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DatoCMS Reviews: 4.8/5 — Highly Rated

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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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32 DatoCMS Reviews
4.8 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 26, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Davide B. avatar
Davide B.
Web Architect, Full Stack Developer
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"Riding the JAMStack"
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

I like the system's flexibility - making advanced integrations possible - and the growing community; also, the support is impressive and readily available.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

I guess I only dislike the fact it's not the default choice yet; also, it might be a little pricey for small projects.

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

Any situation that needs a database and a CMS.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 09, 2021
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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.)
May 09, 2017
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Lachlan P.
Cofounder And Cto
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"Love the product!"
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

The complete flexibility of content! I can essentially build a custom database structure to fit our needs and then have an interface for editing live content on our marketing site.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

I haven't had any issues yet. This product works very well.

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

DatoCMS powers our marketing site, which is where the majority of our inbound leads first get in contact with us. It has allowed me to build a marketing site using middleman, a technology I am comfortable with; while allowing my co-founder to add new content to our product without having to learn to code.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 27, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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Antonio P.
Founder
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"Best cms Solution for small and medium-sized companies"
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

flexibility, ease of integration, ease of use and cost

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

Permission configuration, traceability of content usage and data acesso from API

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

single source of truth for our products and our websites. We only nedd update info in one place and after that all websites are updated

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 19, 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jul 28, 2022
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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
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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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.