Overview
Strapi is an MIT-licensed headless CMS, and since version 5.47 it ships an MCP server built into the product — an agent authenticates with an admin token and gets tools generated from your own content types, so it can create, update and publish entries without anyone opening the admin panel. That is a real agentic publishing surface from the vendor rather than a community wrapper, which is rarer than the category's marketing suggests. It also exposes REST and GraphQL APIs. This is a developer's tool: you are running a Node app and modelling content types, not signing up and writing a post.
Key Features
- ✓Official MCP server built in (Strapi 5.47+) with admin-token auth
- ✓Separate official docs MCP server for coding assistants
- ✓REST and GraphQL APIs generated from your content types
- ✓MIT licensed community edition, self-hostable
- ✓Draft and publish workflow exposed to agents as tools
Strapi Alternatives
Other Web Hosting & Infrastructure tools to consider:
Bluehost
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Directus
Data platform with a built-in MCP server and AI assistant
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Ghost
Publishing platform an agent can post into via the Admin API
Traditional$18/mo Starter (Admin API needs $29/mo Publisher) / free self-hosted
GreenGeeks
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WP Engine
Premium managed WordPress hosting with headless CMS and MCP support
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