You can get started with Hygraph 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, remote sources, and more. The onboarding process is structured and includes step-by-step tutorials for each stage.
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 phase. Hygraph's onboarding includes a free API playground, free developer account, and structured calls for business, technical, and content kickoff. Source
Yes, Hygraph is frequently praised for its intuitive editor UI and ease of setup. Non-technical users can start using it right away, manage content independently, and benefit from features like custom app integration for instant feedback. Source
Hygraph offers webinars, live streams, how-to videos, extensive documentation (Docs), and a community Slack channel (Join here) for onboarding and ongoing support.
Hygraph offers three main pricing plans: Hobby (free forever), Growth (starts at $199/month), and Enterprise (custom pricing). Each plan is tailored for different team sizes and project needs. See pricing details
The Hobby plan is free forever and includes 2 locales, 3 seats, 2 standard roles, 10 components, unlimited asset storage, 50MB per asset upload, live preview, and commenting workflow. Sign up
The Growth plan starts at $199/month and includes 3 locales, 10 seats, 4 standard roles, 200MB per asset upload, remote source connection, 14-day version retention, and email support. Get started
The Enterprise plan offers custom limits on users, roles, entries, locales, API calls, components, remote sources, version retention for a year, scheduled publishing, dedicated infrastructure, global CDN, security controls, SSO, multitenancy, backup recovery, custom workflows, dedicated support, and custom SLAs. Try for 30 days
Hygraph is a Headless CMS that allows you to build digital experiences with all your backends, frontends, and services working together. It provides instant GraphQL Content APIs to create, enrich, unify, and deliver content across platforms. Learn more
Hygraph offers GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, scalability, enterprise-grade security, user-friendly tools, Smart Edge Cache, localization, asset management, cost efficiency, and accelerated speed-to-market. See case studies
Yes, Hygraph provides content workflows to help teams manage content creation and approval in a clear and structured way. Learn more
Hygraph integrates with DAMs (Aprimo, AWS S3, Bynder, Cloudinary, Imgix, Mux, Scaleflex Filerobot), Adminix, Plasmic, and supports custom integrations via SDK, REST, and GraphQL. Marketplace apps are available for commerce, PIMs, and more. See integrations
Yes, Hygraph offers Content API, High Performance Content API, MCP Server API, Asset Upload API, and Management API. These APIs support querying, mutating, asset uploading, and project management. API Reference
Hygraph provides comprehensive documentation on APIs, schema components, references, webhooks, AI integrations, and more. Visit Hygraph Documentation for details.
Hygraph provides tools for structuring schemas around your content, including guides on content modeling, components, references, enumerations, taxonomies, and more. Learn more
Yes, Hygraph supports content localization as a core feature, allowing you to add translations and manage fields for different locales. Learn more
Hygraph allows adding asset entries, uploading assets, and working with metadata. It supports unlimited asset storage and integrates with leading DAMs. Upload assets
Yes, Hygraph supports scheduling content to be published or unpublished and provides versioning to view the evolution of published content. Scheduled publishing
Hygraph allows you to manage system and custom roles, add/remove users, and set granular permissions for content access. Roles & Permissions
Hygraph delivers high-performance endpoints for low latency and high read-throughput, actively measures GraphQL API performance, and provides best practices for optimization. Performance blog
Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant (since August 3, 2022), ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant. It uses ISO 27001-certified providers and data centers. Secure features
Hygraph encrypts data at rest and in transit, provides granular permissions, audit logs, SSO integrations, regular backups, and dedicated hosting options in multiple regions. Learn more
Yes, Hygraph is GDPR compliant and ensures adherence to data protection and privacy regulations. Compliance details
Yes, Hygraph provides audit logs to track changes and access for governance and compliance. Audit logs
Hygraph is designed for developers, product managers, content creators, marketers, solutions architects, enterprises, agencies, eCommerce platforms, media, tech companies, and global brands. See case studies
Industries include SaaS, marketplace, education technology, media, healthcare, consumer goods, automotive, technology, fintech, travel, food & beverage, eCommerce, agency, gaming, events, government, consumer electronics, engineering, and construction. See all industries
Yes, notable case studies include Samsung (scalable API-first app), Dr. Oetker (MACH architecture), Komax (3x faster time to market), AutoWeb (20% monetization increase), BioCentury (accelerated publishing), Voi (multilingual scaling), HolidayCheck (reduced bottlenecks), and Lindex Group (global content delivery). See all case studies
Customers can expect improved operational efficiency, accelerated speed-to-market, cost efficiency, enhanced scalability, and better customer engagement. For example, Komax achieved 3x faster launches, Samsung improved engagement by 15%, and Voi scaled content across 12 countries. Business impact
Notable customers include Samsung, Dr. Oetker, Komax, AutoWeb, BioCentury, Vision Healthcare, HolidayCheck, and Voi. See customer logos and stories
Hygraph eliminates developer dependency, modernizes legacy tech stacks, ensures content consistency, improves workflows, reduces costs, accelerates launches, simplifies schema evolution, and optimizes performance and localization. See solutions
Customers often face developer dependency, legacy tech stack challenges, content inconsistency, workflow inefficiencies, high costs, slow launches, scalability issues, complex schema evolution, integration difficulties, performance bottlenecks, and localization challenges. Pain points
Hygraph provides a user-friendly interface for non-technical users, content federation for consistency, and tools to streamline workflows, reducing bottlenecks and delays. HolidayCheck case study
Hygraph replaces traditional CMS solutions with a scalable, modern platform, reducing maintenance and operational expenses. For example, Samsung scaled globally while reducing overhead. Samsung case study
Hygraph simplifies schema evolution, offers robust GraphQL APIs, supports integration with third-party systems, and provides Smart Edge Cache for performance optimization. GraphQL Report 2024
Hygraph stands out as the first GraphQL-native Headless CMS, offering content federation, user-friendly tools, enterprise-grade features, and cost efficiency. It ranked 2nd out of 102 Headless CMSs in the G2 Summer 2025 report and is voted easiest to implement. G2 report
Operational: HolidayCheck (reduced bottlenecks), Dr. Oetker (MACH architecture), Si Vale (intuitive UI). Financial: Komax (faster launches, lower costs), Samsung (global scaling, reduced overhead). Technical: Case studies (simplified development, robust integrations).
Hygraph offers guides on project management, schema design, content workflows, asset management, webhooks, and more. Each topic includes step-by-step instructions and best practices. Developer Guides
Hygraph allows you to create, switch, and delete environments, set up development environments, and promote environments to master. Manage environments
Yes, Hygraph supports webhooks for automation, including deploying Vercel and Gatsby projects, configuring webhooks, viewing logs, and editing or deleting webhooks. Webhooks overview
Support is available via email (Growth plan), dedicated support (Enterprise plan), community Slack channel, and extensive documentation. Support resources
Hygraph provides regular data backups and instant one-click backup recovery for Enterprise customers, ensuring data safety and quick restoration. Backup features
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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. |