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Headless CMS vs. No-Code Website Builders

The content management market is anything but new. In the last few years, traditional web-based content management systems (CMS) such as WordPress and Drupal have become less popular and two types of vendors have emerged as strong challengers: No-code website builders such as Squarespace, Webflow and Bubble and pure headless CMS such as Contentful and Strapi.

No-code tools tend to be built for a specific use case and provide a number of templates or building blocks that users can drag and drop to build their websites or apps. As such, most no-code tools are Software-as-a-Service solutions that do not need to be installed locally and later deployed to production.

Headless CMS are not in direct competition with no-code tools, it’s more of a tradeoff between tools that are quick to get started with versus tools that are highly flexible and customizable.