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Craft CMS vs Bolt CMS: catalog facts
Craft CMS	Bolt CMS
Freemium Paid editions, support plans and SLAs are available alongside community support.	Free Free and open source under the MIT license.
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Content model is fully customisable rather than fixed Twig templates or headless use through GraphQL	REST and GraphQL APIs included Content types defined in readable YAML
Needs a developer to build the front end Not open source	Small maintainer team since 2024 Only the latest minor release is supported
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: MIT
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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