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Moteur and Storyblok

Storyblok is built around its visual editor. Moteur is built around review and history.

Storyblok lets writers click on the page they’re changing, and it’s very good at that. Moteur keeps every save as a commit, and a reviewer approves before anything goes live. Checked on Storyblok’s pages.

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Side by side

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

MoteurStoryblok
Where the content livesPlain JSON files in the project’s own Git repositoryStoryblok’s cloud1
In GitYes: each project is its own repository, a commit per saveNo2
Who runs itMoteur Cloud. Or host the open-source engine yourself, without the StudioHosted only1
Open sourceEngine: MIT. The Studio and Moteur Cloud: not open sourceNot open source (its SDKs and CLI are)3
Free plan1 person, 1,000 entries, 2,000 API requests a month1 person (up to 2), 2 languages, 1 day of history3
First paid planPersonal, $9 a month: 2 people, 10,000 entriesGrowth, $99 a month ($90.75 billed yearly), 5 people3
How it’s pricedA plan per project, with extra people, requests, credits or storage in packsPer plan, plus add-ons for people, languages and traffic3
Review before publishingDrafts and reviews on every plan. A reviewer or admin approvesA default review workflow on every plan. Your own on Premium4
Working togetherOn Moteur Cloud: see who’s in which field, leave notes on fields, and no save overwrites another’sComments on fields and a conflict warning. No live presence in its docs5
LanguagesAny number of languages, field by field, on every plan2 languages on Free and Growth, $20 a month for each more6
RolesAdmin, developer, writer, reviewer, translator and billing, on every plan. No custom rolesCustom roles on Premium and Elite3
HistoryEvery save is a Git commit, kept as long as the repository1 day on Free, 30 on Growth, unlimited on Elite3
ImagesTransforms by URL, eight crop ratios and a focal point you setTransforms by URL, with a focal point you set7
FormsBuilt in, with a spam folderNot built in3
APIREST, with an OpenAPI document per site. No GraphQLREST. GraphQL on Premium and Elite8
WebhooksSigned, and retried for two hours if your server is down3 on Free, 5 on Growth. Signed on paid plans only9
AI agents (MCP)Official and hosted: agents draft, and a person approves before anything goes liveOfficial and hosted: reads and writes, asks only before deleting10
Writing help (AI)Off until an admin turns it on. Credits on every plan, from 10 a monthCredits: 25,000 a month free, 100,000 on Growth11

Sources

  1. support.storyblok.com/hc/en-us/articles/25436594173713-Do-I-need-a-hosting-to-host-my-site-or-is-Storyblok-enough
  2. storyblok.com/docs/libraries/storyblok-cli
  3. storyblok.com/pricing
  4. storyblok.com/docs/manuals/workflows
  5. storyblok.com/docs/manuals/content-authoring
  6. storyblok.com/docs/concepts/internationalization
  7. storyblok.com/docs/api/image-service/operations/focal-point
  8. storyblok.com/docs/api/content-delivery/v2
  9. storyblok.com/docs/concepts/webhooks
  10. storyblok.com/docs/libraries/mcp-server
  11. storyblok.com/docs/manuals/agents

Checked 26 October 2026. From Storyblok’s own pages. If something there has changed, tell us and we’ll fix it here.

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.

Storyblok

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

Moteur

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

Storyblok’s MCP server reads and writes, and asks only before deleting. Its in-app agents (beta) ask before each write. 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.

  1. Marguerite · Writer

    The writers want to click on the page itself and change it there.

    StoryblokThat’s Storyblok’s Visual Editor, on every plan. Moteur previews on your site, but you edit in the Studio.

  2. Théo · Builder

    One writer, one site, and nothing to pay.

    StoryblokStoryblok’s free plan fits, and its editor is lovely.

  3. Louise · Admin

    A hotel site in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.

    MoteurAny number of languages on every plan. Storyblok’s Growth has two, then $20 each.

  4. Céleste · Reviewer

    Last month’s offer page needs to come back, exactly.

    MoteurEvery save is a commit. Storyblok’s Growth keeps 30 days.

  5. Sophie · Writer

    The client needs a contact form, and nobody wants another service.

    MoteurForms are built in, with a spam folder.

  6. Claude · AI agent

    Nothing goes live without a review, on the free plan.

    TieStoryblok has a review workflow on every plan. So does Moteur.

  7. Céleste · Reviewer

    Two writers open the same article at 4:55 pm on a Friday.

    MoteurStoryblok warns of a conflict. Moteur shows who’s in which field, as it happens.

Our honest count: Moteur 4, Storyblok 2, ties 1.

Moving day

Moving from Storyblok

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

  1. Works today

    Pack up Storyblok

    Storyblok’s command line pulls every story and asset into local files.

    npx storyblok stories pull --space 123456
npx storyblok assets pull --space 123456

  2. 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

  3. 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 Storyblok’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

  4. 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.

  5. Coming

    An importer for Storyblok

    We’re writing an importer that reads pulled Storyblok stories 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 asksDoes Moteur have a visual editor?

MoteurWriters build pages from blocks in the Studio and see them in a preview of your own site. There’s no clicking on the page to edit it, as in Storyblok.

A reader asksDoes Storyblok have GraphQL?

MoteurOn Premium and Elite. Moteur has a REST API per site, and no GraphQL.

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