Community Edition
Price: Free forever
Open source. Unlimited users and content types.
- Visual editing, in context
- Localization
- Headless or standalone
- SEO tools
- Basic permissions
- Style editor
- SSO
License pricing
ApostropheCMS is free and open source at its core, and includes on-page visual editing, localization, SEO tools, SSO and more. Pro adds support for advanced features like sophisticated permissions, document versions and more. Assembly offers per-site pricing for a multitenant architecture.
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Apostrophe Pro
Price: $199/mo
5 editors included. $19/mo for each additional editor.
Everything in the Community Edition, plus:- Advanced Permissions
- AI-Powered Translations and SEO
- Warranty Support
- Editor-Created Templates
- Document Versions
- And more
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Apostrophe Assembly
Price: $499/mo
Includes 5 sites. Additional sites $99/mo. Volume pricing available at 10+ sites.
Assembly is built for teams that deliver sites to their own customers: one codebase, many client sites, with the tools to provision and manage them at scale. Everything in Pro, plus:- Multitenant dashboard
- White-label delivery
- Non-developer site provisioning
- Priority support
- Solutions
Delivering sites to your own customers?
Assembly is purpose-built for that model. Your team builds and maintains one codebase. Your clients get their own editing environment. You control what they can change.
| Features | Community | Pro | Assembly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core | |||
| Unlimited users, pages, custom content types | Included for Community | Add per user fee after 5 users | Included for Assembly |
| In-context editing | Included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Blogs, Events | Included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Form Builder | Included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Import / Export | Included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| SEO, SSO | Included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Localization | Included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Media Library, image editing | Included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Video support | Included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Editor Workflow, sharable previews | Included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Scheduled publishing | Included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Styles Editor | Included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Deployment | |||
| Full-stack + Headless deployment | Included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| REST APIs | Included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Self-hosting, Managed hosting, Review environments | Included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
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| Document Versions | — Not included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Document and Section Template Library / builders | — Not included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| AI-powered Automatic Translations | — Not included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Advanced Permissions (groups, per-doc, per-locale) | — Not included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Account signup | — Not included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Data Set (CSV → HTML tables) | — Not included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Automated testing Tools | — Not included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Warranty support | — Not included for Community | Included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Support portal and direct channels | — Not included for Community | Available | Available |
| Assembly adds ↓ | |||
| Multitenant dashboard | — Not included for Community | — Not included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Multisite architecture (single codebase, many sites) | — Not included for Community | — Not included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| White label capabilities | — Not included for Community | — Not included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
| Cross-site template sharing | — Not included for Community | — Not included for Pro | Included for Assembly |
- Solutions
Do you also need hosting?
Backed by Amazon Web Services, our hosting platform provides a clean push-to-deploy workflow, containerized security, and a CLI for easy debugging.
License Pricing FAQ
Anyone who logs into ApostropheCMS to create, edit, or manage content. Developers who only access the codebase do not count.
Multiple Pro installs means separate codebases, separate billing, and no shared component library. Assembly is one codebase that provisions isolated tenant sites from a central dashboard — your team manages the platform, your clients manage their own content. It's a fundamentally different architecture, not just a bundle.
Yes. Contact us and we'll handle the transition.
Five client sites, the multitenant dashboard, white-label delivery, the styles editor, and non-developer site provisioning. Additional sites are $99/mo. Volume pricing is available at 10+ sites.
Yes. Localization is part of the open source edition with no per-language fees.
Both are fully supported. Self-hosting gives you complete control over your infrastructure. Managed hosting removes the DevOps overhead. You can start with one and switch later.