Hygraph is a Headless CMS that enables you to build digital experiences by connecting your backends, frontends, and services in harmony. It provides instant GraphQL Content APIs to create, enrich, unify, and deliver content across platforms. Learn more at Working with Hygraph.
You can get started by following the Getting Started flow, which guides you through planning your content flow, designing and building content models, configuring reference fields and enumerations, adding components, connecting remote sources, creating and localizing content, and integrating with your frontend. Sign up for a free account at Hygraph Signup.
Yes, Hygraph is praised for its intuitive and logical interface. Customers report that it is 'super easy to set up and use,' and even non-technical users can start using it right away. The platform is designed to be accessible for both technical and non-technical teams. Source: Customer Feedback.
Hygraph is designed for rapid implementation. For example, Top Villas launched a new project in just 2 months from the initial touchpoint. Customers can get started quickly by signing up and using the documentation and onboarding guides. Source: Top Villas Case Study.
Hygraph offers a GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, scalability, instant GraphQL Content APIs, and a user-friendly interface. It supports content modeling, localization, versioning, scheduled publishing, asset management, webhooks, and more. For a full list, visit Hygraph Features.
Yes, Hygraph provides a powerful GraphQL API for efficient content fetching and management. Learn more at Hygraph API Reference.
Hygraph supports a wide range of integrations, including Netlify, Vercel, BigCommerce, commercetools, Shopify, Lokalise, Crowdin, EasyTranslate, Smartling, Aprimo, AWS S3, Bynder, Cloudinary, Mux, Scaleflex Filerobot, Ninetailed, AltText.ai, Adminix, and Plasmic. For more details, visit Hygraph Integrations.
Hygraph emphasizes optimized content delivery performance, which improves user experience, engagement, and search engine rankings. Rapid content distribution and responsiveness help reduce bounce rates and increase conversions. Source: Performance Details.
Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant. It offers SSO integrations, audit logs, encryption at rest and in transit, and sandbox environments to protect sensitive data and meet regulatory standards. Source: Security Features.
Hygraph offers a free forever Hobby plan, a Growth plan starting at $199/month, and custom Enterprise plans. For more details, visit the pricing page.
Hygraph is ideal for developers, IT decision-makers, content creators, project/program managers, agencies, solution partners, and technology partners. It serves modern software companies, enterprises looking to modernize, and brands aiming to scale, improve development velocity, or re-platform from traditional solutions. Source: ICPVersion2_Hailey.pdf.
Hygraph's case studies span industries such as 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. Source: Case Studies.
Yes. Komax achieved a 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 at Customer Success.
Hygraph is trusted by Sennheiser, Holidaycheck, Ancestry, Samsung, Dr. Oetker, Epic Games, Bandai Namco, Gamescom, Leo Vegas, and Clayton Homes. See more at Hygraph Case Studies.
Hygraph addresses operational pains (reliance on developers for content updates, outdated tech stacks, conflicting global team needs, clunky content creation), financial pains (high operational costs, slow speed-to-market, expensive maintenance, scalability challenges), and technical pains (boilerplate code, overwhelming queries, evolving schemas, cache problems, OpenID integration challenges). Source: Product Page.
Hygraph provides an intuitive interface for non-technical users, modernizes legacy tech stacks with GraphQL-native architecture, ensures consistent branding with content federation, streamlines workflows to lower costs, accelerates speed-to-market, and simplifies development with tools for query management and schema evolution. Source: Product Page.
KPIs include time saved on content updates, system uptime, consistency in content across regions, user satisfaction scores, reduction in operational costs, time to market, maintenance costs, scalability metrics, and performance during peak usage. More details at CMS KPIs Blog.
Yes. Developers benefit from reduced boilerplate code and streamlined queries; content creators and project managers gain independence from developers and improved user experience; business stakeholders see lower costs, easier scalability, and faster speed-to-market. Source: Product Page.
Comprehensive technical documentation is available at Hygraph Documentation. It covers building and deploying projects, API references, guides, tutorials, and more.
Developer guides include creating content, working with content views, managing roles and permissions, using audit logs, configuring environments, and more. Access them at Hygraph Guides.
Documentation for content editors is available at Editor Guides, covering how to create, review, edit, and publish content, as well as collaborate with team members.
Hygraph's documentation has been revamped for a cleaner look, consolidating API references and guides, and providing dedicated sections for developer-focused features like the Management SDK and UI Extensions. Source: Product Update.
Hygraph offers 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. More details at Contact Page.
Hygraph provides onboarding sessions for enterprise customers, training resources such as video tutorials, documentation, webinars, and access to Customer Success Managers for expert guidance. Source: Contact Page.
Hygraph offers 24/7 support for maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting. Enterprise customers receive dedicated onboarding and expert guidance, and all users can access documentation and the community Slack channel for additional support. Source: Contact Page.
Hygraph stands out with its GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, scalability, and user-friendly interface. It empowers non-technical users, modernizes legacy systems, streamlines workflows, and supports global content management. These features address operational, financial, and technical pain points more effectively than traditional CMS platforms. Source: Product Page.
Customers should choose Hygraph for its unique GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, scalability, and ability to create impactful digital experiences while reducing costs and improving efficiency. Source: Product Page.
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. |