Prismic vs Statamic

Blueprints define schemas in YAML, any field type, nested Replicators, and Bard give complete modeling flexibility.

Custom Types are solid but lack union or polymorphic fields. Complex relational structures need workarounds.

Fieldsets allow reusable field groups across blueprints. Replicators handle block sets.

Slices are purpose-built for reuse, defined once in Slice Machine and shared across all page types.

Blueprints support required, min/max, regex, and custom validation. Custom validators need PHP rules, developer setup.

Validation limited to required marking. No regex, character limits, or custom validators without custom field plugins.

The Control Panel is one of the most carefully designed CMS interfaces. Bard and live preview are particularly polished.

The Page Builder is the most approachable editor, picking a slice, filling fields, and publishing takes minutes.

Live preview via Preview Target config. Not zero-config but straightforward for developers on Laravel projects.

Slice Simulator gives live previews during development. Editors can share a preview link before publishing.

Revisions, scheduling, and workflow states built in. Approval chains need the Collaboration addon on the Pro plan.

Draft, in-review, and published states built in. Batched Releases available. Approval chains need the Platinum plan.

Best-in-class for a Laravel CMS, Glide transforms, focal points, alt text, cropping and flexible storage (local, S3, Cloudflare R2, etc).

Media library handles uploads and basic organization. Imgix powers delivery but no focal point UI or transform control.

No real-time editing. Multi-user access supported but editors can overwrite without live conflict detection.

No real-time simultaneous editing. Prismic uses document locking, one editor holds a document at a time.

Roles and permissions per collection, nav, and assets. Granular for most teams, field-level access needs custom PHP.

Admin and writer roles cover basic access. Granular custom roles need Enterprise plan. No field-level access control.

Multi-site and multi-locale are first-class. Each site has its own locale, content tree, and field-level translations.

Field-level locale variants and a clean translation UI. Multiple locales per repository supported on all plans.

Locale fallback configurable in the sites config, Statamic falls back to default locale when translation is missing.

Fallback must be handled in the query layer or frontend, the API returns null for missing translations.

REST API and GraphQL are well documented. No frontend SDKs are available.

REST and GraphQL APIs are well documented. @prismicio/client generates TypeScript types from your Slice Machine config.

Primarily PHP/Laravel. No official Next.js or Astro starters.

Slice Machine is the best first-run setup, Next.js and Nuxt adapters configure routing, previews, and types.

Full REST API for content management and direct PHP/Eloquent server-side access. The Stache is programmable via Laravel.

Write and Migration APIs support programmatic content and bulk ops but are less mature than alternatives.

Git-based content means environments are code, branch, test, merge. No CMS env UI but flat files make diffs natural.

Environments are Platinum/Enterprise only, scoped to schema testing. Prismic recommends production Releases for review.

Self-hosted by default. Flat-file storage eliminates DB queries for most reads, speed depends on hosting.

Content via Fastly's global edge. One of the better-performing CMS APIs on cold-start latency benchmarks.

Requires PHP/Laravel hosting. More setup than SaaS CMS but simpler than Node.js + DB for teams already on Laravel.

Fully managed SaaS with zero infrastructure to configure or maintain.

Marketplace has addons for e-commerce, and SEO. Quality is high, stricter review process than npm packages.

Slice Machine-centric ecosystem with strong Next.js and Nuxt integrations. Fewer marketplace plugins than others.

Tight-knit Discord community with an accessible core team. Fewer developers than some alternatives but high expertise density.

A small but helpful community. Forum support is responsive but fewer tutorials and plugins than larger CMS platforms.