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DatoCMS
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4.8
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DatoCMS Reviews & Product Details

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What is DatoCMS?

DatoCMS is a modern, user-friendly content management system designed to provide an effortless and streamlined experience for developers, marketers, and content creators. The platform's interface is straightforward and intuitive, and features a wide range of flexible customization options, allowing users to build, manage, and publish their content with ease. Some of its standout features include a robust API, seamless integration with popular front-end frameworks, version control, and real-time collaboration tools, making it a top choice for modern websites and applications.

Company DatoCMS
Year founded 2017
Company size 11-50 employees
Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States
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DatoCMS Product Details
Capabilities
API
CLI
Segment
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based
Support 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
Training Documentation
Languages English
DatoCMS Features
API-first Architecture
Analytics/Reporting
Backup & Restore
Collaboration Tools
Content Modeling
Content Previews
Content Scheduling
Content Search
Content Tagging & Categorization
Content Versioning
Content Workflows
Custom Content Types
Customizable Content Delivery
Developer-friendly SDKs
GraphQL Support
Headless Ecommerce Integration
Localization
Media Library
Multi-language Support
Multi-site Management
Performance Optimization
Personalization
RESTful API
Rich Text Editor
SEO Management
Scalability
Security & Authentication
Third-party Integrations
User Role Management
Webhooks
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Last updated: December 13, 2024
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32 DatoCMS Reviews
4.8 out of 5
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jul 28, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
JP
Joshua P.
Account Director
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"Easy to Use & Powerful"
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

Super intuitive CMS and easy to use. I was able to modify content without training of any kind.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

Little in the way of basic documentation - although this hasn't been too much of a problem.

What problems is DatoCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

CMS for a soon to launch website

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 19, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
BC
Brice C.
Founder
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"Thoughts on DatoCMS"
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

The ease of use & flexibility of content models has been a breath of fresh air in comparison to other CMS's we've tried. We also love the admin dashboard because of how simple it is.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

The new pricing structure has made things a bit difficult for smaller businesses to buy in.

What problems is DatoCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

The flexible content models and ease of use has made our agency creating unique user experiences on the web a breeze.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 23, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"A flexible and well-rounded CMS, with top-notch editor & developer experience"
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

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.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

I have actually not found anything to dislike about DatoCMS in comparison to other CMS platforms.

What problems is DatoCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

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.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 28, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Excellent CMS for developers with GraphQL, media management, block editor and multilingual content"
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

Minimum setup required to trigger deploys of the site e.g. to Vercel. Flexible type system (schema) and extendable block-based editor.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

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.

What problems is DatoCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

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.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Mar 28, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"The most underrated Headless CMS"
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

The ever-evolving feature set, ease of use and extremely responsive product team.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

Hard to think of anything honestly. The only thing I would have said would be the lack of client isolated infrastructure, but that has recently been added.

What problems is DatoCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Single source of truth for CMS content across multiple applications. Composable content modules that allow designers to easily craft unique experiences in a matter of minutes.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 09, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"DatoCMS is a well rounded CMS with rapid & helpful support"
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

Modular content allows to build complete pages by mix & matching different blocks, very flexible.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

Pricing is a little more complicated than it used to be, but it's miles cheaper than alternatives. We tried dozen before settling on DatoCMS; the only one that comes close in terms of feature is Contentstack, but pricing is on another level.

What problems is DatoCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using DatoCMS as a headless CMS for Gatsby. It works like a charm.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 19, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"great DX and UX, very easy to get started, much simpler than competitors"
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

Global distribution and 0 devops needed. And quick and nice customer support on a free tier

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

Bidirectional relations missing require a little more work but it's fine. Request count went up fast, that's something to investigate.

What problems is DatoCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

No devops, no backend, works out of the box

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Oct 22, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Great CMS and responsive customer service"
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

I like how easy it is to use and its integration with GatsbyJS. The customer service also has been of great help to me. They were very responsive and helped me until the case was resolved.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

There is nothing I do not like so far on DatoCMS.

What problems is DatoCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Content creation. DatoCMS helps create a separation between the developers and the marketing team. My responsibility now as a developer is to make sure the contents are correctly displayed. I do not need to be the one to change the content from time to time as other users have access to the CMS.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Oct 11, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Easy to setup, customize to your need, and great dev experience"
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

Data modeling is easy to understand, tweak, and tailor to your need. Nothing is frozen and it's really easy to change your mind / data design. Graphql API makes it a joy to work with and integrate with Next or Gatsby. Image management with rich API & CDN is also a joy. Support is great too, and pricing is fair when you consider the other player in the same fields.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

I would love to have reverse relationships for graphQL API: you have posts that belong to a category, you can get the linked category from the post, you can get all post for a given category, but you don't have a post collection on your category model. It seems really costly to do, and the workaround are not that bad,

What problems is DatoCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Self-hosting a headless CMS is time-consuming, and a good CDN can be pricy. DATO does both with a great UX & DX.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 05, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Dato FTMFW"
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

The flexibility of it - we were able to build what we needed and continued to adapt

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

It requires a bit of competency -- one one of the people making updates through it has no prior website experiences and stumbled through it quite often

What problems is DatoCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using it for a restaurant website CMS, it's been great for flexibility and updates beyond user comptency

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 28, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Easy!"
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

Simplicity, it enables everyone at the office to do changes otherwise too complex

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

Cannot think of anything from the top of my mind. The storage space maybe. And!! When one uses the edit tool for photos, it is saved in a format that the the system doesn't accept

What problems is DatoCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Again, letting more people at the office do things otherwise appointed the tech team

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 19, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Configurable but will require extra support"
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

Platform has complete flexibility to build the site & CMS you'd like

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

You are dependent on your front end dev for most all - would be great if it were a bit more plug & play for marketing users

What problems is DatoCMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

CMS for website