# Strapi

> Strapi makes an open-source, JavaScript and TypeScript headless CMS for modeling content and delivering it to websites, apps and other channels by API. It earns revenue from paid CMS features, enterprise support and separate cloud hosting.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States (remote-only operations)
- **Founders:** Pierre Burgy (Co-founder and CEO), Aurélien Georget (Co-founder and CPO), Jim Laurie (Co-founder; former CTO)
- **Products:** Strapi Community Edition, Strapi Growth, Strapi Enterprise, Strapi Cloud, Strapi 5
- **Notable:** Strapi says its 2024 community reached 5.5 million npm downloads and 65,000 GitHub stars., Tesco reports using Strapi for 24 channels and roughly 50% faster release cycles., Strapi announced SOC 2 Type 2 certification in its 2024 year review.

## Products & services

- **Strapi Community Edition** — Free, MIT-licensed, self-hosted headless CMS with content modeling, REST and GraphQL APIs, role-based access and extensibility.
- **Strapi Growth** — Paid CMS tier with features such as Live Preview, Releases and Content History.
- **Strapi Enterprise** — Commercial CMS edition with features including SSO, review workflows, audit logs and support.
- **Strapi Cloud** — Managed hosting for Strapi projects, billed separately from paid CMS features.
- **Strapi 5** — Major CMS version with a Document Service API, updated editor workflows and improved TypeScript support.
- **Strapi MCP server** — Opt-in interface exposing content operations to AI agents using scoped admin tokens.

## Achievements

- Strapi says its 2024 community reached 5.5 million npm downloads and 65,000 GitHub stars.
- Tesco reports using Strapi for 24 channels and roughly 50% faster release cycles.
- Strapi announced SOC 2 Type 2 certification in its 2024 year review.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Strapi said its redesigned Media Library became generally available in v5.54 and agent actions through MCP appear in audit logs.
- **2026-06** — Strapi’s MCP server reached general availability in v5.49, with scoped admin-token access.
- **2026-07** — Strapi announced removal of the free Strapi Cloud plan.
- **2025-10** — Strapi announced general availability of AI-assisted content-type generation.

## Links

- Website: https://strapi.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/strapi/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/strapijs
- GitHub: https://github.com/strapi
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Strapi
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/strapijs/

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Last updated: 2026-09-30