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The CMS engine for the age of AI.

Not another LLM wrapper bolted onto a CMS. Forme is a purpose-built AI content engine with schema-aware agents, review-first workflows, full audit trails. AI that actually understands your content.

Forme CMS admin interface showing content modeling and entry management

Why Forme is different

Not another LLM wrapper bolted onto a CMS. Purpose-built AI content operations with developer-first DX on managed cloud.

Alpha

Predictable, honest pricing

Great tooling shouldn't come with sticker shock. Forme's pricing grows transparently, not according to your API calls. No surprise overages. No sudden jump from starter to enterprise. Core features like environments, AI operations, and real-time preview are included at every tier, not locked behind premium add-ons.

Beta

Full AI audit trail

Every AI action is logged: what ran, when, by whom, with what inputs, and what outputs. Know exactly what AI did to your content. Meet compliance requirements. Debug unexpected results. No other CMS provides this level of AI accountability.

Beta

Review-first by default

Every AI action produces a draft. You see the diff. You apply, edit, or discard. No surprise changes to published content. Forme treats AI as a collaborator that suggests, not an agent that acts unilaterally. Trust is built in.

Beta

Schema-aware AI agents

Your AI does not just generate text. It understands your content types, field validations, locales, and relationships. A blog post draft respects your rich text structure. A product description follows your field constraints. AI that knows your schema produces content that actually fits your model.

Feature comparison

How Forme compares to the leading headless CMS platforms. Every claim verified against public documentation.

Feature
Forme
Contentful
Migration tooling
Yes (Alpha + M3)
Partial
Extension framework
Yes (Beta)
Yes
Webhooks
Planned (v1)
Yes
Versioning + history
Yes (Alpha)
Yes
Draft/publish workflow
Yes (Alpha)
Yes
Localization (field-level)
Yes (Alpha)
Yes
Real-time preview
Yes (Beta)
Yes
TypeScript SDK
Yes (Alpha)
Yes
Composable Admin UI
Yes (Beta)
No
Transparent pricing
Yes
No
Managed cloud + CDN
Yes (Alpha)
Yes
Standard APIs (no lock-in)
Yes (Alpha)
Yes
Environments (native)
Yes (Alpha)
Yes
Multi-provider AI
Yes (Beta)
No
AI content operations
Schema-aware (Beta)
Paid add-on
Schema-as-code (TypeScript)
Yes (Alpha)
No
YesPartialPaid add-onPlanned / No

All competitor data verified against public documentation (March 2026).

Why Forme?

Three combinations no single competitor offers.

Environments + schema-as-code + managed cloud

No managed CMS combines native environment CRUD, TypeScript schema-as-code, and managed delivery CDN.

Managed cloud + composable UI building blocks

Payload offers composable UI but requires self-hosting. Contentful offers managed cloud but UI is monolithic with iframe extensions. Forme is the first to offer both.

Schema-aware AI + review-first + audit trail

No competitor offers AI that understands content models at the schema level with human review workflows and full action logging.

How it works

From schema to published content in three steps.

Step 3

Deliver

Fetch published content via the Delivery API or TypeScript SDK. Build with Next.js, Nuxt, Astro, or whatever you choose. Global CDN delivery.

Step 2

Create

Author content via the Admin UI or Management API. Localize fields, manage drafts, upload assets. AI agents help draft and revise with review-first workflows.

Step 1

Model

Define content types via the API or Admin UI. Fields, validations, localized vs unlocalized. Your AI agents automatically understand your schema.

How Forme fits together

A composable platform. Use the full Admin UI, build your own, connect your existing tools, or combine them.

A
Forme Admin UI

Ships ready. Full editorial interface, content modeling, media library.

B
Your custom editor

Build with our composable React components and SDK hooks.

C
Connect your APIs

Integrate any tool or workflow via the Management API.

Mix and match: use A + B, B + C, or all three together.

Management API

Write operations, schema management, content lifecycle

Content Engine

Content types, entries, assets, localization, environments, versioning

AI Agents

Schema-aware drafting, prompt templates, audit trail (Beta)

Delivery API

Published content with CDN delivery

Preview API

Draft content for live preview (Beta)

Your site or app

Next.js, Nuxt, Astro, or any framework. Generate a custom site with AI or build from scratch.

Built for human devs and AI agents

TypeScript SDK, interactive API docs, and standard REST endpoints. Ship your frontend in minutes, not days.

