DatoCMS Reviews & Product Details

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

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

CMS for a soon to launch website

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

No devops, no backend, works out of the box

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.

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

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.

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.

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CMS for website