Content Management System (CMS) Pricing Benchmarks 2026: 13 Products Compared
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Statistic · 3 sections · Updated Oct 20, 2026

Market Median (13 products)

Content Management System (CMS) pricing varies across per-seat, per-usage, and enterprise-quoted tiers. Published list prices on vendor pricing pages form the basis of this benchmark; quote-only products are listed but left out of the medians.

Entry-tier median is $0, top-tier median $199 (products with published prices only).

Per-Product Pricing

Product Entry Median Top Unit
Adobe Experience Manager Custom Custom Custom month
ButterCMS $0 $224 $359 month
Contentful $0 $300 $300 month
Contentstack Custom Custom Custom month
Ghost $15 $29 $199 month
HubSpot CMS Hub $0 $7.00 $7.00 month
Prismic $0 $337 $675 month
Sanity CMS $0 $15 $15 month
Squarespace $25 $44 $139 month
Strapi $0 $225 $450 month
Webflow CMS $0 $25 $2,500 month
Wix $0 $39 $172 month
WordPress.com $0 $25 $70 month

What this table shows

Low is the entry-tier price (often a free or starter plan). Median is the middle price across published tiers. High is the top published tier. Custom means the vendor publishes no list price (quote only); those rows are left out of the medians.

Frequently Asked Questions

01 What do content management system (cms) actually cost?

Across 13 tracked products, the entry-tier median is $0 and the top-tier median is $199. Individual products vary significantly — see the per-product table above.

02 Which Content Management System (CMS) product is cheapest?

ButterCMS has the lowest entry-tier price in our tracked set.

03 Which Content Management System (CMS) product is most premium?

Webflow CMS has the highest top-tier list price among tracked products.

04 How accurate is this pricing data?

Prices are sourced from vendor pricing pages and automatically re-checked. Any tier marked 'custom' has no public list price; negotiated deals aren't shown here.