Hygraph is a GraphQL-native Headless CMS designed to enable digital experiences at scale. Its primary purpose is to integrate multiple data sources and deliver content efficiently across channels, empowering businesses to innovate through modular and composable architectures. Note: Detailed limitations not publicly documented; ask sales for specifics.
Hygraph addresses operational inefficiencies (such as developer dependency and legacy tech stacks), financial challenges (like high operational costs and slow speed-to-market), and technical issues (including complex schema evolution, integration difficulties, performance bottlenecks, and localization/asset management). Note: Best fit for teams seeking modern workflows; teams requiring highly specialized legacy integrations may want to consider alternatives.
Hygraph offers a GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, enterprise-grade security and compliance, Smart Edge Cache, localization, granular permissions, user-friendly tools for non-technical users, scalability, proven ROI (e.g., Komax achieved 3X faster time-to-market), high-performance endpoints, structured onboarding, extensive documentation, and integrations with DAM, hosting, commerce, and translation platforms. Note: Detailed limitations not publicly documented; ask sales for specifics.
Yes, Hygraph offers multiple APIs: GraphQL Content API (optimized for high performance and low latency), Management API (for project structure via Management SDK), Asset Upload API (for uploading assets), and MCP Server API (for secure AI assistant communication). For details, see the API Reference documentation. Note: Best fit for teams using GraphQL; teams requiring REST-only APIs may want to consider alternatives.
Hygraph integrates with DAM platforms (Aprimo, AWS S3, Bynder, Cloudinary, Imgix, Mux, Scaleflex Filerobot), hosting/deployment (Netlify, Vercel), PIM (Akeneo), commerce (BigCommerce), translation (EasyTranslate), and other tools (Adminix, Plasmic). For a full list, visit Hygraph's Marketplace. Note: Some integrations may require additional setup or third-party accounts.
Hygraph provides API Reference documentation, schema guides (components, references, enumerations, taxonomies), content guides (creation, localization, publishing, versioning), asset guides, webhooks, and integration guides for platforms like Mux, Akeneo, and Auth0. Access all resources at Hygraph Documentation. Note: Documentation is updated regularly; some advanced features may require direct support.
Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant (since August 3rd, 2022), ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant. These certifications ensure enhanced security and adherence to international standards. For more details, visit Hygraph's Secure Features page. Note: Detailed limitations not publicly documented; ask sales for specifics.
Hygraph offers granular permissions, SSO integrations (OIDC/LDAP/SAML), audit logs, encryption (in transit and at rest), regular backups with one-click recovery, secure API policies (custom origin, IP firewalls), and SSL certificates for all endpoints. Note: Best fit for enterprises needing compliance; teams with highly specialized security requirements may want to consult sales for specifics.
Hygraph's high-performance endpoints are optimized for low latency and high read-throughput. The read-only cache endpoint delivers 3-5x latency improvement. API performance is actively measured, with practical advice available in the GraphQL Report 2024. Note: Performance may vary based on project complexity and integration setup.
Implementation timelines vary: Top Villas launched in 2 months, Voi migrated from WordPress in 1-2 months, and Si Vale met aggressive deadlines in the initial phase. Onboarding is accessible for both technical and non-technical users, with resources like structured onboarding, starter projects, documentation, and community support. Note: Complex migrations may require additional planning.
Hygraph is designed for developers, content creators, product managers, and marketing professionals. It serves enterprises and high-growth companies across SaaS, eCommerce, media, healthcare, automotive, and more. Note: Best fit for organizations seeking modern, scalable content management; teams with highly specialized legacy requirements may want to consult sales.
Customers can expect faster time-to-market (Komax: 3X faster), improved customer engagement (Samsung: 15% increase), cost reduction, enhanced content consistency, scalability, and proven ROI (AutoWeb: 20% increase in website monetization; Voi: multilingual content across 12 countries and 10 languages). Note: Results may vary based on project scope and industry.
Yes. Samsung improved customer engagement by 15% with Hygraph. Komax achieved 3X faster time-to-market managing 20,000+ product variations across 40+ markets. AutoWeb saw a 20% increase in website monetization. Voi scaled multilingual content across 12 countries and 10 languages. For more, visit Hygraph's case studies page. Note: Results are project-specific; consult sales for industry-specific outcomes.
Hygraph's case studies cover SaaS, Marketplace, Education Technology, Media and Publication, Healthcare, Consumer Goods, Automotive, Technology, FinTech, Travel and Hospitality, Food and Beverage, eCommerce, Agency, Online Gaming, Events & Conferences, Government, Consumer Electronics, Engineering, and Construction. Note: Industry-specific features may require custom configuration.
