DatoCMS Reviews (49)

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DatoCMS Reviews (49)

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Users consistently praise the flexibility and ease of use of DatoCMS, highlighting its intuitive interface and powerful content modeling capabilities that cater to both developers and non-technical users. The responsive support team further enhances the experience, making it a reliable choice for managing content. However, some users note that the pricing structure can be a concern for smaller projects.

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Verified User in Consulting
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"A flexible and well-rounded CMS, with top-notch editor & developer experience"
5/5
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

It is clear that the Dato team has put a lot of effort in understanding their users' needs. They value their customers and provide excellent support.

From a developer standpoint, DatoCMS is simply amazing. There are just so many good features and the CMS is really easy to implement. The docs are great and thorough. The dozen of available starter projects help you get going real fast. The GraphQL Content Delivery API allows for full typesafety when using Typescript and codegen. Webhooks work great. And what I like the most, by building your own custom plugins, it is possible to extend the functionality of DatoCMS in any imaginable way. True flexibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

I have actually not found anything to dislike about DatoCMS in comparison to other CMS platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fran M.
FM
Fran M.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great CMS system"
5/5
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

The flexibility to build and update quickly, easy to use and very few errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

Would be great to have bigger storage on lower tier plans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Darina P.
DP
Darina P.
PR and Marketing Manager
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Exceptional Experience with DatoCMS"
5/5
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

As a marketing manager, I've had an exceptional experience with DatoCMS. What I like best about DatoCMS is its user-friendly interface, flexibility, and robust management capabilities. It has greatly streamlined our content workflow and made it easy to manage our website content effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

I have found no major dislikes about DatoCMS; it has consistently met and exceeded our expectations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yuriy A.
YA
Yuriy A.
CEO
Computer Networking
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"most partner-friendly CMS out there"
5/5
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

It's easy to develop with DatoCMS our devs were able to put the first bits in the same day as we registered

The interface is simple.

DatoCMS provides great capabilities to Agencies and their customers - no need for an agency user in each customer account and collaborators solve issues with shared accounts which is a great addition to security

Pricing is affordable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

So far, everything is good.

Of course, there are some small things here and there,

but it's more a matter of my tastes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lorenzo D.
LD
Lorenzo D.
IT Manager
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy to user CMS with fantastic support team"
5/5
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

* really easy to use

* great support team

* flexible pricing

* customizable sidebar Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

Sometiems the search function does not work as expected Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andrej R.
AR
Andrej R.
Digital Marketing Specialist
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great tool, great support"
5/5
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

Probably the best headless CMS out there. Helpful and responsive support. Generous free plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

More plan options besides free and professional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AR
Alessandro R.
Head of Development & Delivery
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"I never regretted choosing DatoCMS"
5/5
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

DatoCMS has the features you need, not more of them not any less. I will be totally honest: in the first place, I appreciated its pricing as it has a very low starting point which was affordable for a startup. The preview feature with NextJS is game-changer, this integration is so powerful! I was very happy with its CDN: being able to share static assets with two clicks with such performance is vital for a startup like us.

Adding internationalization to our homepage was super easy and quick. Integrating its Webhooks to existing Deployment Pipelines (Azure Pipelines in our case) was easy and fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

I won't compare here Headless CMS versus Traditional full-blown CMS as they are different paradigms with pros and cons that apply to all the products, not Dato specifically.

I wasn't able to create a unique immutable URL for a PDF I uploaded in the DatoCMS Content CDN: I need to have a PDF with a URL that never changes even if I update the content, but I had to write some custom code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Explore S.
ES
Explore S.
Full-stack developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"A very complete and fast CMS"
5/5
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

We choose DatoCMS because we needed an easy way to implement localization in our pages, migrate all of our pages to a WYSIWYG format with no complications and manage roles for the people in the company.

And this CMS has everything that we needed, a lot of plugins, libraries to integrate it with React, excellent localization management, very good performance and an amazing way to manage webhooks.

DatoCMS has everything that we need! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

This may be a bit technical review, but something very very complicated is updating content in specific fields types. For example, I have a big modular block and I wanted to create the content of it from a script written in Nodejs, as I didn't how to do it, I had to make a change manually in the model, check the browser's console -> network, expand the request and look for that field to see the format that DatoCMS uses to save it, then copy that structure into my Nodejs script and adapt it to save the information that I needed.

Another thing that I struggled with, is translating a structured text but keeping the format of the original content. This was veeery dificult to me, but I managed to make it. I think that is something very normal that you have an english blog post and you want to translate it to french/italian or any other language, but you want to keep the original format of the WYSIWYG editor.

Those are things that I have to take a looot of time to figure out how to do it, but I was able to. I'm not saying that the CMS is worse than other ones because of my feedback, not at all, I think Dato is the better one with no doubts. But IMHO those things could be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Virgil I.
VI
Virgil I.
Creative Director
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Hands down the best headless CMS available – and with sensible pricing, too"
5/5
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

DatoCMS allows you to create a fully customised CMS backend for JAMstack websites. You can model data structures accurately while allowing editors the ability to easily manage content. Data can then be pulled down into your app via a variety of APIs which work well. The system is responsive and the developers are friendly and genuinely engaged with how their product is used. Sensible pricing is offered, meaning that even smaller companies can benefit from this great product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

The CMS user interface – already the best on the market – could still be better if there was a final layer of usability polish applied. Some terminology is still designed for highly technical end-users. The interface is very solid but there are also occasionally bugs. Some parts of some of the APIs are not as well documented as I'd like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Primoz R.
PR
Primoz R.
Digital Marketing Specialist
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great product and even better support"
5/5
What do you like best about DatoCMS?

1. Great and responsive customer support

2. Great user interface of the app

3. Small and agile team with fast feature releases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DatoCMS?

Nothing really serious. If I have to pick something:

1. Simpler live previews

2. Missing some of the features of big competitors, but nothing breaking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.