How to Choose a Headless CMS Without Regretting It

A headless CMS decouples content editing from front-end display, but the crowded market makes choosing one tricky. The right pick depends on who edits content—engineers, marketers, or both—and how structured the content is. For content-heavy marketing sites, API-first CMS like Sanity or Strapi work well; for app data, a simple database is often better.