ButterCMS

ButterCMS is an API-first headless CMS marketers + developers love. Starting at ~$0/hour.

Install Add-on

Use any language/framework

Butter’s simple JSON API is easy to integrate with apps built in any language/framework. Butter plays well with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Meteor, Go, Laravel, PHP, Python, Flask, .NET, Django, Angular, React, Vue.js, Elixir, Phoenix, Salesforce, and more.

Setup in minutes

Get up and running in minutes using our SDK's.

Simple JSON API

Traditional CMS’s can become spaghetti webs of templates and database calls. With Butter your CMS stays decoupled as an external application and content is integrated via our JSON API.

Customizable CMS

Butter lets you configure custom content fields for any purpose. Butter is great for blogs, dynamic pages, FAQs, and more.

Built for SEO

Butter lets your blog live at yourdomain.com/blog (instead of blog.yourdomain.com) which performs 40% better.

Powerful Editor

Our editor is simple, clean, and friendly to non-technical users.

Blazing Fast

Butter’s API is served via Fastly’s CDN and caching network for lighting fast response times. Your media assets are stored and delivered via AWS Cloudfront.

Secure and Maintenance-free

Your content is stored on our secure servers and we take care of all the maintenance.

Region Availability

The available application locations for this add-on are shown below, and depend on whether the application is deployed to a Common Runtime region or Private Space. Learn More

  • Common Runtime
  • Private Spaces
Region Available
United States Available
Europe Available
Region Available Installable in Space
Dublin Available
Frankfurt Available
London Available
Montreal Available
Mumbai Available
Oregon Available
Singapore Available
Sydney Available
Tokyo Available
Virginia Available

Plans & Pricing

    • Monthly API calls 50,000
    • Monthly Bandwidth (GB) 100
    • Blog posts 50
    • Pages 10
    • Assets 2,000
    • Roles 2
    • Write API
    • Image editing
    • Monthly API calls 100,000
    • Monthly Bandwidth (GB) 250
    • Blog posts 500
    • Pages 50
    • Assets 3,000
    • Roles 2
    • Write API
    • Image editing
    • Monthly API calls 500,000
    • Monthly Bandwidth (GB) 500
    • Blog posts Unlimited
    • Pages 100
    • Assets 5,000
    • Roles 3
    • Write API
    • Image editing
    • Monthly API calls 1,000,000
    • Monthly Bandwidth (GB) 1,000
    • Blog posts Unlimited
    • Pages 200
    • Assets 10,000
    • Roles 3
    • Write API
    • Image editing
Install Add-on
$ heroku addons:create butter

To provision, copy the snippet into your CLI or use the install button above.

Documentation