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title: "All 16 Git-based CMS profiles"
description: "One profile per Git-based CMS: what it is, pros, cons, pricing and alternatives. 16 tools, in ranking order."
url: "https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools"
updated: "2026-09-04"
source: "bestgitbasedcms.com"
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# All 16 Git-based CMS profiles

> One profile per Git-based CMS: what it is, pros, cons, pricing and alternatives. 16 tools, in ranking order.

Source: https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools. Updated 2026-09-04. Written by Andrew Chemerynskiy.

Any page of this site has a Markdown version at its own address plus /index.md. The whole site is at /llms-full.txt, the index at /llms.txt.

| # | Tool | In one line | Price | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | CMS Brew | Best for agencies handing finished sites to non-technical clients | $39/mo, 5 sites | https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/cms-brew |
| 2 | Decap CMS | Best battle-tested free panel | Free | https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/decap-cms |
| 3 | TinaCMS | Best for React sites wanting in-place editing | OSS core; cloud from $29/mo | https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/tinacms |
| 4 | Keystatic | Best for technical editors who want clean files | Free; Cloud from $10/mo | https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/keystatic |
| 5 | Sveltia CMS | Best modern take on the free panel | Free (MIT) | https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/sveltia-cms |
| 6 | Pages CMS | Best free option with hosting and sign-in handled | Free (MIT) | https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/pages-cms |
| 7 | CloudCannon | Best hosted visual editing | From $55/mo + $10/user | https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/cloudcannon |
| 8 | Sitepins | Best free hosted panel for agencies, GitLab on paid tiers | Free tier; $12 to $49/mo | https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/sitepins |
| 9 | Front Matter CMS | Best for developers who edit content in VS Code | Free (MIT) | https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/front-matter |
| 10 | Outstatic | Best free dashboard for Markdown in a Next.js app | Free; PRO $9.99/user/mo | https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/outstatic |
| 11 | Nuxt Studio | Best free option if the site is Nuxt | Free (MIT) | https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/nuxt-studio |
| 12 | GitCMS | Best one-time price for a Markdown content layer | $49 one-time per site | https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/gitcms |
| 13 | Unfreez | Best client-billed click-to-edit layer for component copy | €90 per site per year | https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/unfreez |
| 14 | Spinal | Best scheduled publishing for a Markdown marketing blog | $39/mo | https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/spinal |
| 15 | Netlify Visual Editor | Best if the team already lives in Netlify | Netlify Pro $20/mo | https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/netlify-visual-editor |
| 16 | Siteleaf | Best hosted panel if the site is Jekyll | Unpublished; per site | https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/siteleaf |