If updating your website involves sending an email to a developer and waiting days for a simple text change, you're losing time and money. Here's what a modern CMS changes.
The Old Way Is Costing You
Traditional CMS setups create bottlenecks:
- Marketing needs a landing page → waits for dev
- Sales wants to update pricing → waits for dev
- Someone notices a typo → waits for dev
Multiply this by every request over a year, and you're looking at dozens of hours of developer time spent on content changes that editors could handle themselves.
What a Modern CMS Gives You
Decap CMS and Keystatic represent two different approaches to solving this, both with compelling advantages:
Decap CMS
- Open source, free forever
- Familiar, WordPress-like editing experience
- Works with any static site generator
- Great for teams migrating from traditional CMS
Keystatic
- Git-native: content lives in your repository
- Real-time collaboration
- Structured content with type-safe schemas
- Excellent developer experience
Which Should You Choose?
Both tools can power the same Astro website. The choice depends on your team:
- Choose Decap CMS if your editors want a familiar, form-based UI
- Choose Keystatic if your developers want tight integration with their workflow
Or — as this demo shows — you can run both and let different teams use different tools for different content types.
Getting Started
The barrier to entry has never been lower. Both CMSes are free, open-source, and can be set up in an afternoon. If you're still on a legacy system, there's no better time to modernise.