# ButterCMS vs Strapi (slim)

> Strapi scores 65.7 (B) to ButterCMS's 53.3 (D) for content management. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Strapi scores 65.7 (B) on agent readiness against ButterCMS's 53.3 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do content management.

- ButterCMS: D 53.3, rank #711 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/buttercms.min.md
- Strapi: B 65.7, rank #312 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/strapi.min.md
- ButterCMS, good for A team already on a paid ButterCMS plan that wants an agent to draft and publish pages, collection items and blog posts in small volumes. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.
- Strapi, good for Teams that want to own their CMS and let an agent draft, localise and publish entries under a narrow token. Ahead on Security & auth, 66 against 36; Payments & pricing, 50 against 20; Maintenance & community, 87 against 27; Transparency & trust, 72 against 51. Also Open source.

| Category | ButterCMS | Strapi |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 83 | 82 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 64 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 36 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 27 | 87 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 51 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ButterCMS | Strapi |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | ButterCMS LLC | Strapi, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.buttercms.com/v2` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Licence | Proprietary service under ButterCMS's terms of service. The SDKs and starter projects on GitHub are MIT | MIT for the Community Edition. Code under ee/ directories is under Strapi's Enterprise Edition licence, and Strapi Cloud is a paid service under its own terms |
| Last release | 2025-09-04 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-10-07 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2022-08-15 | 2023-03-01 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 6.9k npm/wk | 73k stars, 259k npm/wk |