Cosmic
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveA headless CMS with built-in AI agents that draft, translate, and publish content across multiple sites from one dashboard.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $99/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Free forever plan covers 2 team members, 1 bucket, 1,000 objects and one AI agent. Builder is $99/month (2 buckets, 5,000 objects, 3 agents), Team $299, Business $499, with yearly billing 10% off; usage above the allowance is metered rather than blocked, extra members are $29 each per month, and webhooks, localization, revision history and backups are paid add-ons.
Use tool ↗About Cosmic
Cosmic is a hosted content backend that lets marketing and content teams publish to websites and apps without needing an engineer for every change. Content lives in structured buckets accessed through a REST API, SDKs, or a CLI, with framework integrations for Next.js, Nuxt, Astro, and others. On top of the usual headless-CMS editing tools, Cosmic adds configurable AI agents and workflows that can draft, translate, and publish content across several sites, brands, or locales from a single dashboard. The company has run the product since 2016 and prices it by how many content buckets, team seats, and objects you need.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing page: Free $0, Builder $99/month ($1,069/year), Team $299, Business $499, Enterprise custom; extra team members $29/month; webhooks, localization, revision history and backups sold as add-ons; Workspaces from $999/month (15 October 2026)cosmicjs.com ↗
- Home page: AI-native managed headless CMS with REST API and SDK, CLI, MCP server, AI agents, workflows and an agent marketplace (15 October 2026)cosmicjs.com ↗
Is Cosmic legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Apr 28, 2014 (12 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC, looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Dec 13, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2016The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- Cosmic, United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Cosmic
Cosmic fits teams that already think in terms of an API-driven content backend but want the content team, not engineering, doing day-to-day publishing across several sites or locales. The AI agents are a layer on top of a fairly conventional headless CMS, so the value depends on whether you need multi-site or multi-locale publishing at all.
Pros
- Free tier has no credit card requirement and includes one AI agent
- Official framework integrations reduce setup work for developers
- AI agents can draft, translate, and publish rather than just editing text
Cons
- Paid plans jump quickly in price once you need more than a couple of buckets or team members
- Extra features like webhooks and localization cost separate monthly add-on fees
- Requires developer setup even though the pitch targets content teams
Best for
- Teams running content across multiple brands or locales from one system
- Developers who want a headless CMS with official Next.js, Nuxt, and Astro integrations
- Content teams that want to publish without filing engineering tickets
Not for
- Solo bloggers who just need a simple website builder
- Teams wanting an all-in-one website builder rather than a separate CMS plus frontend
Watch out: Webhooks, localization, and revision history are paid add-ons on top of the plan price, not included by default; check the add-on cost before assuming a plan covers them.
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