🆚 ButterCMS vs. Payload CMS
- 📈 Payload CMS is much more popular than ButterCMS.
- 🌎 Payload CMS is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 ButterCMS is more popular in Ireland.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Content management system
Content management system
About
ButterCMS is a cloud-based, enterprise-grade, headless content management system.
Payload is an open-source application framework and headless CMS built with Next.js that supports both self-hosting and cloud deployment.
It features automatic REST and GraphQL APIs from code-defined schemas, supports
MongoDB and
Postgres databases, and provides versioning and drafts, field-level localization, over 20 field types, granular access control, live preview, and a block-based layout builder.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free version ❌
Micro $119/month
Startup $239/month
Small Business $449/month
Enterprise Custom
Free ✔️ Self-hosted, open source
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Payload CMS platform is 12 times more popular than ButterCMS.
Total websites
Market share
CMS
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Payload CMS is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while ButterCMS is more popular in Ireland.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Australia
India
Sweden
Netherlands
Canada
France
Poland
Awards
- ⬆️ 34th most popular in the United States in the CMS category.
- ⬆️ 38th most popular in the United Kingdom in the CMS category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Payload CMS is more popular than ButterCMS in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Health
Software/Hardware
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Finance/Banking
Travel
Real Estate
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.


