent cloud free tier (14-day trial); self-hosting free for eligible small organizations. Entry paid plan: Core, $89/month billed yearly or $99/month monthly (3 seats). | Yes: the Visual Editor module lets editors change content directly on the rendered website (front end adds a library and data-directus attributes). | Compare → |
| Prismic | SaaS only. | Proprietary. | Free plan: yes (1 user). Entry paid plan: Starter, $10/month per repository billed annually (3 users). | Partial: the Page Builder shows live-updating slice previews while editing and full-site previews with a toolbar; no on-page click-to-edit is documented. | Compare → |
| TinaCMS | Both: TinaCloud (hosted backend) or self-hosted backend on a Node.js serverless host. | Apache-2.0; TinaCloud is a paid service with a free tier. | Free plan: yes (2 users). Entry paid plan: Team, $29/month billed monthly or $290/year (~$24/month), 3 users included. | Yes: the site and the editor run side by side and the page updates live as you type (React, via the useTina hook). | Compare → |
| Builder.io | SaaS only (content and editor hosted by Builder; your site runs on your own hosting). | Proprietary platform (framework SDKs are open source; exact license not confirmed). | Free plan: yes (1 user, 60 credits/month). Entry paid plan: Pro, $24 per user/month. | Yes: drag-and-drop Visual Editor renders pages with your registered front-end components (React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, Qwik and more). | Compare → |
| Hygraph | SaaS only. | Proprietary. | Free plan: yes (Hobby, 3 seats). Entry paid plan: Growth, from $199/month (10 seats). | Partial: Live Preview plus Click to Edit (beta) adds Edit buttons on tagged front-end elements that jump to the field in Hygraph Studio. | Compare → |
| DatoCMS | SaaS only. | Proprietary. | Free plan: yes (300 records, 10GB/month bandwidth). Entry paid plan: Professional, €149/month billed annually or €199/month monthly (10 collaborators). | Yes: click-to-edit overlays on the draft site plus a side-by-side 'Visual' tab in DatoCMS, on all current plans. | Compare → |
| Decap CMS | Self-hosted (a single-page admin app in your site; you bring auth/backend); paid Decap Turbo add-on offers hosted auth. | MIT. | Free: yes (MIT). Paid: Decap Turbo extension (price not confirmed). | No on-site editing: the editor shows a live preview pane next to the form fields. | Compare → |
| Keystatic | Self-hosted (runs inside your Astro, Next.js or Remix app; local or GitHub storage); optional Keystatic Cloud for GitHub auth and image optimization. | MIT. | Free: yes (MIT, local/GitHub mode). Keystatic Cloud pricing: not confirmed. | No on-site editing: content is edited in an admin UI (WYSIWYG fields) or directly in files. | Compare → |
| Webflow (CMS) | SaaS only (sites hosted by Webflow; content also available via the Data API). | Proprietary. | Free plan: yes (Starter site plan). Entry plan with CMS: Premium site plan, $25/month billed yearly or $39/month monthly (20,000 CMS items, 40 collections); Workspace seats billed separately. | Yes, for Webflow-built sites: content and design are edited visually on the canvas; it does not edit a separate Next.js/Astro front end. | Compare → |
| Headless WordPress (ACF + WPGraphQL) | Self-hosted (any PHP/MySQL host or managed WordPress host). | WordPress GPL-2.0-or-later; WPGraphQL GPL-3.0; ACF free version GPL, ACF PRO paid. | Free: yes (WordPress, WPGraphQL, WPGraphQL for ACF, ACF free). Paid: ACF PRO Personal $49/year for 1 site (repeater, options pages, etc.). | No: editors use wp-admin forms; WordPress preview does not render the decoupled front end without custom work. | Compare → |
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