- Mature enterprise governance, roles and multi-space setup.
- Large app marketplace and integration ecosystem.
- Globally CDN-delivered content APIs with no infrastructure to manage.
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Leiho vs Contentful
Enterprise SaaS headless content platform with APIs, a web app for editors, and a component-based Studio. Leiho takes another route: your content stays in WordPress, and editors click the real page of your own front end to change it.
LeihoContentful
Hosting Your own WordPress, on any PHP host. Your front end stays wherever it is. SaaS only.
Open source Yes, GPL-2.0-or-later (plugin and bridge). Proprietary.
Pricing Free. No seats, no usage limits. 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).
Visual editing Yes: editors click text and images on the real front end, inside wp-admin, and it updates as they type. 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.
Content model Leiho Collections (schema builder or leiho.schema.json), or your existing ACF fields. Both (web UI, plus migration scripts/CLI via the Management API).
AI Writing with your brand context on every text field, through WordPress’s own AI connectors (WordPress 7.0+). AI Actions: template or custom prompts for translation, rewriting, SEO metadata, alt text, runnable in bulk (availability by plan: not confirmed).
MCP server Yes, through the official WordPress MCP Adapter: agents read content and write drafts only. Yes, official @contentful/mcp-server.
Localization Built in, field by field: one entry holds every language, fields are translatable or shared, and AI or agents (MCP) translate what is missing. Yes, built-in locales (count limited per plan).
SEO and AI search Built in: each collection maps its fields to schema.org, description and FAQ. Leiho serves JSON-LD, llms.txt and every page as Markdown, in every language. No built-in SEO fields: Contentful's guide has you model meta title and description. AI Actions can draft meta descriptions. JSON-LD, llms.txt and Markdown are left to the front end.
Checked on 5 November 2026 from each vendor’s site. Prices and plans change: follow the sources below.
Where Contentful shines
Where Leiho differs
- Your content stays in a WordPress you host, not in a vendor’s cloud.
- Free and GPL for every site: no seats, plans or usage limits to watch.
- Editors keep WordPress: their login, roles, media library and plugins.
- Publishing follows your deployment, from a build hook to GitHub Actions or a self-hosted Coolify.
Choose Contentful if…
Larger organizations that want a fully managed, enterprise-grade content platform and can budget for SaaS pricing.
Choose Leiho if…
Your team or your clients already know WordPress, you want them to edit the real page of a Next.js, Astro, Nuxt or SvelteKit site, and you’d rather not pay per seat or move content to a vendor’s cloud.
Can I move from Contentful to Leiho?
There is no automatic importer from Contentful. Leiho entries are WordPress posts, so content can be brought in with WordPress import tools or a script using Leiho’s PHP API. Your front-end components usually stay the same: only the data source and the annotations change.
Do I need WordPress?
Yes. Leiho is a WordPress plugin: WordPress stores the content and runs the back office. Any PHP host works, and your front end stays separate.
Edit the real site.
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