TypeScript SDK

Typed client for both Management and Delivery APIs. Auto-detects token type.

app.ts
import { createClient } from "@formecms/sdk";

const delivery = createClient({
  baseUrl: "https://delivery.forme.sh",
  apiKey: process.env.FORME_READ_KEY,
});

// Typed entries with locale resolution
const entries = await delivery.entries.list({
  limit: 10,
  locale: "en-US",
});

if (entries.ok) {
  for (const entry of entries.data.items) {
    console.log(entry.fields.title);
  }
}

Developer guides

Quickstart, SDK reference, and full API documentation to get you shipping fast.

Try it live

terminal
curl -s https://delivery.forme.sh/delivery/entries?limit=3 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${READ_KEY}" | jq

What's coming

Forme launches in stages. The Alpha gives you the best developer-first CMS engine. Each release adds more capabilities.

Available now

Alpha (March 2026)
  • Content modeling
    TypeScript schema-as-code with field validations
  • Draft/publish workflow
    Version history and publish/unpublish controls
  • Localization
    Field-level localization with fallback chains
  • Environments
    CRUD + schema scoping via Management API
  • REST APIs
    Delivery + Management APIs with OpenAPI docs
  • TypeScript SDK
    Typed client for Management + Delivery APIs
  • Asset management
    Upload, metadata, publish/unpublish with CDN delivery
  • Admin UI
    Full editorial interface with content modeling
  • Managed cloud
    Hosted on GCP with global CDN delivery

Coming next

April 2026
  • AI Content Agents
    Draft, rewrite, and translate with schema-aware AI
  • Real-time Preview
    See draft changes live as you edit
  • Composable UI Components
    Build pages from reusable content blocks
  • AI Site Builder
    Go from content models to a working site in minutes
  • Multi-provider AI
    Choose OpenAI, Anthropic, or other providers
  • GraphQL Management API
    GraphQL alongside REST for the Management API

On the horizon

Late Spring / Early Summer 2026
  • Webhooks & Integrations
    Trigger external workflows on content events
  • Team Management & Roles
    Invite your team with granular permissions
  • Scheduled Publishing
    Publish and unpublish on a schedule
  • Activity Log
    Full audit trail of who changed what, when
  • Content Analytics
    Native editorial analytics dashboard
  • Advanced Search
    Full-text search with filtering and relevance

Pricing

Forme is free during Alpha. We're looking for teams who want to help shape the future of content management.

Available now

Alpha access

Free

Full platform access during Alpha. Content modeling, publishing, APIs, SDK, Admin UI, managed cloud. We want your feedback, not your money (yet).

  • All Alpha features included
  • Managed cloud hosting
  • Direct access to the team
  • Shape the product roadmap
Join the waitlist
Services

Custom content editor UI

Fixed fee

Need a content editor tailored to your team's workflow? We build custom editorial UIs on top of the Forme composable UI framework. Fixed price, no surprises.

  • Built on Forme's composable components
  • Tailored to your content models
  • Fixed price quote upfront
  • You own the code
Get in touch

Forme launches in stages

  • Alpha (now): Publishing engine with content modeling, draft/publish, localization, environments, Delivery API, TypeScript SDK, Admin UI, and managed cloud.
  • Beta (April 2026): AI content operations including the Creative Content Editor Agent, prompt templates, review-first workflow, audit trail, multi-provider AI, real-time preview, and composable Admin UI.

The Alpha gives you the best developer-first CMS engine available. The Beta adds the AI-native content operations that no competitor can match.

Built with AI, shipped with proof

Forme is developed by AI coding agents under human control. This AI-native development model creates a structural cost advantage, passed to customers through lower pricing. Our DORA metrics prove it works.

<1 hour
Mean Time to Recovery
Defect to fix merged
Elite
<15%
Change Failure Rate
Merges requiring follow-up fix
High
<3 hours
Lead Time
Average commit-to-merge time
Elite
35+/week
Deployment Frequency
Merges to main per week
Elite

OWASP Top 10 audited

Every API surface audited against the OWASP Top 10. Security review before every milestone release.

Data portability

Standard APIs today. Canonical export format at v1. Your data is always yours.

Open development

Architecture decisions documented in ADRs. Roadmap is public. Governance is transparent.

Standard APIs

REST with documented query semantics. No proprietary lock-in. Your data, your way out.

Ready for AI that actually understands your content?

Join the Alpha waitlist. Forme is building the deepest AI content operations in the headless CMS market: schema-aware, review-first, fully auditable.

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