Strapi Development Company & Services

Our minimum engagement is $10,000, and most custom Strapi platforms land between $30,000 and $150,000. The main cost drivers are the number of content types and page templates, custom plugins and integrations, content migration, and whether we also build the front end. A focused v4-to-v5 upgrade or WordPress migration sits near the lower end; a data-heavy platform with programmatic SEO pages sits higher. After a short discovery call we send a fixed quote for defined work. For a quick ballpark first, use our web application cost calculator. Ongoing work can run on dedicated developers or time and materials.

Yes, in most cases. New features and fixes land in v5, and v4 is on a time-limited support window. The upgrade changes the data layer: the Document Service replaces the Entity Service and entries gain a stable documentId, so custom queries, lifecycle hooks and front-end API calls all need updating. We run it as a small project: audit custom code and third-party plugins, apply Strapi's codemods, hand-fix what they miss, update the Next.js or mobile client, then rehearse the data migration on a copy of production and compare record counts before switching over.

Strapi Cloud is better for content sites where the team wants no infrastructure to manage; self-hosting is better for data-heavy projects, custom infrastructure or data-residency requirements. Strapi Cloud handles the database and deployments for you, but check its plan limits against your traffic and data size. Self-hosting on AWS or another cloud gives full control of the database, region and scaling, and needs DevOps for updates, backups and monitoring, which we provide. We set up either option, and we can move an existing project between them when its needs change.

Yes. We built a custom Strapi plugin for importing WordPress content, and we pair it with a full URL inventory, 301 redirects and metadata parity so search rankings are protected through the switch. The content model is designed first, so posts, pages and custom fields land in clean Strapi types rather than one large rich-text field. Our guide to migrating WordPress to a headless CMS explains the steps. If the only problem is the editing experience, we will also tell you when keeping WordPress is the cheaper option.

Yes, with the right architecture. Schools18 manages 19,000+ schools in Strapi and Colleges18 holds data for 12,000+ colleges, both serving large sets of programmatic SEO pages. Three things make that work: lean populate queries that request only the fields and relations a page needs, database indexes on the columns your search and listing pages filter on, and a statically generated Next.js front end with on-demand revalidation, so most visitors never hit the Strapi API. Heavy jobs such as bulk imports, scraping or video generation run in separate queue-backed workers beside Strapi.

Choose Strapi when you are starting a new content model and want a JavaScript or TypeScript codebase you can extend with Node.js. Choose Directus when you already have a SQL database you want to keep, or when you need an internal data tool as much as a CMS. Both are open source and run on Node.js, but Strapi starts from the content model in code and Directus starts from the database. Our Strapi vs Directus comparison goes deeper, and the headless CMS development page compares both with Payload, Sanity and Contentful.

Yes to both. Most of our Strapi projects use Next.js with preview mode and on-demand revalidation triggered by Strapi webhooks, and we also connect Strapi to React Native apps and other API consumers. After launch we handle version updates, security patches, backups, monitoring and new features, either on a monthly plan or through dedicated Strapi developers. We also take over existing Strapi projects built by other teams: a short code audit comes first, so you know the state of the codebase and the upgrade path before we commit to a plan.