# Ghost vs Webflow

> Webflow scores 69.4 (B) on agent readiness against Ghost's 58.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Ghost leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do cms content. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Webflow scores 69.4 (B) on agent readiness against Ghost's 58.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Ghost leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do cms content.

- Ghost: grade C, 58.3/100, rank #455 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ghost.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ghost.json
- Webflow: grade B, 69.4/100, rank #160 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/webflow.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/webflow.json

## Which one, for what

### Ghost (C)

Good for: A publication, blog or newsletter where an agent drafts posts and a person or a higher role publishes.

Ahead on:
- Payments & pricing, 50 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 85 against 80

Also in its favour:
- Open source

Watch for: No OpenAPI or other machine-readable description of the Admin API was found in the docs or the repository

### Webflow (B)

Good for: Teams whose website already runs on Webflow and who want an agent to draft, update and publish CMS items, fix metadata or manage assets.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 87 against 51
- Security & auth, 74 against 56
- Transparency & trust, 81 against 72

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for: The MCP server documents 34 tools (27 data, 3 Designer session, 4 utility), each with several actions, and a granted tool grants all its actions


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Ghost | Webflow | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 80 | 79 | Ghost +1 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 51 | 87 | Webflow +36 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 72 | Webflow +3 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 56 | 74 | Webflow +18 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 30 | Ghost +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 80 | Ghost +5 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 81 | Webflow +9 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -7 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **58.3 · C** | **69.4 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Ghost | Webflow |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Ghost Foundation | Webflow, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.webflow.com/v2` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT, copyright Ghost Foundation. Ghost(Pro) is a paid hosting service under the Ghost Foundation's terms | Proprietary service under Webflow's Terms of Service. The OpenAPI spec, the JavaScript and Python SDKs and the open-source MCP server on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 34 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.webflow/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2023-11-15 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2025-03-17 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| 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 | 56k stars, 24k npm/wk | 85k npm/wk, 121k PyPI/wk |

## Verdicts

**Ghost.** A create needs only a title, updates are checked against `updated_at` so a stale write is refused, and a Contributor's staff token can draft without being able to publish. The Admin API has no OpenAPI file and one fixed permission set per integration, and 20 security advisories were published between 3 September and 1 October 2026.

**Webflow.** The Data API has a public OpenAPI 3.1 spec with 140 operations, scoped OAuth and site tokens, and CMS items that stay drafts until a separate publish call. The MCP server loads 34 multi-action tools and can't create new localised CMS items. The free plan holds 50 CMS items, and the activity log needs the $2,500 Team plan.

## Before you call either

### Ghost

1. Sign a fresh HS256 token for each batch of calls. Decode the hex secret to bytes, set `kid` to the key id, `aud` to `/admin/` and `exp` at most 5 minutes ahead
2. Set `status` to `draft` on every create unless told to publish, and publish later with a PUT that sets `status` to `published`
3. GET the post before each PUT and send its `updated_at` back. Tags and authors in a PUT replace the existing lists
4. Send content as a Lexical JSON string, or add `?source=html` and send `html`. The HTML conversion is lossy unless wrapped in an HTML card
5. Page through lists with `limit` up to 100 and `page`. Since Ghost 6.0 `limit=all` returns 100 items without an error

### Webflow

1. Send the token as `Authorization: Bearer` to https://api.webflow.com/v2. Ask for `cms:read` and `cms:write` only, plus `sites:write` if the task publishes
2. Create or update items first, then call Publish Items or Publish Site. An item with `isDraft` true and a `lastPublished` date is live with unpublished changes
3. Stay under 60 requests a minute on Starter and Basic and 120 on Premium, read X-RateLimit-Remaining, and wait for Retry-After on 429
4. Page item lists with `limit` (maximum 100) and `offset`, and filter with `filter[<fieldSlug>][<operator>]`, up to 10 terms
5. Upload an asset in two steps (create the asset with a file hash, then POST the bytes to the presigned URL). Write localised content with the item's `cmsLocaleId`

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Ghost or Webflow?

Webflow scores 69.4 (B) on agent readiness against Ghost's 58.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Ghost leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community.

### Do Ghost and Webflow need an API key?

Ghost needs an API key. Webflow takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call Ghost and Webflow without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Ghost. Webflow has a hosted endpoint at https://api.webflow.com/v2.

### Are Ghost and Webflow open source?

Ghost is open source (MIT, copyright Ghost Foundation. Ghost(Pro) is a paid hosting service under the Ghost Foundation's terms). No open-source release is listed for Webflow.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-vs-webflow.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-vs-webflow.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "ghost", "b": "webflow"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare ghost webflow`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ghost.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/webflow.json

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