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The Headless CMS for Developers

Build Faster. Stay Flexible. Skip the Maintenance.

ButterCMS is the API-first CMS that fits your stack and your workflow so you can launch quickly and scale without friction.

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What today’s builders do with ButterCMS

6 Core Developer Benefits

Focus on features,
not fixes

Reduce CMS maintenance

  • Avoid patching, plugin updates, and surprise version issues
  • Offload maintenance to a fully managed backend
  • Stay focused on product, not platform upkeep

Give marketing full publishing control

Enable marketer independence

  • Set up structured content that marketers can manage with confidence
  • Empower them to create, edit, and publish on their own
  • Enable real-time previews and instant publishing 

Launch with your stack, your way

Build faster with modern tools

  • Use React, Next.js, Vue, Nuxt, Django, and more
  • Build with Write API and Image API
  • Deploy to production without CMS blockers or bloat

Own the UX from first pixel to final render

Maintain full frontend control

  • Customize every experience 
  • Deliver performance-optimized, design-perfect frontends
  • Keep your codebase clean with true headless architecture

Start simple and grow without replatforming

Build now, scale later

  • Model content at the component level for future flexibility
  • Support multi-site, multi-language, and multi-brand from day one
  • Grow without creating tech debt

Get answers when and how you need them

Unblock your workflow

  • Troubleshoot with clear, developer-friendly docs
  • Reach real humans when you need support
  • Solve problems quickly with dev-to-dev in-app support

API-first content delivery

Works with your stack

Real dev support and fast onboarding

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We've had a great experience using ButterCMS. It gives our marketing team control over all their content and lets our engineers stay focused on improving their product. It's truly the best of both worlds.

Peter Sankauskas CTO & AWS Community Hero

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