#Why Hygraph is a better alternative to ButterCMS?

ButterCMS is good for blog sites, marketing websites, or small-scale projects. However, unlike Hygraph, it lacks important capabilities required for large scale projects such as building an e-commerce site, portal, knowledge base, or digital products that require user-generated content.

Even for smaller projects, ButterCMS has limitations as it only provides a REST API; and no GraphQL API. This API is only for read operations on the standard plans, and read-write on the enterprise plans. There’s no API for content management or mutations.

From an extensibility perspective, you can’t connect ButterCMS to any third-party REST or GraphQL API. There’s no SDK to build custom plugins or applications to add functionalities to the platform.

Lastly, ButterCMS does not offer audit logs and neither the ability to choose your datacenter location; important capabilities needed by enterprises.

#Challenges you are likely to face with ButterCMS

You are likely to face these challenges when using ButterCMS:

• It offers a REST API for content delivery. Having a REST API as opposed to a GraphQL API, has its own limitations in terms of performance and functionality.
• It does not offer a management or mutations API.
• It only offers high-level permissions for content and no detailed permissions. For instance, you can allow a user to access “blogs”, but can’t add a condition (e.g., { "author": "John" }), or define stages.
• Custom roles and permissions are only available on enterprise plans.
• It does not offer the ability to create multiple Permanent Auth Tokens with detailed permissions for the API.
• It does not allow you to connect to any third-party API.
• It does not offer an app framework, plug-ins or UI extensions to connect to other platforms or add functionalities to the CMS.
• There are no other options to choose from and this is a challenge if you are looking to host in your own region.
• It offers no audit logs at the moment.
• It lacks depth when it comes to certain content management capabilities. For instance, it doesn’t offer custom content stages, batch edits, scheduling content as part of a release, advanced content search, and more.

On the other hand, Hygraph offers the capabilities to solve all of these challenges. Sign up for a free developer account to experience the difference.

#API and Core Features

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#Content Modelling

#Editorial Features and Content Management

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#Digital Asset Management

#Community and resources

Explore more references on our GitHub profile, or view examples created with Hygraph and popular frameworks like Gatsby, NextJS, Svelte, Gridsome, and Vue, amongst others.

#Plans and Pricing

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#Security, compliance, and support