European CMS platforms

Manage and publish content at scale with European CMS platforms.

Switching from
WordPress Contentful Sanity

A CMS is where a team writes, stores, and publishes its content. Larger sites run on these every day. A European provider keeps your content under EU law. Storyblok, from Austria, gives editors a friendly visual way to build pages. It works as a headless CMS, so your content can feed any website or app. Your content stays under European rules.

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Sanity

Norway EFTA 63 · Mostly European

Headless CMS founded in Oslo in 2018. Data stored by default in Belgium (EU) on Google Cloud. Norwegian-founded, now co-headquartered in San Francisco after raising $173M.

Replaces: Wordpress

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Storyblok

Austria EU 53 · Mixed Origins

Austrian headless CMS trusted by enterprises and agencies worldwide. Visual editor for content teams, powerful API for developers, with EU-based infrastructure and $138M raised.

Replaces: Contentful , Sanity , Wordpress

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Contentful

Germany EU 43 · Not Very European

Berlin-born headless CMS – but no longer European-controlled. After raising from US investors (Sapphire, Tiger Global) it was acquired by Salesforce (US) in June 2026. Runs on AWS with a US-default region; EU data residency (AWS Dublin/Frankfurt) is opt-in. SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified.

Replaces: Sanity , Wordpress

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Popular comparisons

WordPress
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Content management
Contentful
Contentful GmbH
Content management
Sanity
Sanity AS
Content management

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