Stet vs Strapi

Side by side.

The same seven questions, asked of both. Checked against published documentation in July 2026.

Question	Stet	SStrapi
Who models the content	Stet Marketing, in the UI. Collections, maps and fields with no deploy.	Strapi Either. The content-type builder is in the UI, but it writes schema files, so production changes go through a deploy.
Types in your app	Stet A typed client generated from the live model by a Vite plugin.	Strapi Generated inside the Strapi project. Apps consuming the API typically hand-write their own.
When the model changes	Stet A removed field becomes a deprecation in the types. The build stays green.	Strapi No deprecation path for the applications reading the API.
Analytics	Stet Included. First-party and cookieless, through your own infrastructure.	Strapi Not included.
AI	Stet Included. Drafting, suggestions and delegated tasks, approving every write.	Strapi Available on paid tiers.
Hosting and licence	Stet Hosted cloud or self-hosted. Open source.	Strapi Self-hosted or Strapi Cloud. Open source, MIT.
How pricing works	Stet $10 per user per month. Free to self-host.	Strapi Free to self-host. Cloud is priced per project, from $35 per month.

What Strapi does better.

Genuinely open source under MIT, self-hostable anywhere, with a plugin system and a large community behind it.

1import { stet } from '@stetcms/client';2 3const post = await stet.posts.get('hello-world');4 5post.

The fields from that collection, arriving in the editor as typed properties on the generated client.

When to pick Strapi instead.

Pick Strapi if you want a mature open source CMS on your own servers with a plugin ecosystem, and your content model is stable enough that changing it through a deploy is not a problem.

Other comparisons.

The same seven questions, asked of everything else teams weigh Stet against.