Both our team and clients are happy using DatoCMS. I especially like that our non-technical customers can easily make updates and that my team can focus on being a more strategic partner. I also like that my team is able to develop more quickly with fewer issues resulting in cost and time savings. Last but definitely not least, we've really enjoyed working with the DatoCMS team. They've been helpful and quite responsive.
DatoCMS isn't as widely recognized as some competitors, so it can take a bit more time upfront to educate potential clients about its benefits.
DatoCMS is helping us move faster and is giving our clients more flexibility. It's a much more modern solution.
It is clear that the Dato team has put a lot of effort in understanding their users' needs. They value their customers and provide excellent support. From a developer standpoint, DatoCMS is simply amazing. There are just so many good features and the CMS is really easy to implement. The docs are great and thorough. The dozen of available starter projects help you get going real fast. The GraphQL Content Delivery API allows for full typesafety when using Typescript and codegen. Webhooks work great. And what I like the most, by building your own custom plugins, it is possible to extend the functionality of DatoCMS in any imaginable way. True flexibility.
I have actually not found anything to dislike about DatoCMS in comparison to other CMS platforms.
For clients, we have used DatoCMS to build a great content management solution for marketing sites, and are currently implementing DatoCMS for a more advanced use case: an education platform, having the entirety of the admin portal inside of Dato using custom plugins.
It's easy to develop with DatoCMS our devs were able to put the first bits in the same day as we registered The interface is simple. DatoCMS provides great capabilities to Agencies and their customers - no need for an agency user in each customer account and collaborators solve issues with shared accounts which is a great addition to security Pricing is affordable
So far, everything is good. Of course, there are some small things here and there, but it's more a matter of my tastes
Decouple content from web-frontend this gives us flexibility with content management and allows us to offload content updates from developers
* really easy to use * great support team * flexible pricing * customizable sidebar
Sometiems the search function does not work as expected
We needed a SAAS Cms on a budget
DatoCMS has the features you need, not more of them not any less. I will be totally honest: in the first place, I appreciated its pricing as it has a very low starting point which was affordable for a startup. The preview feature with NextJS is game-changer, this integration is so powerful! I was very happy with its CDN: being able to share static assets with two clicks with such performance is vital for a startup like us. Adding internationalization to our homepage was super easy and quick. Integrating its Webhooks to existing Deployment Pipelines (Azure Pipelines in our case) was easy and fast.
I won't compare here Headless CMS versus Traditional full-blown CMS as they are different paradigms with pros and cons that apply to all the products, not Dato specifically. I wasn't able to create a unique immutable URL for a PDF I uploaded in the DatoCMS Content CDN: I need to have a PDF with a URL that never changes even if I update the content, but I had to write some custom code.
We have to - have beautiful landing pages powered by our design system where Marketing should be able to update or create theme without Development effort - handle internationalized copywriting for both sites and apps - easily deploy static asset sharing URLs in different part of our company
Minimum setup required to trigger deploys of the site e.g. to Vercel. Flexible type system (schema) and extendable block-based editor.
The price is too high for smaller projects with ~1000 records. The lowest-paid plan is 199€/month. The free plan is suitable for development only.
Deploying a multilingual website with rich media to a global audience. The main benefits were low maintenance costs for IT and an easy and joyful editing experience for editors.
1. Great and responsive customer support 2. Great user interface of the app 3. Small and agile team with fast feature releases
Nothing really serious. If I have to pick something: 1. Simpler live previews 2. Missing some of the features of big competitors, but nothing breaking
Centralized content management for websites and apps. Offers great UI for both content modeling and editing. Pricing is fair. Offers great multilanguage capabilities.
DatoCMS allows you to create a fully customised CMS backend for JAMstack websites. You can model data structures accurately while allowing editors the ability to easily manage content. Data can then be pulled down into your app via a variety of APIs which work well. The system is responsive and the developers are friendly and genuinely engaged with how their product is used. Sensible pricing is offered, meaning that even smaller companies can benefit from this great product.
The CMS user interface – already the best on the market – could still be better if there was a final layer of usability polish applied. Some terminology is still designed for highly technical end-users. The interface is very solid but there are also occasionally bugs. Some parts of some of the APIs are not as well documented as I'd like.
I provide easy-to-use CMSs for client websites that allow them to edit their site in a safe and controlled way. I can provide clients with only and exactly the controls they need, so that editing is simple, and they can't accidentally break anything.