So easy to use. So easy to customize. You’re going to love the content you build better with ButterCMS.
Handy integration with Next.js
Our Next CMS has a simple content API and drop-in Next 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 Next. Zero headache.
Drop our API-based CMS into your Next app in minutes.
ButterCMS provides a component-based CMS and content API for Next and Next.js apps. Use ButterCMS to enable dynamic content in your apps for page content, blogs, and anything else. Most customers get our Next 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.
See how Butter’s API enables you to compose flexible page layouts and easily reorder components, without a developer.
“Best CMS on the market”
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
Deploy our Next.JS starter in 30 seconds
Or follow the below commands to clone a copy of the repo from github, install dependencies, set your free Butter token, and
run your local server on localhost:3000/.
$ git clone https://github.com/ButterCMS/nextjs-starter-buttercms.git
$ cd nextjs-starter-buttercms
$ npm install # or yarn install
$ echo 'NEXT_PUBLIC_BUTTER_CMS_API_KEY=your_free_api_token_here' >> .env
$ npm run dev # or yarn dev
Built to make content marketing easy
ButterCMS is the best headless CMS for Next for a simple reason: Next 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 Next 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 Next or Next.js app.
See how easily you can integrate the ButterCMS Pages API with your Next.js app.
Seamless Next components
Empower your marketing team with dynamic landing pages that align perfectly with your Next components.
Components are the essential building blocks of any Next app, and ButterCMS handles them with ease.
Our drag and drop interface makes it simple to structure your content to match existing Next components and to create new reusable components whenever you need them.
One Next CMS with everything you need
There’s a reason so many developers are choosing a headless Next CMS. It’s easy to set up, offers flexible, customizable content modeling, and gives you access to our full Next API.
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.