# Strapi vs WordPress (slim)

> Strapi and WordPress score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 65.7 (B) and 64.8 (B). WordPress leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do cms content. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Strapi and WordPress score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 65.7 (B) and 64.8 (B). WordPress leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do cms content.

- Strapi: B 65.7, rank #252 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/strapi.min.md
- WordPress: B 64.8, rank #272 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wordpress.min.md
- 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 Schema & documentation, 80 against 65.
- WordPress, good for Sites that already run WordPress, where an agent drafts posts and uploads media under a Contributor or Author account and a person publishes. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 74 against 65; Payments & pricing, 60 against 50. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Strapi | WordPress |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 82 | 78 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 65 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 66 | 62 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 87 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 72 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Strapi | WordPress |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Strapi, Inc. | WordPress.org (open-source project) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | 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 | GPL-2.0-or-later. The MCP Adapter plugin is GPL-2.0-or-later too |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-07 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-03-01 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 73k stars, 259k npm/wk | 21k stars |