Contentful App Development Company

What does a Contentful build include?

Contentful runs the servers, so a Contentful build is mostly modeling and integration: deciding the shape of your content and wiring it to every channel that reads it. A Contentful CMS development company typically delivers:

• Content modeling - content types, fields, validations and references designed from your real pages and screens
• Spaces and environments - a space per product or brand, and sandbox environments where model changes are tested before production is switched to them
• The content APIs wired correctly - Content Delivery for published entries, Content Preview for drafts, Content Management for imports and automation, and GraphQL for front ends that want one query per view
• Apps on Contentful's App Framework, which Contentful now recommends over the older UI extensions, for custom fields, sidebars and editor tools
• Locales with fallback rules, and webhooks that tell your front end, search index or translation service what changed

Which front end works best with Contentful?

Contentful renders no pages, so the front end decides speed and SEO. For most websites we pair it with Next.js: pages are rendered on the server or cached as static HTML, each fetch is tagged with the entries it used, and a publish webhook calls a route that revalidates only those pages. Editors check drafts through Next.js draft mode reading the Preview API, and Contentful's live preview can show edits beside the page as they type.

Gatsby, Nuxt or plain React work too, and mobile apps read the same entries through Contentful's SDKs, so a banner changes on the site and in the app together. More important than the framework: keep preview tokens on the server, and request only the fields each view shows.

What does a Contentful project cost, and what does Contentful charge?

There are two bills. Miracuves charges for the build: a Contentful CMS Launch from $3,699 over 3-8 weeks, custom builds typically $8,000-$25,000 over 2-8 weeks (larger scopes are quoted in writing before work starts), and ongoing work from $2,299/month.

Contentful bills its subscription to you directly. When we checked contentful.com in September 2026 it listed a Free plan, a paid Lite plan for a single project and an Enterprise plan priced by its sales team. The Free plan allows two locales, 25 content types, 10,000 records and 100,000 API calls a month; Lite raises those limits and adds scheduled publishing and comments; custom roles, custom locale counts and multiple large spaces sit in Enterprise. Plans change, so we size yours against the current list before you sign anything.

How do you migrate to Contentful from WordPress or Drupal?

Mapping comes before any script. We list every post type, taxonomy, custom field and media file on the old site, decide which become Contentful content types, references or tags, and drop what nobody reads. From WordPress, posts and ACF fields come out through the REST API and body HTML is converted to Contentful Rich Text. From Drupal, nodes, paragraphs and taxonomy terms come out through JSON:API or the database - often the route for Drupal 7 sites leaving a platform that no longer gets security releases.

Import scripts call the Content Management API and run against a sandbox environment until entry and asset counts match the source. Content-type changes live in Git as migration scripts. At launch, production switches to the migrated content, and 301 redirects carry old URLs and their rankings across.

Contentful, Strapi or Drupal - which CMS fits?

Choose Contentful when you want a managed content platform: nothing to patch, published content served from a CDN, and editors across brands and locales in one web app. The trade-off is a subscription that grows with users, locales and records, and a CMS you rent rather than own.

Choose Strapi when your developers want an open-source headless CMS they host, extend in JavaScript and control end to end. Choose Drupal when many sites need fine-grained permissions and a PHP team will run them. For a marketing site edited through themes, WordPress costs less to build and run. We give the recommendation in writing before you pay anything.

What do you own when your CMS is Contentful?

Contentful is software as a service, so the CMS itself stays Contentful's: you license it through your subscription and cannot take its source code with you. What you should own is everything around it. We create the space inside your company's Contentful organization, or move it there, with your people as owners and Miracuves invited as users.

Your entries and assets are yours and can be exported as JSON at any time with the Contentful CLI. The front-end code, custom apps, webhook handlers, import scripts and content-model migrations Miracuves writes are 100% yours, assigned in writing at project start, so another team can take over, or the content can move to a different CMS later.

How do you choose a Contentful CMS agency?

Judge the content model before the portfolio. Ask each agency to show how it would model two or three of your real pages, and how it changes that model once thousands of entries exist. Strong answers include:

• Reusable components with validations, not one giant page type holding every field
• Model changes scripted and rehearsed in a sandbox environment, never clicked into production
• Preview working from the first sprint, so editors see drafts in the real layout
• A locale and fallback plan agreed before the first translation is ordered
• The space owned by your organization, and a handoff pack listing every API key, webhook and app