Craft CMS

Content comes first in Craft, and the site argues that editors should not have to bend their material to fit a rigid CMS. Craft CMS is made by Pixel & Tonic, a remote team led by founder and chief executive Brandon Kelly, with its mailing address in Bend, Oregon. The product is a flexible content management system for building custom websites and digital experiences.

Content modelling with Twig and GraphQL

Developers can build the front end with Twig templates or keep it fully decoupled and read content through the system's self-generating GraphQL API. The content model supports unlimited content types and entries, and the control panel is translated into 25 languages. Multi-site and localisation features let a single install serve an unlimited number of sites, languages and locales. Craft is built on open-source components, with Yii, Twig and Vue named on the home page, and a plugin framework and Plugin Store extend it. Connections to marketing tools such as Salesforce, Mailchimp and HubSpot are listed, and the pricing page mentions an MCP server for Craft.

Commerce and Cloud

Craft Commerce is the ecommerce add-on for building a store, and Craft Cloud is the hosting service run by the same company. On the pricing page the Team licence is free when hosted on Craft Cloud. Support plans and service-level agreements are offered next to community support, which includes a Discord server the site counts at over 8,000 accounts, along with what it calls hundreds of agencies and thousands of developers.

Licences from Solo to Enterprise

Four editions are listed. Solo is self-hosted, free and limited to one user account. Team costs $279 per project with one year of updates included and $99 a year for updates afterwards, and allows up to five user accounts and one user group. Pro costs $399 and lifts the limits on users and groups while adding a branded control panel and branded communication. Enterprise adds first-party SAML single sign-on, a custom licence agreement, procurement support and dedicated premium support. Team is stated as available only for Craft 5.

Key facts

Company: Pixel & Tonic Product: Craft CMS, with Craft Commerce and Craft Cloud Founder and CEO: Brandon Kelly Address on site: 320 SW Century Drive Ste 405 #136, Bend, OR 97702, USA Editions: Solo (free), Team, Pro, Enterprise Built on: Yii, Twig, Vue API: GraphQL, generated from the content model