About Payload
CMS · Freemium · Open source · 1 upvote · Launched week 24, 2026
Payload is a headless CMS and application framework written in TypeScript that runs inside a Next.js app rather than as a separate service, generating an admin UI and REST and GraphQL APIs from your config. Access control, hooks and custom fields are all code. Open source under MIT, with a paid managed cloud.
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