5 out of 5 stars rating — “Published pricing, no 800% surprises.”
Adapto CMS: the Storyblok alternative with a contractual price-lock.
Storyblok raised Growth pricing from $39 to $349/mo in April 2025 — an 8× change with existing customers migrated. Adapto's published price-lock makes that move impossible on a signed plan. Every feature, every tier.
↳ Published all the way up — no Contact Sales for governance
Works with your framework
Where Storyblok starts to hurt
Storyblok's Visual Editor is great. The price ladder isn't.
Storyblok ships the best visual editor in the category — and the trade-offs are GraphQL gated to Contact Sales, audit logs gated to Contact Sales, $20/mo per extra locale, and a price ladder that moved 8× in one quarter. Adapto bundles the basics flat and locks the price.
- Storyblok pain
Storyblok raised Growth from $39 to $349/mo in April 2025 — an 8× change, with existing customers migrated to the new rate.
Adapto CMSAdapto's price-lock guarantee is contractual: signed plans keep their rate for the full term. New customer prices can change — but we can't migrate existing customers mid-term.
- Storyblok pain
Localization on Storyblok costs $20/mo per extra locale on top of your plan — ship two languages, pay every month.
Adapto CMSUnlimited locales on every tier, including Free Evaluation. Fallback chains and language scoping work out of the box.
- Storyblok pain
GraphQL, audit logs, and field-level permissions are all Contact Sales — you can't price them before the call.
Adapto CMSAdapto's tier ceiling is $449/mo and it's published. Field-level permissions aren't shipped today (three org-level roles ship), but the roadmap is public, not 'request a quote'.
- Storyblok pain
1 space on Entry. Need a second space (staging, microsite, brand)? You're on a higher tier or a Contact Sales conversation.
Adapto CMSUnlimited projects per organization on every plan. Create a second project the same way you create a collection.
I've got convinced by the bundled media CDN and the pricing predictability. The biggest improvement was a loading speed gain of around 60% after moving to Adapto. We rebuild server-side generated pages whenever new content is published on the CMS via a webhook.
I think Adapto can accommodate both early-stage projects and larger applications or web pages.
First project live in a few hours.
The math, at common team sizes
Real scenarios, both bills.
Three scenarios. Adapto's flat-rate vs Storyblok's published pricing — including the post-April-2025 Growth rate.
| Scenario | Storyblok | Adapto CMS |
|---|---|---|
| Marketing site (5 editors, 1 space, 10K records) | Storyblok Storyblok Entry — published at higher tier post-April-2025; verify on storyblok.com/pricing. | Adapto CMS Adapto Hobby — $29/mo, every feature included. |
| Production product (post-April-2025 Growth scale) | Storyblok Storyblok Growth (post-hike) — $349/mo, GraphQL + audit logs still Contact Sales. | Adapto CMS Adapto Startup — $69/mo flat. |
| Content-heavy company (multi-locale, governance required) | Storyblok Storyblok — Contact Sales for governance, field-level permissions, multi-region. Pricing not published. | Adapto CMS Adapto Scale — $249/mo flat. |
*Pricing referenced from www.storyblok.com/pricing
No add-ons, no feature gates, no surprises
Every CMS primitive a dev team needs. On every plan.
Content modeling, REST API, CLI + AI + Webhooks, Media CDN, localization. The same surface on Free Evaluation as on Professional — the only thing that scales is usage.
A CLI built for AI agents, not just terminals
Adapto ships a first-class CLI designed to give AI agents — Claude Code, Cursor, or any LLM toolchain — direct, structured access to your content.
Manage collections, trigger builds, and automate publishing from a terminal or from an agent's context. Most CMSs treat agents as an afterthought; Adapto treats them as a primary user.
One platform. One bill.
CDN, image optimization, webhooks, and content API in one product. No Cloudinary contract.
No separate media host. No glue code. Organize work by organization, invite as many contributors as the project needs, and run unlimited projects under one account.
Centralized asset library across every project
Upload once, reuse everywhere. Manage images, videos, and documents from a single library shared across collections in your project.
Ship in every language without a pricing penalty
Translate content into as many locales as the project needs without watching the tier requirements creep up.
Other CMSs cap included locales (some cut theirs to five recently) and charge per extra language. i18n is included at every tier — scale languages with usage, not with line items.
