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title: "Spinal"
description: "Best scheduled publishing for a Markdown marketing blog. $39/mo. Number 14 of 16 in the Git-based CMS ranking, checked against spinalcms.com on 2026-09-03."
url: "https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/spinal"
updated: "2026-09-04"
source: "bestgitbasedcms.com"
---

# Spinal

> Best scheduled publishing for a Markdown marketing blog. $39/mo. Number 14 of 16 in the Git-based CMS ranking, checked against spinalcms.com on 2026-09-03.

Source: https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/spinal. 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.

- Rank: 14 of 16
- Category: Git-based panel
- Price: $39/mo
- Model: Hosted Markdown CMS
- Setup: Connect GitHub, pick folders
- Review flow: Roles only, no approval
- Git hosts: GitHub only
- Site: https://spinalcms.com
- Profile: https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/spinal
- Facts checked: 2026-09-03 against spinalcms.com

## What Spinal is

Spinal is a hosted CMS for the Markdown in a GitHub repository, built around written marketing content: a WYSIWYG editor, draft and scheduled statuses, and optional kanban and calendar power-ups. Team members sign up with email and password, and it lists Eleventy, Astro, Hugo, Jekyll, Docusaurus, and a dozen other generators.

It is one $39 per month plan with a five-member minimum, GitHub-only, and while Authors cannot publish, there is no approval flow beyond that role split. Copy outside Markdown is out of scope.

## Why it is number 14

Scheduling and a content calendar for a Markdown blog. $39/mo with a five-member minimum.

## Pros

- Scheduling and a content calendar for a blog team
- Editors sign in with email, no GitHub accounts
- Hosted in the EU, no CMS code in your site

## Cons

Skip it if one of these is a deal-breaker.

- $39/mo with a 5-member minimum, card required for the trial
- Markdown content only, GitHub only
- Role split, but no per-edit review

## Pricing

Pro $39/mo (5 members minimum, $4 per extra member; 1,000 entries, 10 collections); power-ups $9/mo each; 7-day trial, card required.

| Model | Setup | Review flow | Price |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hosted Markdown CMS | Connect GitHub, pick folders | Roles only, no approval | $39/mo |

Prices are what spinalcms.com printed on 2026-09-03. Check before you buy.

## Alternatives to Spinal

- [Decap CMS](https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/decap-cms): Best battle-tested free panel. #2 in the ranking, Free.
- [Keystatic](https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/keystatic): Best for technical editors who want clean files. #4 in the ranking, Free; Cloud from $10/mo.
- [Sveltia CMS](https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/sveltia-cms): Best modern take on the free panel. #5 in the ranking, Free (MIT).

Tags: Hosted, Markdown, Scheduling, EU-hosted.

Previous in the ranking: Unfreez (#13), https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/unfreez

Next in the ranking: Netlify Visual Editor (#15), https://bestgitbasedcms.com/tools/netlify-visual-editor

Full ranking: https://bestgitbasedcms.com/