Developers ask AI: What's the best CMS API for my project?
Representative prompt — one of many ways developers ask this questionContentful, Sanity, and Strapi hold the top three spots, unchanged from last month.
The biggest mover is Cosmic, jumping 9 spots from #27 to #18. Ghost had the steepest drop, falling 4 positions from #11 to #15.
| Rank Ordered by prominence across all models, compared to September 2026. | Product Company or product name that appeared in model responses for this category. | Prominence Prominence (1–100) weights how often a product is ranked ahead of others. Hover a score for average position and visibility. | Models Per-model prominence. Ring fill shows each model's prominence score. Hover a dot for prominence, average position, and visibility. |
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| 1 — | 100 |
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| 2 — | 90 |
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| 3 — | 85 |
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| 4 — | 80 |
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| 5 ▲1 | 75 |
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| 6 ▼1 | 75 |
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| 7 — | 72 |
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| 8 — | 69 |
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| 9 ▲4 | 61 |
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| 10 — | 57 |
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| 11 ▲1 | 54 |
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| 12 ▼3 | 53 |
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| 13 ▲2 | 50 |
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| 14 — | 48 |
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| 15 ▼4 | 45 |
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| 16 ▲4 | 23 |
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| 17 ▲8 | 18 |
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| 18 ▲9 | 12 |
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Also tracked
Cockpit CMS, Decap CMS, KeystoneJS, Umbraco Heartcore
These products appeared in at least one model response but did not meet the threshold to rank. This is not a comprehensive list. Many factors influence whether a product appears in AI-generated results. Rankings reflect AI model behavior at time of testing. Appearance or absence does not constitute an endorsement or evaluation by LLM Rank.
Top 10 over time
October 2026How standings changed across April 2026 → May 2026 → June 2026 → July 2026 → August 2026 → September 2026 → October 2026. Hover a point or product name for details.
Dashed lines = months outside the top 10.
The top Content Management tools, according to…
October 2026 · top 5 per model
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Contentful 100
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Sanity 90
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Strapi 85
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Storyblok 81
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Prismic 78
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Contentful 100
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Sanity 90
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Strapi 85
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Contentstack 80
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Storyblok 79
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Contentful 100
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Sanity 90
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Strapi 85
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Storyblok 81
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Contentstack 78
Content Management developers also ask about…
What are the best open-source headless CMS platforms? Representative prompt — one of several specialized views within Content Management
Rankings for a specialized prompt within Content Management.
| Rank Ordered by prominence across all models. | Product Company or product name that appeared in model responses for this category. | Prominence Prominence (1–100) weights how often a product is ranked ahead of others. Hover a score for average position and visibility. | Models Per-model prominence. Ring fill shows each model's prominence score. Hover a dot for prominence, average position, and visibility. |
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| 1 |
Strapi
3
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100 |
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Payload CMS
14
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88 |
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Ghost
15
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80 |
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KeystoneJS
NR
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80 |
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Directus
7
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78 |
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Decap CMS
NR
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71 |
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| 7 |
TinaCMS
16
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71 |
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Wagtail
NR
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68 |
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| 9 | 64 |
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| 10 |
Cockpit CMS
NR
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63 |
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What are the best visual CMS platforms with editors for non-technical collaboration? Representative prompt — one of several specialized views within Content Management
Rankings for a specialized prompt within Content Management.
| Rank Ordered by prominence across all models. | Product Company or product name that appeared in model responses for this category. | Prominence Prominence (1–100) weights how often a product is ranked ahead of others. Hover a score for average position and visibility. | Models Per-model prominence. Ring fill shows each model's prominence score. Hover a dot for prominence, average position, and visibility. |
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| 1 | 96 |
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Builder.io
10
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95 |
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Prismic
5
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82 |
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| 4 | 75 |
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Sanity
2
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73 |
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| 6 | 73 |
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Plasmic
NR
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70 |
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Makeswift
NR
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63 |
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Uniform
NR
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61 |
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Agility CMS
13
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59 |
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What are the best git-based CMS platforms for managing content in version control? Representative prompt — one of several specialized views within Content Management
Rankings for a specialized prompt within Content Management.
| Rank Ordered by prominence across all models. | Product Company or product name that appeared in model responses for this category. | Prominence Prominence (1–100) weights how often a product is ranked ahead of others. Hover a score for average position and visibility. | Models Per-model prominence. Ring fill shows each model's prominence score. Hover a dot for prominence, average position, and visibility. |
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TinaCMS
16
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99 |
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Decap CMS
NR
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88 |
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CloudCannon
NR
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88 |
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CrafterCMS
NR
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76 |
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Pages CMS
NR
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75 |
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Keystatic
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Thinkmill
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74 |
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Outstatic
NR
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52 |
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| 8 | 52 |
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Static CMS
NR
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51 |
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Sveltia CMS
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50 |
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Full report & dataset
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Complete per-model results and every individual model run in a spreadsheet, a PDF for citing with a written read on what moved.
In the October 2026 export
- 45 ranked products
- 3 models ranked in full
- 120 runs, with verbatim replies
- 3 prompt variants scored
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Content Management · October 2026
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In the export
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- Three prompt variants scored in full
Data Trove XLSX
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Data Dossier PDF
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