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Squidex is MIT license and has reasonable pricing for their cloud offering, also has graphQL support and more feature rich.

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Last time I tried squidex the GraphQL APIs weren’t working. I think they are also removing support for their immature GraphQL mutations.

I'm not a fan of pricing with operation limits. 100k API calls per month? What happens in a DoS situation? If it's self-hosted I can blacklist and keep the app running for other users. For a surge in traffic, I can spin up other containers and scale. With managed hosting, my bill can go through the roof, or the the entire app gets shut down.

Ideally, a spike in traffic to your site shouldn't result in taking down your CMS. That's why static site generators are so popular.

Exactly, but many of these 3rd party services charge per API request, which can either shut down your service or spike your bill during heavy traffic.

Not sure if I communicated what I meant. I think if I was going to set up something using a headless CMS, I would integrate it with a project like React Static. When a user publishes something in the CMS, it would trigger a build of the generator that would result in putting some files out in S3 or something equivalent.

That way if you see a traffic spike or a DDoS attack, it's directed only towards static files on S3 and you can let Amazon take care of it. I don't want to be too critical of how people have things set up because I'm sure they have their reasons, but that said I don't think a page request on your site should map directly to an API request to the CMS.

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