Hygraph is the new name for GraphCMS, marking the next milestone in the company's journey to build the content platform of the future. The rebrand reflects a commitment to enabling outstanding digital experiences and introduces new features like Content Federation. (Source: GraphCMS is now Hygraph, July 12, 2022)
The name Hygraph is inspired by the concepts of Hypertext and graph data structures, aligning with the company's vision for a future where information is highly complex, structured, and connected. (Source: About the Name)
Hygraph aims to be the content platform of the future, enabling organizations to unify backend services, streamline content delivery, and support complex, distributed architectures with modern, scalable solutions. (Source: GraphCMS is now Hygraph)
The refreshed Hygraph identity and look reinforce the company's commitment to enabling outstanding digital experiences and supporting modern content architectures. (Source: GraphCMS is now Hygraph)
Content Federation is a feature that allows users to unify all backend services into one universal content API, serving third-party or programmatically created content alongside editorial content. It enables integration of content from various sources without migration, reducing development time and costs. (Source: Introducing the Federated Content Platform)
Hygraph enables true composability by allowing customers to extend its Content API with content from different sources, supporting modular architectures and reducing backend complexity. (Source: Introducing the Federated Content Platform)
Remote Sources are systems or products that hold content to be combined with Hygraph content, accessible via RESTful or GraphQL APIs. This allows for flexible integration of external data without migration. (Source: Introducing the Federated Content Platform)
Hygraph's Content Federation delivers up-to-date content directly from source systems, reducing risks related to data integrity and ensuring consistent content delivery across channels. (Source: Introducing the Federated Content Platform)
Hygraph provides enterprise-scale content distribution with high performance for large payloads, global low latency, 190 edge points of presence, and a powerful caching system. (Source: Our commitment to Performance)
Hygraph offers fine-grained permissions, workflows, and features like components to facilitate collaboration between content creators, developers, and business stakeholders. (Source: Our commitment to Content & Collaboration)
The Hygraph Marketplace provides integrations with major DAM, hosting, translation, and personalization platforms, supporting extensibility and composability. (Source: Our commitment to Extensibility)
The App Framework, entering public beta, allows for greater extensibility of the Hygraph platform, enabling users to build custom apps and integrations. (Source: Our commitment to Extensibility)
Hygraph invests in its GraphQL offering with regular feature releases and improvements, and contributes to the GraphQL Foundation and related conferences. (Source: Our commitment to GraphQL)
The architecture includes Remote Sources, Custom Types, Remote Fields, and a configurable TTL-based caching layer for optimal API performance. (Source: Introducing the Federated Content Platform)
Hygraph offers three main pricing plans: Hobby (free forever), Growth (starting at $199/month), and Enterprise (custom pricing). Each plan is tailored to different team sizes and project needs. (Source: Hygraph Pricing)
The Hobby plan is free forever and includes 2 locales, 3 seats, 2 standard roles, 10 components, unlimited asset storage, 50MB per asset upload size, live preview, and commenting workflow. (Source: Hygraph Pricing)
The Growth plan starts at $199 per month and includes 3 locales, 10 seats, 4 standard roles, 200MB per asset upload size, remote source connection, 14-day version retention, and email support. (Source: Hygraph Pricing)
The Enterprise plan offers custom limits, version retention for a year, scheduled publishing, dedicated infrastructure, global CDN, advanced security, SSO, multitenancy, instant backup recovery, custom workflows, and dedicated support. (Source: Hygraph Pricing)
Yes, Hygraph offers a 30-day free trial for the Enterprise plan. (Source: Enterprise Trial)
Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant (since August 3, 2022), ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant, ensuring high standards for security and data protection. (Source: Secure features page)
Hygraph uses encryption at rest and in transit, granular permissions, audit logs, SSO integrations, regular backups, and dedicated hosting options to protect customer data. (Source: Secure features page)
Yes, Hygraph offers shared or dedicated hosting in multiple regions to ensure compliance with local regulations. (Source: Secure features page)
Hygraph provides a process for reporting security, confidentiality, integrity, and availability failures, incidents, concerns, and complaints. (Source: Secure features page)
Hygraph offers multiple APIs: Content API, High Performance Content API, MCP Server API, Asset Upload API, and Management API. Each serves different content management and integration needs. (Source: API Reference Documentation)
Hygraph integrates with DAM platforms (Aprimo, AWS S3, Bynder, Cloudinary, Imgix, Mux, Scaleflex Filerobot), Adminix, Plasmic, and supports custom integrations via SDKs and APIs. (Source: Integrations Documentation)
Comprehensive technical documentation is available at Hygraph Documentation, covering APIs, schema components, references, webhooks, and AI integrations.
