Traditional CMS such as Wordpress or Drupal are monolithic systems that include the backend UI, plugins, front-end templates, CSS, a web server and database. They tend to be slower, heavier and require a lot of custom development to become responsive to various display devices. In recent years, traditional CMSs have evolved to overcome these challenges and are often calling themselves Headless although most of them are in fact Decoupled.

The Enterprise Edition is an extension of the Community Edition. So no need to start from scratch, the upgrade process is seamless. Once you have completed your purchase, we will provide you with a dedicated license key and an installation guide to unlock the extra features that are part of the Enterprise Edition (RBAC, SSO, etc).

Strapi is self-hosted. It's up to you to decide where to deploy and host your Strapi project. We have a list of deployment guides for Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, Google App Engine and Heroku. You can also use our 1-click deploy buttons and Docker installation.

A Strapi "project" is defined as a single Strapi application that contains a single "model structure" and the same model logic; but can be deployed in such a way as to handle large amounts of traffic.

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Thousands of companies such as Delivery Hero, Societe Generale and IBM are using Strapi in production today. Check out our showcase to see more examples.

Strapi is an open-source, Node.js-based, Headless CMS that saves developers a lot of development time while giving them the freedom to use their favorite tools and frameworks. Strapi also enables content editors to streamline content delivery (text, images, video, etc) across any device.

Traditional use cases include static websites, mobile apps, e-commerce, editorial and corporate websites. However, you can use Strapi to build any type of content-oriented applications including delivery to portable IoT devices or internal tools.

Strapi is actively sponsored and maintained by Strapi, Inc the company behind the Strapi open-source project. Visit the company page to learn more about the company and the team.

It usually takes developers less than 5 minutes to get up and running with Strapi. It will then take a few hours to get familiar with the source code, admin panel, and more advanced concepts to customize or integrate Strapi with other tools. You're not alone though, Strapi has an engaged and welcoming community that writes tutorials and helps each other out.