What is Agility CMS?
Agility CMS is a commercial headless CMS that treats pages as a first-class feature. Most headless tools give you content entries and leave routing to the developer. Agility adds a sitemap, page templates and modules, so a marketer can create a page, choose its layout and place modules on it without a developer. Content is served through REST and GraphQL APIs, with open source JavaScript and .NET SDKs.
That page model is why teams pick it. It is a headless CMS for people who miss the page tree of a traditional CMS.
Who is it for?
Agility fits marketing sites where editors build and rearrange pages often, and where developers want a modern stack such as Next.js or .NET. It works for mid-size companies that outgrew WordPress page builders but do not want to give up page management.
As of October 2026 the vendor’s pricing page lists a free Proof of Concept, an Essentials plan at $699 per month and a custom Enterprise plan. Essentials includes 5 users and 25k entries, and Enterprise raises that to 50 users and 500k+ entries with data centres in the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia. Content models, locales and API requests are listed as unlimited on every plan. Check the page before budgeting, since plans change.
How is a project built?
Page and module design. We turn your design system into modules, each with fields editors can fill, and define page templates that decide where modules may go. The count of modules decides the editor experience, so we keep it small and composable.
Front end. The official Next.js starter and SDKs fetch the sitemap and page data. We handle routing, preview, caching and revalidation, and build modules as React components that match the CMS definitions. If your back office runs on .NET, the .NET SDK keeps the stack in one language.
Localisation. Agility supports multilingual content and localized publishing. We set up locales, fallback behaviour and translation handover with your vendor.
Integrations. Webhooks and the Management API connect Agility to commerce, search, forms and analytics. The Content Sync API helps when an app needs a local copy of content.
What does editor day to day look like?
An editor opens the sitemap, adds a page, picks a template and fills modules in order. Drafts, scheduling and approval steps sit on top of that. Because layout choices come from templates, brand consistency is enforced by the model, not by editor discipline. The cost is that a new layout needs a developer to add a module. We reduce that by building modules with options such as alignment, background and density, so editors have room to vary without tickets.
When is Agility not the right choice?
- You want to own the code and host it yourself. Agility is SaaS only. Look at Strapi or Payload.
- Your content is mostly structured data for apps, with few pages. A page model adds nothing there, and Contentful or Sanity are simpler.
- You need a very large community and a big pool of freelancers. Agility’s is smaller than Contentful’s.
- Your budget is a few dollars a month. The jump from free to $699 is steep for a small site; a git based CMS or Butter CMS costs less.
Our headless CMS overview compares these options side by side.
Migrating to Agility CMS
Moving from WordPress, Drupal or a legacy suite is mostly a mapping exercise: old templates become Agility templates, old blocks become modules, and the URL tree becomes the sitemap. We script the import so it can be rerun, preserve every URL that earns traffic, and set 301s for the rest. Editors get a staging instance to rehearse real work before launch. For the WordPress case see migrating WordPress to a headless CMS.
Hiring and cost
We take Agility projects end to end, or you can hire Agility CMS developers to join your team. Our rate band is $50 to $150 per hour, and fixed price work is quoted after a short audit of modules, locales and integrations.
