When to choose DatoCMS vs Wordpress?

Built for tech teams that want to speed up development pace and leave antiquate systems behind, ensuring editors keep a user-friendly platform.

The world’s most adopted CMS, powering 43% of the internet, well known for being easy to use, but still fairly customizable through plugins.

Transparent pricing with no hidden costs, and a full-featured free tier to experiment before committing.

Starts free, but costs add up quickly - premium plugins and themes, hosting, engineering - resulting in dozens or even hundreds of dollars per month for larger-scale projects.

Gives engineers the freedom to choose any tech stack and framework, like Next.js, Vue, React, as the content is separated from the presentation layer, without worrying about the backend.

While integrating a chosen frontend using WordPress APIs is doable, it comes with its challenges — you'll still need to handle backend tasks to ensure scalability and maintaining security.

Frontend development demands time, but opens the door to user experiences that are both custom-fit and technologically superior.

An all-encompassing solution allows for rapid site building and deployment, but venturing into customizations quickly becomes complex and time-consuming.

A clean editing experience where editors coming from Wordpress can transition quickly and be productive from the get-go.

The editor delivers an environment that has achieved widespread adoption and recognition throughout industries.

Extend UI and functionality using a mix of official, community, and private plugins. However, they may lack the capabilities of WordPress's, and often require frontend modifications for integration.

Offers a huge selection of plugins and themes to enhance a site's functionality and appearance, optimizing for SEO, security, and user experience without any development.

Without the burden of managing backend scalability, developers can channel their creativity into actually building their projects.

Scalability hinges on the backend's web and database servers, placing a burden on your IT or forcing reliance on expensive hosting services.

Includes media management with storage and CDN on Imgix for images and Mux for video optimization. 

Plugins can enhance multimedia content with a CDN to boost performance, but they are not cheap and can lead to vendor lock-in. 

Enterprise-grade network security with DDOS mitigation, TLS encryption at rest and in transit, network rate limits, and two layers of caching to minimize downtime risks, with an average 99,99% uptime.

Widely known for security issues due to vulnerabilities in plugins, themes, and outdated versions.

Sit back and relax, no need to worry about backend maintenance - DatoCMS keeps the solution up-to-date for you.

Navigating updates across themes, plugins, and various software layers can be a minefield that often leads to site disruptions, turning maintenance into a tricky endeavor.