Meet the headless API First CMS that integrates with your app using a straightforward API. Smooth, simple, and tasty content integration — that’s Butter.
So easy to use. So easy to customize. You’re going to love the content you build better with ButterCMS.
Handy integration with API First CMS
Our API First CMS has a simple content API and drop-in API First SDK that makes the magic happen in minutes, not hours.
A truly zero-maintenance solution
With ButterCMS, you’ll never worry about security upgrades, hosting, or performance again.
Powerful CMS for API First. Zero headache.
Drop our API-based CMS into your API First app in minutes.
ButterCMS provides a component-based CMS and content API for API First apps. Use ButterCMS to enable dynamic content in your apps for page content, blogs, and anything else. Most customers get our API First CMS set up in one hour or less.
That leaves plenty of time for you and your marketing team to do what you do best: create killer apps with killer content.
After shopping the market, it was clear that ButterCMS was the perfect choice. It allows our developers to build powerful components and makes it easy for our marketing team to drive a better customer experience.
Hampton Catlin Creator of Sass and Haml
Built to make content marketing easy
ButterCMS is the best headless cms for API First for a simple reason: API First developers can build solutions that marketing people love. Our API allows your content gurus to quickly spin up high-converting, dynamic landing pages, SEO pages, product marketing pages, and more, all using simple drag-and-drop functionality.
Our mission was to make it easy to integrate Butter with your existing API First app in minutes. It’s so simple! To demonstrate, here’s a mini tutorial to give you a feel for the process of adding marketing pages to your API First app.
See how easily you can integrate the ButterCMS Pages API with your API First app.
Seamless API First components
Empower your marketing team with dynamic landing pages that align perfectly with your API First components.
Components are the essential building blocks of any API First app, and ButterCMS handles them with ease.
Our drag and drop interface makes it simple to structure your content to match existing API First components and to create new reusable components whenever you need them.
One API First CMS with everything you need
There’s a reason so many developers are choosing a headless API First CMS. It’s easy to set up, offers flexible, customizable content modeling, and gives you access to our full API First API.
require 'buttercms-ruby'
ButterCMS::api_token = "api_token_BQokik"
# Get blog posts, case study pages, and main menu
ButterCMS::Post.list()
ButterCMS::Page.list('case_studies')
ButterCMS::Content.list(['main_menu'])
That's it! If you browse to your homepage you'll see your homepage populated with the content you created in Butter.
ButterCMS is an API-based headless CMS. We're a hosted service and we maintain all the infrastructure. We play nicely with an expanding list of leading technologies, including:
No database required! We're a SaaS CMS or CaaS. You simply call our Content API from your app. We host and maintain all of the CMS infrastructure.
Do you host my templates?
Unlike CMSs you might be used to, we don't control or host any of your templates. The design of your app (HTML + CSS) lives in your application along side the rest of your app. Your application calls our Content API and we return your content in JSON format. You can then render this content in any way you'd like.
Can I import my content?
Yep. To import existing content from another platform, simply send us an email.
How do you compare to WordPress?
In short, we offer all the same easy-to-use editing capabilities of WordPress but are significantly easier for developers to setup and maintain. This means you spend less time working on your CMS and more time focusing on things important to your business.
Can I self host Butter?
No, we're a SaaS CMS or CaaS. You simply call our Content API from your app. We host and maintain all of the CMS infrastructure.
For more information on how we compare to a traditional CMS, check out API-based CMS vs Traditional CMS on the Butter blog. Do you have more questions? Read our FAQ below, or feel free to chat with us directly.
