What is Hygraph's pricing model?
Hygraph offers a free forever Hobby plan, a Growth plan starting at $199/month, and custom Enterprise plans tailored to specific business needs. For the most up-to-date details, visit the Hygraph pricing page.
Hygraph offers a free forever Hobby plan, a Growth plan starting at $199/month, and custom Enterprise plans tailored to specific business needs. For the most up-to-date details, visit the Hygraph pricing page.
Building a custom CMS can require 18-48 developer months for even basic functionality, plus ongoing maintenance costs for hosting, CDN, authentication, and developer time. In contrast, Hygraph's monthly costs start as low as $50, with enterprise-grade features available for a few thousand dollars per month. Switching costs are also lower due to Hygraph's modular, headless architecture. Source: Make vs. Buy Blog.
Hygraph provides a GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, scalability, UI Extensions, Custom Roles with granular access permissions, and a wide range of integrations (e.g., Netlify, Vercel, Shopify, AWS S3, Cloudinary, and more). For a full list, visit Hygraph Features and Integrations.
Yes, Hygraph integrates with platforms for hosting (Netlify, Vercel), eCommerce (Shopify, BigCommerce, commercetools), localization (Lokalise, Crowdin, EasyTranslate, Smartling), digital asset management (Aprimo, AWS S3, Bynder, Cloudinary, Mux, Scaleflex Filerobot), personalization (Ninetailed), AI (AltText.ai), and more. See the full list at Hygraph Integrations.
Yes, Hygraph provides a powerful GraphQL API for efficient content fetching and management. Learn more at Hygraph API Reference.
Hygraph is designed for rapid content distribution and responsiveness, which improves user experience, engagement, and search engine rankings. This helps reduce bounce rates and increase conversions. For more details, visit this page.
Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant. It offers features like SSO integrations, audit logs, encryption at rest and in transit, and sandbox environments to protect sensitive data and meet regulatory standards. For more, visit Hygraph Security Features.
Hygraph solves operational pains (reducing reliance on developers for content updates, modernizing legacy tech stacks, supporting global teams, improving user experience), financial pains (lowering operational and maintenance costs, accelerating speed-to-market, enabling scalability), and technical pains (simplifying development workflows, streamlining query management, resolving cache and integration challenges). Source: Hygraph Product Page.
Building your own CMS is costly and risky, requiring massive upfront investment, ongoing maintenance, and highly skilled experts. Custom CMSs are less scalable, harder to maintain, and present uncertainty in functionality. Hygraph's headless CMS provides customizability without these drawbacks. Source: Make vs. Buy Blog.
Risks include high upfront and ongoing costs, limited scalability, reliance on a small group of developers, difficulty managing as projects scale, and lack of community support. Source: CMS Transformation Blog.
Hygraph is ideal for developers, IT decision-makers, content creators, project/program managers, agencies, solution partners, and technology partners. Companies that benefit most include modern software companies, enterprises seeking to modernize, and brands aiming to scale across geographies or re-platform from traditional solutions. Source: ICPVersion2_Hailey.pdf.
Industries include Food and Beverage (Dr. Oetker), Consumer Electronics (Samsung), Automotive (AutoWeb), Healthcare (Vision Healthcare), Travel and Hospitality (HolidayCheck), Media and Publishing, eCommerce, SaaS (Bellhop), Marketplace, Education Technology, and Wellness and Fitness. See more at Hygraph Case Studies.
Yes. Komax achieved 3X faster time to market, Autoweb saw a 20% increase in website monetization, Samsung improved customer engagement with a scalable platform, and Dr. Oetker enhanced their digital experience using MACH architecture. More stories are available at Hygraph Product Page.
Notable customers include Sennheiser, Holidaycheck, Ancestry, Samsung, Dr. Oetker, Epic Games, Bandai Namco, Gamescom, Leo Vegas, and Clayton Homes. See more at Hygraph Case Studies.
Hygraph is designed for quick setup—even non-technical users can start right away. For example, Top Villas launched a new project in just 2 months. Users can sign up for a free account and access documentation, video tutorials, and onboarding guides. Source: Hygraph Documentation, Top Villas Case Study.
Comprehensive technical documentation is available, covering setup, API usage, integrations, and deployment. Access it at Hygraph Documentation.
