Hygraph: The Premier Alternative to Cloudcanon | Detailed Comparison
Hygraph stands out as a CMS not just for marketing teams but one that strikes a perfect balance and is loved by developers and marketers alike. Offering superior developer features enables you to build innovative digital projects, particularly those requiring complex content interactions and user-generated content.
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Why choose Hygraph as an Alternative to Cloudcanon?
API and Core Features
Hygraph's advanced GraphQL capabilities, including queries and mutations, outperform Strapi’s GraphQL, which requires additional setup.
Content Modeling
Hygraph supports more complex, easily reusable content structures and validations, unlike Strapi, which has less extensive built-in validations.
Editorial Features
Hygraph offers a rich interface with batch operations and custom roles, whereas Strapi’s editorial features are less flexible, potentially limiting large-scale management.
Asset Management
Hygraph excels with integrated global CDN and SEO optimization for efficient content delivery, whereas Strapi lacks integrated CDN, affecting large-scale performance.
Comparing Hygraph and Cloudcanon: Headless CMS Capabilities
Compare how Hygraph as a federated content platform represents the next generation of content management, going a step beyond being just a headless CMS when compared to Strapi
Hygraph | Strapi | |
|---|---|---|
API and Core Features | Extensive, including GraphQL Content and Management API, Mutations, etc. | Offers REST API and GraphQL support, with customization capabilities. Enforces default query limits and careful management of API rate limits |
Content Modeling | Flexible content modeling, components, and validations. | Supports dynamic zones and nested components but can become complex and impacting performance as well as usability. |
Editorial Features and Content Management | Rich editing interface, batch operations, custom roles, and stages. | Provides features like bulk operations and custom roles but may lack the depth and ease of Hygraph's integrated batch and role management capabilities. |
Digital Asset Management | Advanced DAM capabilities, global asset CDN, SEO optimized management. | Basic asset management is supported, but often relies on external plugins for extended DAM functionalities |
Community and Resources | Rich community support, extensive examples, and resources. | Strong community and plugin marketplace, though some users report a steep learning curve and scattered documentation. |
Extensibility | Customize the UI using marketplace apps or custom apps. Source data from any external API, without duplication. | |
Plans and Pricing | Offers a free forever community plan, transparent pricing. | Free entry-level plan available. Scalability can become costly, and users find the pricing model less transparent compared to Hygraph |
Enterprise Capabilities | Option to choose dedicated/shared hosting in location of choice. Offers Audit logs, custom SLAs, and detailed permissions. | |
Security, Compliance, and Support | Comprehensive security features, GDPR compliant, dedicated support. | Includes basic security features and customizable roles varying by plan. Details on dedicated support are less clear. |
What can you do with Hygraph?
Highlight your competitive advantage with modular content
Hygraph offers powerful and flexible content modeling capabilities—behaving like a database. This enables you to simplify your complex content by breaking it down into modular blocks and, hence, communicate your story without compromising performance or end-user experience.
Scale your digital presence and reach a wider audience
Hygraph’s headless architecture, API-first approach, granular permissions, and localization features help you centralize and distribute content to multiple channels or markets at scale—allowing you to reach a wider audience in mere days at much lower costs while sounding consistent across touchpoints.
Enable your team to ramp up the pace of content creation
Hygraph empowers your creators and editors to autonomously manage content with an intuitive interface, in-line editing tools, and the ability to build pages using standardized design components.
This helps them personalize page layouts and adapt content for delivery to any channel, reducing the time it takes to publish content.
Launch new iterations and app experiences faster
Since creators and editors work autonomously, your development teams can focus on building experiences on the frontend. They can build digital applications with Hygraph’s powerful API without needing assistance from backend developers.
This enables your development teams to focus on building innovative digital experiences and launch iterations faster, without sacrificing performance.
Extend functionality through plugins and integrations
Configure webhooks and connect applications to integrate external systems seamlessly. Unify data from systems within your tech stack with Hygraph’s unique Content Federation capability.
These capabilities let you evolve to a composable, future-proof architecture built using best-of-breed systems, without worrying about integration hurdles, or data integrity challenges.
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We picked Hygraph because of its rich-text visual editor, user-friendly localization feature (our material is available in many languages), scalability (it can handle several hundred thousand visitors per month), and programmatic content writing capabilities (awesome for importing content from other systems). A robust solution for content management...
One of the most versatile CMSs
We picked Hygraph because of its rich-text visual editor, user-friendly localization feature (our material is available in many languages), scalability (it can handle several hundred thousand visitors per month), and programmatic content writing capabilities (awesome for importing content from other systems). A robust solution for content management..
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Hygraph is great content platform, it helps to distribute content from anywhere. It helps to unify various types of structured content and helps in creating engaging product for our audience. Backend team are super happy with this software as now they don't need to bottleneck them selves. Content modelling has been easy with this software which helps us to structure content in few minutes.
Don't just take our word for it
At Hygraph, we are dedicated to being part of an open, best-of-breed technology ecosystem that is also compliant with highest industry standards.
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Recognized in Forrester’s Digital Experience Platforms Landscape, Q2 2023
Hygraph recognized in Forrester’s report on The Digital Experience Platforms Landscape, Q2 2023.
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Fully MACH certified
Leading companies join the movement and apply MACH standards in building their composable stacks.
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Recognized in Gartner® Market Guide for Web Content Management 2022
Hygraph recognized as one of the 34 Representative Vendors in 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Web Content Management.
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SOC 2 Type 2 Compliant
By being compliant to the SOC-criteria, Hygraph commits and guarantees highest industry standards for IT and data security.