--- title: "Leiho vs DatoCMS: headless CMS comparison" description: "SaaS headless CMS with a GraphQL Content Delivery API, modular content blocks and built-in image CDN. Leiho takes another route: your content stays in WordPress, and editors click the real page of your own front end to change it." url: https://leiho.dev/compare/datocms lang: en updated: 2026-11-04 --- Compare # Leiho vs DatoCMS SaaS headless CMS with a GraphQL Content Delivery API, modular content blocks and built-in image CDN. Leiho takes another route: your content stays in WordPress, and editors click the real page of your own front end to change it. | | Leiho | DatoCMS | | --- | --- | --- | | 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 (300 records, 10GB/month bandwidth). Entry paid plan: Professional, €149/month billed annually or €199/month monthly (10 collaborators). | | Visual editing | Yes: editors click text and images on the real front end, inside wp-admin, and it updates as they type. | Yes: click-to-edit overlays on the draft site plus a side-by-side 'Visual' tab in DatoCMS, on all current plans. | | Content model | Leiho Collections (schema builder or leiho.schema.json), or your existing ACF fields. | UI (models built in Settings; also scriptable via the Content Management API). | | AI | Writing with your brand context on every text field, through WordPress’s own AI connectors (WordPress 7.0+). | AI content translation and AI image tagging. | | MCP server | Yes, through the official WordPress MCP Adapter: agents read content and write drafts only. | Yes, hosted. | | 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 field-level localization. | | 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. | Built-in SEO and social field and a computed meta tags API with fallbacks and framework helpers. JSON-LD is left to the front end. llms.txt and .md files are a documented build recipe. | Checked on 5 November 2026 from each vendor’s site. Prices and plans change: follow the sources below. - Visual editing included on every plan, including free. - Built-in image delivery and optimization via its asset CDN. - Sandbox environments for schema changes. - 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 DatoCMS if… Teams that want a polished managed CMS with visual editing and strong media handling, priced in EUR. ### 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 DatoCMS to Leiho? There is no automatic importer from DatoCMS. 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. Sources: [datocms.com/pricing](https://www.datocms.com/pricing) · [datocms.com/docs/visual-editing](https://www.datocms.com/docs/visual-editing) · [datocms.com/docs/mcp-server](https://www.datocms.com/docs/mcp-server) · [datocms.com/docs/content-modelling](https://www.datocms.com/docs/content-modelling) · [datocms.com/docs/content-delivery-api/seo…](https://www.datocms.com/docs/content-delivery-api/seo-and-favicon) · [datocms.com/blog/headless-cms-for-llms](https://www.datocms.com/blog/headless-cms-for-llms). Something out of date? [Tell us](https://github.com/pixelersagency/leiho/issues/new?title=Comparison%20update). 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