Hygraph provides 24/7 support via chat, email, and phone. Enterprise customers receive dedicated onboarding and expert guidance. All users have access to documentation, video tutorials, and a community Slack channel. For more, visit Hygraph Contact Page.
Hygraph offers onboarding sessions for enterprise customers, training resources such as video tutorials, documentation, webinars, and access to Customer Success Managers for expert guidance. Source: Hygraph Contact Page.
Hygraph offers rapid setup (less than an hour for a website), lower upfront and ongoing costs, regular upgrades, and a modular architecture that simplifies switching vendors. Custom CMSs require significant developer resources, are harder to maintain, and present scalability challenges. Source: Make vs. Buy Blog.
Key metrics include time saved on content updates, system uptime, speed of deployment, consistency in content across regions, user satisfaction scores, reduction in operational costs, ROI, time to market, maintenance costs, scalability metrics, and performance during peak usage. For more, see CMS KPIs Blog.
Written by Alex
on Jul 07, 2019So you want the customizability of an in-house CMS without the associated costs and risks? Headless content management can bring you close to this dream. Building your own CMS is a dangerous journey you do not need to make anymore. Your developer resources are freed up and can now be fully invested in features that are directly related to your core business.
In theory, building your own CMS assures full customizability to your specific use case. In practice, a custom system is more likely to be a patchwork of compromises. It will be the result of internal politics struggling for prioritizing features that ultimately leaves everyone dissatisfied. It will fit your process at a specific moment of time but any later changes will require a rewrite of large parts of your code.
An un-opinionated, headless solution like Hygraph fits the widest range of content modeling and API design needs. Front-end and back-end are decoupled, so you are able to define and build all customer-facing features. Furthermore, features like UI Extensions and Custom Roles with granular access permissions enable you to adapt the CMS to even the most complex editorial processes.
You can set up an entire website in less than an hour with some of the commercial headless solutions like Hygraph – incl. content architecture, API design and connecting your frontend. For the developers out there, here is a repo with examples of how simple the Hygraph setup is with many popular languages and frameworks.
Building your in-house system will set you back months, maybe years, with designing, building, and debugging.
The total costs of an in-house CMS consist of large upfront and continuous ongoing maintenance costs. Upfront costs measured in developer time will set you back 18-48 developer months for the most basic CMS. Ongoing maintenance consists of costs for hosting, a CDN, an authentication layer, developer tools, and some dedicated developer time for monitoring and bug fixing.
The monthly costs for a headless CMS start as low as 50 USD. Even the most demanding enterprise companies won’t spend more than a few thousand dollars for the highest levels of service. Switching costs to a new vendor are also significantly lower thanks to the modular nature of a headless system. A native headless CMS like Hygraph is unopinionated allowing you to build your content infrastructure like lego-building-blocks. If you ever decide to move, you won’t need to build both your frontend and backend from scratch.
Best case, an in-house solution will fulfill your requirements only for a fixed period of time. If you never change your processes and never adopt new technology (e.g. smartphones or whatever comes next), that is ok. Probably, you will need to adapt to stay in business. So, you will need to extend your system in no later than 1-2 years. Once again, a new project team to brainstorm, innovate, build, test, deploy and bug-fix.
A headless CMS company’s bread and butter is in innovating. Upgrades will come regularly and at a much lower cost, if not grandfathered into the existing price. Selecting a young company with a growth-mindset means a constant in-flow of exciting new features for at least the next 5-7 years.
A complex solution like a headless CMS consists of multiple sub-systems that must work in perfect coordination. For many of these, you definitely don’t want to take care of maintaining them yourself: server set-up, security layer, authentication layer, digital asset management, and CDN setup to name a few. Other subsystems need to be built by engineers with hard-to-find expertise: content model APIs, GraphQL server setup, workflow design, user role design and more.
Some things are much better homebrew. Your mom’s pie and your core technology with your unique business logic? Definitely.
Others, however, are either commodities or require expert knowledge and skills – medical services, application hosting, content management software. No need to reinvent the wheel or take unnecessary risks.
Blog Author
Alex is the Head of Sales of Hygraph. Previously he's also been a co-founder of the science communication platform PaperHive and has appeared on the Forbes 30 under 30 Europe list for Social Entrepreneurs.
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