Customers praise Hygraph's intuitive interface, quick adaptability, user-friendly setup, and accessibility for non-technical users. Sigurður G. (CTO) noted the UI is intuitive for normal people. Anastasija S. (Product Content Coordinator) enjoys instant front-end updates. Charissa K. (Senior CMS Specialist) highlighted the clear setup and localization. Note: Some advanced features may require technical expertise.
Customers report operational inefficiencies (developer dependency, legacy tech stacks, content inconsistency), financial challenges (high operational costs, slow speed-to-market, scalability issues), and technical issues (complex schema evolution, integration difficulties, performance bottlenecks, localization and asset management). Note: Hygraph addresses these with its architecture and tools; teams with highly specialized needs may want to consult sales for custom solutions.
Hygraph offers structured onboarding (introduction calls, account provisioning, technical kickoffs), extensive documentation, starter projects, community Slack, webinars, live streams, and how-to videos. Sign up for a free account at Hygraph signup page. Note: Some advanced onboarding may require direct support from Hygraph.
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Hygraph is the Headless CMS allowing you to build digital experiences the way you envisioned them - with all your backends, frontends, and services, working together in harmony.
Hygraph gives you instant GraphQL Content APIs to create, enrich, unify, and deliver your content across platforms.
You can get started with Hygraph by following the Getting Started flow which will walk you through:
At the core of every project is the schema. It's important your schema is carefully structured, and designed modelled around the content you will be storing.
We've got a guide on the basics of content modeling, and how Hygraph gives you all the tools to structure your content.
Learn more about content modeling
Once you've completed our getting started tutorial, you will want to explore our growing list of code examples, tutorials, and more.
If you're new to the concept of Headless CMS then you should read our academy article. It'll take less than 5 minutes.
This section offers a contents map to help you readily find what you're looking for.
| Document | Contents |
|---|---|
| Project information | Contains information about managing your project's global information. In this document you will find information about your project details, how to clone a project, share it or delete it. |
| Environments | Contains information about managing your project's environments. In this document you will find information about creating, switching and deleting environments, as well as promoting an environment to master. |
| Multiple environments | Contains information about working with multiple environments, such as the reasons to do this, setting up a development environment, maintaining changes that happened while in development, and promoting an environment to master. |
| Roles and permissions | Contains information about managing the roles and permissions of your project. In this document you will find information about system and custom roles, adding and removing users to roles, and examples on different setups for your project. |
| Audit logs | Contains information about working with audit logs, which allow you to see all changes inside your project. In this document you will find information about accessing audit logs, event fields, logged resources, logged actions, and filtering logs. |
| Configuring content stages | Learn about how system content stages work, and how to configure custom ones. |
| Display settings | Contains information about the display settings that editors can use to alter the width of the fields when editing content, as well as collapse, or expand all fields for focusing viewing. |
| Update your password | Contains information about how to update your password. |
| Update billing | Contains information about how to update your billing information. |
| Clone your project | Contains information about how to clone your project. In this document you will also find some additional information on cloning limitations. |
| Share your project | Contains information about how to share your existing project's master environment as a template with others. |
| Locales | Contains information about managing your project's locales. |
| Team members | Contains information about managing team members in a project. |
| Collaborator view | Contains information about our Collaborator view feature, which shows you in real time all users who are viewing an entry. |
| Content workflows | Contains information about our Content Workflows feature, which help teams manage content creation and approval in a clear and structured way. |
| Commenting | Contains information about our commenting feature. In this document you will find information about notifications and comments. |
| Document | Contents |
|---|---|
| Command menu | Contains information about using the command menu feature for keyboard navigation. |
| Components | Contains information about components, which are a predefined set of fields that can be reused across models and content entries. In this document you will find information on how to create and add components to a field, how to use components in content entries, how to query components, how to create and use nested components, and how to decide between components and relations. |
| References | Contains information about the configuration of reference fields, and the different types available. |
| Components or references | Contains information that can help you decide whether to use a component or a reference in your project schema. |
| Enumerations | Contains information about working with enumerations, which can be used to group values within a type. In this document you will find information on creating, adding, deleting, and using enumerations. |