SEO Site Checkup has an audience of almost 1 million users per month. Their marketing site runs on Adapto CMS.
Nearly a million SEO professionals visit SEO Site Checkup every month — an audience that scrutinizes load time, structure, and Core Web Vitals professionally. They wouldn't keep coming back to a slow site. Their marketing site runs on Adapto CMS.
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Webhooks and GitHub Actions that plug into any automation tool
Trigger builds, sync to third-party services, or fire workflows on every content change.
Webhooks and GitHub Actions integrate cleanly with n8n, Make, Zapier, and any HTTP-receiving automation — so content events can rebuild a site, notify Slack, sync to a search index, or kick off a custom pipeline. Included from the free tier, not gated behind a higher tier.
Image transforms via URL — no pipeline, no build step
Resize, convert, and compress images on the fly by appending URL parameters and the CDN handles it at the edge. No build step. No image pipeline. No separate processing server.
Most setups force you to pre-generate every variant at build time or pay for a third-party transform service; Adapto serves any size, format, or quality from a single source upload.
Custom collections without unlocking a higher tier
Define exactly the content shapes the project needs — blog posts, products, landing pages, case studies, anything — with custom fields and relationships.
Available from the free plan up, not gated behind a "Pro" tier or sold as an add-on.
Techarena runs every speaker, sponsor, stage, and venue feed from a single Adapto CMS source of truth.
Scandinavia's largest tech event manages every speaker, sponsor, stage, and venue feed through Adapto CMS. One source of truth across every screen, schedule, and signage system. When 11,000 attendees from 125 nationalities show up over two days, let me check another tab is not an option.
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Pricing for Cost predictability
They raise prices. We don't. The flat-rate stays flat.
Add editors. Expand to new markets. Turn on webhooks. Your plan doesn't change. Adapto scales by content volume and API usage — not headcount, locales, or features. Get 2 months free on annual billing.
Free Evaluation
For developers learning the API or testing Adapto before committing.
- 500 total records
- 5,000 API calls/mo
- 2 GB bandwidth/mo
- All features included
Hobby
For side projects, personal sites, and small production builds that need real limits.
- 10,000 total records
- 150,000 API calls/mo
- 50 GB bandwidth/mo
- All features included
Startup
PopularFor freelancers or small business owners running a single high-quality production site.
- 50,000 total records
- 300,000 API calls/mo
- 100 GB bandwidth/mo
- All features included
Scale
For growing teams and agencies shipping multiple production projects.
- 300,000 total records
- 500,000 API calls/mo
- 300 GB bandwidth/mo
- All features included
Professional
For agencies and product teams managing portfolios of high-traffic applications.
- 750,000 total records
- 1,500,000 API calls/mo
- 1 TB bandwidth/mo
- All features included
Migrating from Storyblok
Already on Storyblok? The path out is straightforward.
Storyblok exposes content via its CDA (Content Delivery API) as JSON. A one-off Node script reads your stories and writes them into Adapto's REST API. The biggest delta is Storyblok's rich-text format — a JSON tree that needs a transform on the way in. Reach out and we'll share the script we use for other migrations.
A note from the founders
Greetings, we're Vlad and Alex.
Before Adapto, we ran an agency. For years we tried every CMS we could find a reason to recommend. Webflow until a client needed three locales. Cosmic JS until the pricing changed and our smaller clients didn't fit. Sanity for the larger builds, until the per-seat math made onboarding editors a conversation we didn't want to keep having.
Same pattern every time. A reasonable starting price. A feature behind the next tier. A renewal call where the number doubled. A quarterly explanation to the client about why the invoice changed again.
So we stopped looking and built the CMS we wished existed. Flat pricing. Every feature included. Content, media, and image delivery in one product.
Once it was running, migrations went quiet. Client bills stopped surprising anyone. The "what does this cost next year" question finally had a real answer.
We're opening it up because if you've been on the same hamster wheel, you already know the problem.
Step off the wheel. Try it. Let us know what breaks.
Gratefully,
P.S. Adapto CMS is completely free to start .
Questions and answers
Pricing, features, limits, migrations, and what happens when your usage grows. If your question isn't here, reach out to us at contact@adaptocms.com