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Best free headless CMS for Next.js in 2026: five tiers compared
A developer compares five headless CMS options for Next.js projects, focusing on free tiers. Sanity offers 500k API requests and 1 GB bandwidth, Contentful provides 1M API calls but no GraphQL, and Storyblok limits to 10k API calls per month. Self-hosted options like Payload and Strapi avoid usage caps but require server costs.
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