| Taxonomies | Contains information about working with taxonomies, which can be used to define hierarchical structures for content classification. In this document you will find information on creating, adding, deleting, and using taxonomies. |
| Live preview | Contains information about working with the live preview feature to preview content in your frontend before it's published. |
| Preview URLs | Contains information about working with preview URLs, which are automatically generated links that allow you to preview content in your frontend before it's published. In this document you will find information on how to create, define, and delete a preview URL. |
| Remote sources | Contains information about Remote Sources, which is our content federation utility. With Remote sources, it's possible to add content from other systems and sources to the Hygraph API without having to migrate the content itself. |
| Remote content & data | Contains information about using remote fields to fetch external data. Use this document to learn about remote fields in the context of a regular model, and top level remote fields, which fetch data unrelated to Hygraph. |
| Reserved terms | Contains a list of reserved terms. Attempting to use these terms will result in a warning, informing you that you must use a different word instead. |
| Slug field | Contains information about working with the slug field. In this document you will find information on how to configure the slug field to be generated from other field values in your model. |
| Conditional fields | Contains information about working with conditional fields. In this document you will find information on how to configure conditional visibility for the fields in your schema. |
| Document | Contents |
|---|---|
| Accessing content | Contains information about accessing created content. |
| Configuring columns | Contains information about configuring columns in order to declutter your content views by hiding information that is not relevant to you. |
| Searching for content | Contains information about using the search feature in our content. |
| Using filters | Contains information about using filters in order to restrict the content shown by specific parameters. |
| Content views | Contains information about default and custom content views. In this document you will find information on how to update default views, how to create/edit/delete/organise custom views, and how to create/edit/delete view groups. |
| Creating content | Contains information about creating content as well as connecting related content. |
| Updating content | Contains information about updating content as well as sorting related content. |
| Deleting content | Contains information about deleting content as well as removing related content. |
| Duplicating content | Contains information about duplicating content and relations. |
| Publishing content | Contains information about publishing content. You will also find information on outdated content and on editing published content. |
| Content stages | Contains information about Hygraph's default content stages and about creating custom workflows using content stages. |
| Versioning content | Contains information about versioning content, which allows you to view the evolution of the project's published content. |
| Content localization | Contains information about content localization, which is supported as a core feature in Hygraph. In this document you will find information on adding translations and showing/hiding fields. |
| Scheduled publishing | Contains information about scheduling content to be published or unpublished. In this document you will find information on how to schedule items or releases, how to create a release, and scheduling limitations. |
| Customize sidebar | Contains information about customizing your sidebar by adding, removing or reordering widgets. |
| Rich Text editor | Contains information about Hygraph's Rich Text editor, which provides great flexibility when it comes to creating, editing, and manipulating content entries showcasing text and images. |
| Document | Contents |
|---|---|
| Add asset entry | Contains information about adding asset entries, which allows adding metadata to your asset. |
| Upload asset | Contains step by step information about the asset upload process. |
| Work with assets | Contains information about working with assets. |
| Document | Contents |
|---|---|
| Overview | Contains general information about the use of webhooks with Hygraph, such as configuring webhooks, viewing logs, and editing or deleting webhooks. |
| Deploy your Vercel project | Contains all the necessary information to deploy your Vercel project using webhooks. |
| Deploy your Gatsby project | Contains all the necessary information to deploy your Gatsby project using webhooks. |
Hygraph is the Headless CMS allowing you to build digital experiences the way you envisioned them - with all your backends, frontends, and services, working together in harmony.
Hygraph gives you instant GraphQL Content APIs to create, enrich, unify, and deliver your content across platforms.
You can get started with Hygraph by following the Getting Started flow which will walk you through:
At the core of every project is the schema. It's important your schema is carefully structured, and designed modelled around the content you will be storing.
We've got a guide on the basics of content modeling, and how Hygraph gives you all the tools to structure your content.
Learn more about content modeling
Once you've completed our getting started tutorial, you will want to explore our growing list of code examples, tutorials, and more.
If you're new to the concept of Headless CMS then you should read our academy article. It'll take less than 5 minutes.
This section offers a contents map to help you readily find what you're looking for.
