Why we build on Payload instead of a headless SaaS CMS
Self-hosted, Postgres-backed, and the content model lives in your repo. Here is the trade we made and when we would not make it.
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The content model being code, versioned alongside the app, is the single feature that sold us. A schema change and the frontend that depends on it arrive in the same pull request.
When a SaaS CMS is the better call
If nobody on the team wants to own a database, pay for the managed one. The costs we avoid are real, but so is the operational work we took on instead.