Yes, Hygraph provides documentation and support for AI Agents, AI Assist, and MCP Server integrations. (Source: AI Agents Documentation)
Implementation time varies by project complexity. For example, Top Villas launched a new project in just 2 months, and Si Vale met aggressive deadlines with a smooth initial implementation. (Source: Top Villas Case Study)
Hygraph offers a free API playground, free forever developer account, structured onboarding, training resources, extensive documentation, and a community Slack channel for support. (Source: Hygraph Documentation)
Hygraph is used by companies like Samsung, Dr. Oetker, Komax, AutoWeb, BioCentury, Vision Healthcare, HolidayCheck, and Voi, across industries such as SaaS, eCommerce, media, healthcare, and more. (Source: Case Studies)
Industries include SaaS, Marketplace, EdTech, Media, Healthcare, Consumer Goods, Automotive, Technology, FinTech, Travel, Food & Beverage, eCommerce, Agency, Gaming, Events, Government, Consumer Electronics, Engineering, and Construction. (Source: Case Studies)
Yes. Samsung built a scalable API-first app, Komax achieved 3x faster time to market, AutoWeb saw a 20% increase in monetization, and Voi scaled multilingual content across 12 countries. (Source: Case Studies)
Customers can expect improved operational efficiency, accelerated speed-to-market, cost efficiency, enhanced scalability, and better customer engagement. (Source: Case Studies)
Hygraph is ideal for developers, product managers, content creators, marketers, and solutions architects at enterprises, agencies, eCommerce, media, tech companies, and global brands. (Source: ICPVersion2_Hailey.pdf, Case Studies)
Hygraph addresses operational inefficiencies (eliminating developer dependency, modernizing legacy stacks), financial challenges (cost reduction, faster launches), and technical issues (schema evolution, integration, performance, localization, asset management). (Source: Hailey Feed - PMF Research.xlsx)
Hygraph stands out with its GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, user-friendly tools, cost efficiency, robust APIs, Smart Edge Cache, and advanced localization and asset management. (Source: Hailey Feed - PMF Research.xlsx)
Customers often face developer dependency, legacy tech stacks, content inconsistency, workflow challenges, high costs, slow speed-to-market, scalability issues, complex schema evolution, integration difficulties, performance bottlenecks, and localization challenges. (Source: Hailey Feed - PMF Research.xlsx)
Hygraph provides a user-friendly interface for non-technical users, reduces developer dependency, and streamlines workflows with intuitive tools and collaboration features. (Source: Hailey Feed - PMF Research.xlsx)
Hygraph simplifies schema evolution, offers robust GraphQL APIs, supports content federation, and provides performance optimization features like Smart Edge Cache. (Source: Hailey Feed - PMF Research.xlsx)
Customers praise Hygraph for its intuitive UI, ease of setup, custom app integration, independent content management, and real-time changes. Some note it can be complex for less technical users. (Source: Hailey Feed - PMF Research.xlsx, Try Hygraph)
Hygraph is the first GraphQL-native Headless CMS, offers content federation, enterprise-grade features, user-friendly tools, scalability, and has been ranked 2nd out of 102 Headless CMSs in the G2 Summer 2025 report. (Source: Case Studies, G2 Summer 2025)
Hygraph stands out for its GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, enterprise features, user-friendly tools, scalability, proven ROI, and market recognition. (Source: Case Studies)
Key benefits include GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, scalability, enterprise-grade security, user-friendly tools, Smart Edge Cache, localization, cost efficiency, and accelerated speed-to-market. (Source: manual)
Written by Michael & Daniel
on Jul 12, 2022Today we’re thrilled to announce the next milestone in our journey to build the content platform of the future. GraphCMS is now Hygraph.