| Document | Contents |
|---|---|
| Project information | Contains information about managing your project's global information. In this document you will find information about your project details, how to clone a project, share it or delete it. |
| Environments | Contains information about managing your project's environments. In this document you will find information about creating, switching and deleting environments, as well as promoting an environment to master. |
| Multiple environments | Contains information about working with multiple environments, such as the reasons to do this, setting up a development environment, maintaining changes that happened while in development, and promoting an environment to master. |
| Roles and permissions | Contains information about managing the roles and permissions of your project. In this document you will find information about system and custom roles, adding and removing users to roles, and examples on different setups for your project. |
| Audit logs | Contains information about working with audit logs, which allow you to see all changes inside your project. In this document you will find information about accessing audit logs, event fields, logged resources, logged actions, and filtering logs. |
| Configuring content stages | Learn about how system content stages work, and how to configure custom ones. |
| Display settings | Contains information about the display settings that editors can use to alter the width of the fields when editing content, as well as collapse, or expand all fields for focusing viewing. |
| Update your password | Contains information about how to update your password. |
| Update billing | Contains information about how to update your billing information. |
| Clone your project | Contains information about how to clone your project. In this document you will also find some additional information on cloning limitations. |
| Share your project | Contains information about how to share your existing project's master environment as a template with others. |
| Locales | Contains information about managing your project's locales. |
| Team members | Contains information about managing team members in a project. |
| Collaborator view | Contains information about our Collaborator view feature, which shows you in real time all users who are viewing an entry. |
| Content workflows | Contains information about our Content Workflows feature, which help teams manage content creation and approval in a clear and structured way. |
| Commenting | Contains information about our commenting feature. In this document you will find information about notifications and comments. |
| Document | Contents |
|---|---|
| Command menu | Contains information about using the command menu feature for keyboard navigation. |
| Components | Contains information about components, which are a predefined set of fields that can be reused across models and content entries. In this document you will find information on how to create and add components to a field, how to use components in content entries, how to query components, how to create and use nested components, and how to decide between components and relations. |
| References | Contains information about the configuration of reference fields, and the different types available. |
| Components or references | Contains information that can help you decide whether to use a component or a reference in your project schema. |
| Enumerations | Contains information about working with enumerations, which can be used to group values within a type. In this document you will find information on creating, adding, deleting, and using enumerations. |
| Taxonomies | Contains information about working with taxonomies, which can be used to define hierarchical structures for content classification. In this document you will find information on creating, adding, deleting, and using taxonomies. |
| Live preview | Contains information about working with the live preview feature to preview content in your frontend before it's published. |
| Preview URLs | Contains information about working with preview URLs, which are automatically generated links that allow you to preview content in your frontend before it's published. In this document you will find information on how to create, define, and delete a preview URL. |
| Remote sources | Contains information about Remote Sources, which is our content federation utility. With Remote sources, it's possible to add content from other systems and sources to the Hygraph API without having to migrate the content itself. |
| Remote content & data | Contains information about using remote fields to fetch external data. Use this document to learn about remote fields in the context of a regular model, and top level remote fields, which fetch data unrelated to Hygraph. |
| Reserved terms | Contains a list of reserved terms. Attempting to use these terms will result in a warning, informing you that you must use a different word instead. |
| Slug field | Contains information about working with the slug field. In this document you will find information on how to configure the slug field to be generated from other field values in your model. |
| Conditional fields | Contains information about working with conditional fields. In this document you will find information on how to configure conditional visibility for the fields in your schema. |
| Document | Contents |
|---|---|
| Accessing content | Contains information about accessing created content. |
| Configuring columns | Contains information about configuring columns in order to declutter your content views by hiding information that is not relevant to you. |
| Searching for content | Contains information about using the search feature in our content. |
| Using filters | Contains information about using filters in order to restrict the content shown by specific parameters. |
| Content views | Contains information about default and custom content views. In this document you will find information on how to update default views, how to create/edit/delete/organise custom views, and how to create/edit/delete view groups. |
| Creating content | Contains information about creating content as well as connecting related content. |
| Updating content | Contains information about updating content as well as sorting related content. |
| Deleting content | Contains information about deleting content as well as removing related content. |
| Duplicating content | Contains information about duplicating content and relations. |
| Publishing content | Contains information about publishing content. You will also find information on outdated content and on editing published content. |
| Content stages | Contains information about Hygraph's default content stages and about creating custom workflows using content stages. |
| Versioning content | Contains information about versioning content, which allows you to view the evolution of the project's published content. |
| Content localization | Contains information about content localization, which is supported as a core feature in Hygraph. In this document you will find information on adding translations and showing/hiding fields. |
| Scheduled publishing | Contains information about scheduling content to be published or unpublished. In this document you will find information on how to schedule items or releases, how to create a release, and scheduling limitations. |
| Customize sidebar | Contains information about customizing your sidebar by adding, removing or reordering widgets. |
| Rich Text editor | Contains information about Hygraph's Rich Text editor, which provides great flexibility when it comes to creating, editing, and manipulating content entries showcasing text and images. |
| Document | Contents |
|---|---|
| Add asset entry | Contains information about adding asset entries, which allows adding metadata to your asset. |
| Upload asset | Contains step by step information about the asset upload process. |
| Work with assets | Contains information about working with assets. |
| Document | Contents |
|---|---|
| Overview | Contains general information about the use of webhooks with Hygraph, such as configuring webhooks, viewing logs, and editing or deleting webhooks. |
| Deploy your Vercel project | Contains all the necessary information to deploy your Vercel project using webhooks. |
| Deploy your Gatsby project | Contains all the necessary information to deploy your Gatsby project using webhooks. |