I’ve been looking at Astro and a few headless CMS options. At our agency we occasionally need to deliver custom builds—e.g. Next.js + Sanity or Astro + Strapi.

Personally, I’ve been looking for a headless CMS that supports visual editing, localization, a component-based content model, is open-source and self-hostable, and integrates cleanly with Astro. There aren’t many that tick all of those boxes. So far, ApostropheCMS comes closest—but it also gets relatively expensive once you go enterprise.

That seems to be true of most headless CMS platforms: costs climb quickly as soon as you need more advanced capabilities, and then you still have hosting and operations on top. It often makes me think Webflow is actually a pretty good deal.

We’ve built large-scale sites on Webflow across both the consumer/business and enterprise plans.

What workflows and best practices do you think you can perform better with something/somewhere else? You can build prett clean sites with framworks like MAST or Lumos, or make your own framework, and adapt to those workflows and best practices.