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Contentful vs Decipher CMS: Stop Paying Per-Seat Taxes

Compare Contentful vs Decipher CMS. Discover how Decipher offers unlimited users, bulk SEO content generation, and 43% cost savings compared to Contentful's enterprise pricing.

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Unlimited Users

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Bulk SEO Content Generation.

Automated Keyword Research

Competitor Analysis

The Problem

Why teams outgrow Contentful

Contentful is widely considered the gold standard for API-first content delivery, but for growing marketing teams, its pricing model acts as a 'collaboration tax.' Because Contentful charges based on user seats and strict record limits, organizations are financially penalized for adding new team members. This often forces companies to share login credentials or limit platform access to a select few developers and editors, creating a bottleneck where legal, SEO, and product teams cannot directly contribute to the content workflow.

Furthermore, Contentful acts as an 'empty container'—it is a structured database that comes with no content. Marketing teams are left staring at a blank dashboard, requiring them to use disjointed third-party tools for drafting, keyword research, and optimization before manually migrating that content into the Contentful repository.

This disconnect between creation and management slows down speed-to-market significantly.

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The Solution

A content production engine — not just a database.

Decipher CMS fundamentally flips the headless model by offering 'Unlimited Users' on its enterprise plans, ensuring that your entire organization—from writers to legal compliance officers—can collaborate without triggering a price hike. More than just a repository, Decipher is an active production engine.

It solves the 'empty container' problem with 'Bulk SEO Content Generation.' You can use the native AI tools to generate hundreds of search-optimized articles, product descriptions, and landing pages instantly, populating your schema with high-value assets from day one. By integrating 'Automated Keyword Research' and 'Competitor Analysis' directly into the CMS, Decipher eliminates the need for external SEO tools, unifying the entire content lifecycle from ideation to API delivery in one workspace.

Stop renting an empty database. Start owning a production engine. Switch to Decipher CMS today.
Infrastructure

Enterprise-grade architecture — without the enterprise complexity.

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While Contentful operates as a multi-tenant SaaS 'black box' where you share infrastructure resources, Decipher offers a 'Private Infrastructure' model built on Google’s Firebase. This allows you to 'Deploy on your own infrastructure' (specifically your own Google Cloud Platform account), giving you complete control over data residency and security settings.

You benefit from 'Identity Aware Proxy' (IAP) and bank-level security standards inherited from Google, ensuring that your content pipeline meets the strictest enterprise compliance requirements (GDPR, SOC2) without the 'noisy neighbor' risks associated with shared SaaS environments.

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Pricing

Pricing that doesn't punish growth.

Transparent plans that scale with your content — not against you.

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Individual

For creators & growing teams

$99/month
  • AI-powered content generation
  • Built-in SEO optimization
  • Unlimited content pages
  • Custom domain & branding
  • Priority support
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Enterprise

For large teams & organizations

Starting at
$2,500/month
  • Everything in Individual
  • Dedicated account manager
  • SSO & advanced security (IAP)
  • Custom integrations & API
  • SLA & premium support
  • Data residency options
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Total cost savings of up to 43%Unlimited Use of the AI Writer and Editor100 High Quality Content Pieces per month

Total Cost of Ownership

The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) difference is stark. A typical enterprise SaaS contract for 50 users on Contentful can exceed $60,000 annually.

Decipher’s Enterprise License is a flat $2,000/month ($24,000/year), representing a 'Total cost savings of up to 43%'. For individual creators, Decipher’s $19.99/month plan includes 'Unlimited Use of the AI Writer and Editor' and '100 High Quality Content Pieces per month', democratizing access to enterprise-grade headless architecture that is usually gated behind six-figure contracts.

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