🆚 Ghost vs. Payload CMS
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Ghost is much more popular than Payload CMS.
- 🌎 Ghost is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Payload CMS is more popular in Iceland, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Ghana.
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Ghost is an open-source content management system built on Node.js. It is also available as a managed Pro service and supports newsletter delivery and paid member subscriptions.
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.
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- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Sweden in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in India in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the Netherlands in the Subscriptions category.
- ⬆️ 76th most popular in the United States in the CMS category.
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