Berlin-founded but US-headquartered + heavily US-funded (Tiger Global, Sapphire, BlackRock); operates as the headless-CMS market anchor for our purposes.
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Berlin-founded but US-headquartered + heavily US-funded (Tiger Global, Sapphire, BlackRock); operates as the headless-CMS market anchor for our purposes.
All 5 alternatives ranked by compliance score, benchmarked against Contentful.
| Product | Score | Owner | CLOUD Act | Cert. | Pricing | Action |
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Contentful
benchmark · US
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1.0/5 | OWNERSHIP
Where ultimate control over the operating company sits.
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CLOUD ACT EXPOSURE
How exposed customer data is to US authorities under the CLOUD Act.
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SOC 2 no EU framework |
Freemium | your current |
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Storyblok
Austria
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VERIFIED SIGNALS
Jurisdiction
Transparency
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OWNERSHIP
Where ultimate control over the operating company sits.
|
CLOUD ACT EXPOSURE
How exposed customer data is to US authorities under the CLOUD Act.
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ISO/IEC 27001
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Freemium | View profile → |
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Strapi
France
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VERIFIED SIGNALS
Jurisdiction
Transparency
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OWNERSHIP
Where ultimate control over the operating company sits.
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CLOUD ACT EXPOSURE
How exposed customer data is to US authorities under the CLOUD Act.
|
SOC 2
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Freemium
€15 / mo
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View profile → |
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Hygraph
Germany
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VERIFIED SIGNALS
Jurisdiction
Transparency
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OWNERSHIP
Where ultimate control over the operating company sits.
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CLOUD ACT EXPOSURE
How exposed customer data is to US authorities under the CLOUD Act.
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ISO/IEC 27001
SOC 2
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Freemium
€39 / mo
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View profile → |
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Prismic
France
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VERIFIED SIGNALS
Jurisdiction
Transparency
|
OWNERSHIP
Where ultimate control over the operating company sits.
|
CLOUD ACT EXPOSURE
How exposed customer data is to US authorities under the CLOUD Act.
|
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Freemium
€7 / mo
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View profile → |
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DatoCMS
Italy
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VERIFIED SIGNALS
Jurisdiction
Transparency
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OWNERSHIP
Where ultimate control over the operating company sits.
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CLOUD ACT EXPOSURE
How exposed customer data is to US authorities under the CLOUD Act.
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Freemium
€39 / mo
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View profile → |
Ranked by feature parity + compliance score. Migration friction is weighted higher than feature breadth.
Austrian headless CMS (Linz, est. 2017); ISO 27001, enterprise customers (Disney, Netflix); Brighton Park US-PE led Series C.
Paris-based open-source headless CMS (founded 2017); MIT-licensed core, Strapi Cloud PaaS, US-VC-funded (Insight, CRV).
Berlin GraphQL-native headless CMS (formerly GraphCMS, founded 2017); enterprise clients incl. Samsung, LEGO; mostly EU-funded.
For every product we read the public DPA, sub-processors document, hosting region declaration, and corporate ownership records. Each is timestamped. Compliance score is editorial, re-verified quarterly. We never accept self-attestation.
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