Our refreshed identity and new look reinforce the commitment we have made toward enabling outstanding digital experiences on day one. We're also proud to introduce Content Federation, a new set of features enabling our users to unify all their backend services into one universal content API and serve third-party or programmatically created content alongside editorial content.
While cross-platform content consumption and API-first delivery became the new normal, content architectures are growing increasingly complex again.
With the rise of best-of-breed systems design and modular architectures, content is now maintained in a myriad of disconnected data silos, resulting in an overwhelming complexity. The risk of serving outdated data and lack of data consistency in distributed architectures is becoming a maintenance burden.
Many organizations perceive custom middleware development as a solution to these challenges, but building and maintaining this is time-consuming and complex.
With the new Content Federation capability, you can bring content from other systems and sources to the Hygraph API, without having to migrate the content itself. There are many use cases where moving content into the content repository isn’t possible or desirable. Examples include content for which there is a different system of record (e-commerce/product data such as price or availability, content from a different vendor such as GitHub or IMDB) and content that is maintained in legacy systems that can’t be easily migrated.
Our concept of Remote Sources allows customers to extend Hygraph’s Content API with content from all these different sources, providing flexibility for front-end developers and downstream applications.
The Hygraph Content Federation architecture consists of the following components:
Hygraph allows true composability of your tech stack while taking away the heavy-lifting in the backend. Content federation leads to a massive reduction in development time and costs when integrating with multiple APIs.
That said, the benefits are not limited to the cost of ownership. Content Federation also removes risks related to data integrity by always delivering up-to-date content from your sources.
Read the full release announcement here.
In 2017, we set out with a simple goal: to create the first headless content management system that is completely GraphQL native. Scaling & performance considerations were at the heart of our decisions. Today, we provide content API capabilities beyond the competition in function and scale.
Since then, developer experience has become one of our main value propositions. Developers in some of the most successful organizations make use of our powerful GraphQL APIs to continue building with their preferred workflows, languages, frameworks, tools, and services.
Today, Hygraph powers over 50,000 projects, including those at companies like Dr.Oetker, Philips, Samsung, Ashley Furniture.
Our goal is to provide the best technology and support possible to the GraphQL community so that you can build incredible products. We continue to invest in our GraphQL offering, with new features and improvements released every month.
We also contribute to the community via our involvement in the GraphQL foundation and GraphQL and GraphQL Scale Conferences.
Content creation is a collaborative process. It takes a team of content creators to develop and execute a content strategy. That said, collaboration is not restricted to the confines of the creative team, we believe the collaboration with domain experts, development teams and business stakeholders, including external ones is equally important.
Hygraph allows you to manage and collaborate on your content pipeline with ease, speed, and safety thanks to fine-grained permissions and workflows, while decreasing dependency between developers and content creators thanks to features like components.
This week, we will also release the ability to set up nested components!
An opinionated monolith cannot keep up with the changing needs of your organization. Since our early days, we have advocated for existing and new investments working together.
The recent introduction of our marketplace is the fruition of this viewpoint. Hygraph Marketplace already covers major DAM, hosting, translation & personalization platforms.
Over the next weeks, our new App Framework will enter public beta which will allow for much better extensibility of the platform.
The Hygraph delivery infrastructure enables enterprise scale content distribution with high performance for large payloads aimed at global low latency.
No matter where in the world your team or audience is located, you can be confident in the performance of your content with Hygraph’s globally distributed infrastructure, 190 edge points of presence, and extremely powerful caching system.
With the launch of our new Content Federation capabilities, we are rolling out a much improved caching implementation for an even faster content delivery.
The Hygraph name is rooted in an amalgamation of Hypertext, one of the most important concepts behind the World Wide Web, and graph data structures which aligns well with the company’s vision of a future where the majority of the information humans and machines will process are highly complex, structured and connected.
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