--- title: "Leiho vs Hygraph: headless CMS comparison" description: "GraphQL-native SaaS headless CMS with content federation from external APIs. 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/hygraph lang: en updated: 2026-11-04 --- Compare # Leiho vs Hygraph GraphQL-native SaaS headless CMS with content federation from external APIs. Leiho takes another route: your content stays in WordPress, and editors click the real page of your own front end to change it. | | Leiho | Hygraph | | --- | --- | --- | | 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 (Hobby, 3 seats). Entry paid plan: Growth, from $199/month (10 seats). | | Visual editing | Yes: editors click text and images on the real front end, inside wp-admin, and it updates as they type. | Partial: Live Preview plus Click to Edit (beta) adds Edit buttons on tagged front-end elements that jump to the field in Hygraph Studio. | | Content model | Leiho Collections (schema builder or leiho.schema.json), or your existing ACF fields. | Both (Schema Builder UI and Management SDK). | | AI | Writing with your brand context on every text field, through WordPress’s own AI connectors (WordPress 7.0+). | AI Assist on all plans with token quotas; AI Agents announced as a paid add-on. | | MCP server | Yes, through the official WordPress MCP Adapter: agents read content and write drafts only. | Yes, early-access MCP server (endpoint per project; docs mirrored; official page not confirmed). | | 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 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. | No built-in SEO field: the docs recommend an SEO component you model yourself. JSON-LD is recommended but rendered by the front end. No llms.txt or Markdown output in the docs. | Checked on 5 November 2026 from each vendor’s site. Prices and plans change: follow the sources below. - GraphQL-first API for reading and writing content. - Content federation: query external REST/GraphQL sources through one endpoint. - Fully managed, with no servers to run. - Editors edit the real front end, inside wp-admin: they click a heading on the page and type. - 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. ### Choose Hygraph if… Teams standardized on GraphQL that need to combine CMS content with data from other systems. ### 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 Hygraph to Leiho? There is no automatic importer from Hygraph. 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: [hygraph.com/pricing](https://hygraph.com/pricing) · [hygraph.com/docs/getting-started](https://hygraph.com/docs/getting-started) · [hygraph.com/docs/developer-guides/schema/…](https://hygraph.com/docs/developer-guides/schema/click-to-edit) · [hygraph.com/product](https://hygraph.com/product) · [mcpservers.org/servers/hygraph-com-docs-hygr…](https://mcpservers.org/servers/hygraph-com-docs-hygraph-ai-mcp-server) · [hygraph.com/docs/core-concepts/content-mo…](https://hygraph.com/docs/core-concepts/content-modeling/content-modeling-best-practices). Something out of date? [Tell us](https://github.com/pixelersagency/leiho/issues/new?title=Comparison%20update). 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