Moteur and Contentful

Contentful is built for big teams. Moteur fits a small site too.

Contentful is built for large teams: spaces, environments, roles and enterprise plans. Moteur is lighter, keeps content in Git, and prices each site on its own.

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Side by side

Eighteen points that matter for a client site. Contentful wins some of them. Each Contentful fact links to the page it comes from.

	Moteur	Contentful
Where the content lives	Plain JSON files in the project’s own Git repository	Contentful’s cloud1
In Git	Yes: each project is its own repository, a commit per save	No1
Who runs it	Moteur Cloud. Or host the open-source engine yourself, without the Studio	Hosted only1
Open source	Engine: MIT. The Studio and Moteur Cloud: not open source	Not open source (its SDKs, CLI and MCP server are MIT)2
Free plan	1 person, 1,000 entries, 2,000 API requests a month	10 people, 2 languages, 2 roles, 10,000 records1
First paid plan	Personal, $9 a month: 2 people, 10,000 entries	Lite, $300 a month: 20 people, 3 languages1
How it’s priced	A plan per project, with extra people, requests, credits or storage in packs	Per plan and per space, with usage limits3
Review before publishing	Drafts and reviews on every plan. A reviewer or admin approves	Drafts on every plan. Approval workflows on Premium4
Working together	On Moteur Cloud: see who’s in which field, leave notes on fields, and no save overwrites another’s	Shows who’s in an entry or field5
Languages	Any number of languages, field by field, on every plan	2 languages on Free, 3 on Lite, field by field6
Roles	Admin, developer, writer, reviewer, translator and billing, on every plan. No custom roles	2 roles on Free, 3 on Lite. Custom roles on Premium7
History	Every save is a Git commit, kept as long as the repository	A version at each publish, to compare and restore8
Images	Transforms by URL, eight crop ratios and a focal point you set	Transforms by URL. Focus by face or direction, not a point you set9
Forms	Built in, with a spam folder	Not built in1
API	REST, with an OpenAPI document per site. No GraphQL	REST and GraphQL10
Webhooks	Signed, and retried for two hours if your server is down	Yes11
AI agents (MCP)	Official and hosted: agents draft, and a person approves before anything goes live	Official, remote and local: reads, writes and publishes, with no approval step2
Writing help (AI)	Off until an admin turns it on. Credits on every plan, from 10 a month	AI Actions, a paid add-on on Premium3

Sources

Checked 26 October 2026. Contentful’s site turned our checker away, so these come from its own pages as search engines show them, and its GitHub. Check contentful.com/pricing before you decide.

The night shift

Who’s awake at 2 am?

Give an agent the keys and watch two roads. Same agent, same night, same mistake.

Claude connected through MCP, rewrites 40 product descriptions at 2 am. Three of them promise free shipping.

Contentful

Writes 40 entries
Publishes them
Live at 2:04 am, free shipping and all

Moteur

Writes 40 drafts
Asks for a review
Louise reads them over coffee
Live at 9:12 am, without the free shipping

Contentful’s MCP server can create, update and publish. An optional setting blocks writes to listed environments. Moteur’s agents always wait for a person.

Which one fits

Who’d you pick?

Seven situations from agency life. Guess, then see where we’d honestly send you. Sometimes it’s a draw.

Louise · Admin
A global brand with a procurement team, a platform team and a five-year plan.
ContentfulContentful’s spaces, environments and enterprise plans are built for exactly this.
Théo · Builder
Ten people need to log in, and the budget is zero.
ContentfulContentful’s free plan has ten people. Moteur’s has one.
Sophie · Writer
A small shop’s site that needs three people and won’t pay $300 a month.
MoteurMoteur’s paid plans are priced for one small site.
Céleste · Reviewer
Five languages, from day one.
MoteurAny number of languages, on every plan. Contentful’s Lite has three.
Claude · AI agent
An agent rewrites product pages overnight.
MoteurIts drafts wait for a person in the morning.
Marguerite · Writer
Product photos cropped and resized on the fly, in WebP or AVIF.
TieContentful’s Images API does it. So does Moteur’s, around a focal point you set.
Céleste · Reviewer
Two writers open the same article at 4:55 pm on a Friday.
TieBoth show who’s in which field, live.

Our honest count: Moteur 3, Contentful 2, ties 2.

Moving day

Moving from Contentful

No one-click importer yet. Here’s how it’s done today, with the tools that exist, and what’s coming.

Works today
Pack up Contentful
Contentful’s command line exports a space: content types, entries and assets, as JSON.
```
npx contentful-cli space export --space-id <space-id>
```
Works today
Shape the models
Write each model as JSON and create it from the command line. Or let an agent do it through MCP. It reads a sample of the export and proposes the models. You look them over in the Studio.
```
moteur models create --file models/article.json
moteur models create --file models/author.json
```
Works today
Bring the content
A short script turns the export into one import bundle: models, files and entries. The command line brings it all in, or nothing if one thing fails. Or connect one agent to both MCP servers: it reads from Contentful’s and writes drafts to Moteur’s. Those drafts wait for a person, like any agent’s work.
```
# the export reshaped into one bundle: models, files, entries
moteur imports run site.json --dry-run   # check it all, keep nothing
moteur imports run site.json
```
Works today
Review, then switch
Everything arrives as a draft. A reviewer reads, approves, and it goes live. Then point the site at the project’s channel: one REST API, with its own OpenAPI document.
Coming
An importer for Contentful
We’re writing an importer that reads a Contentful space export and does steps 2 and 3 in one go. This page will say when it ships. Until then, the steps above work.

Questions people ask

A reader asksWhy is the Contentful page different?

MoteurContentful’s website turned our checker away, so its numbers here come from its pricing and help pages as search engines show them, and from its GitHub. Check contentful.com/pricing before you decide, and tell us if anything’s off.

A reader asksDoes Contentful have GraphQL?

MoteurYes, beside its REST APIs. Moteur has a REST API per site, and no GraphQL.

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Contentful is built for big teams. Moteur fits a small site too.

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Pack up Contentful

Shape the models

Bring the content

Review, then switch

An importer for Contentful

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