# Storyblok — Content Marketing

Storyblok by Storyblok GmbH holds a panel rating of 2.5/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-10-15. Provenance: EU-Made; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: Storyblok GmbH (https://www.storyblok.com)
- Category: [Content Marketing](https://whats-best.ai/software/content-marketing.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): EU-Made
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/content-marketing/storyblok
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/content-marketing/storyblok/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/content-marketing/storyblok/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-20 · evaluated 2026-10-15 · oldest source captured 2026-10-01

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: Storyblok GmbH
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Yes, per the vendor’s own page [S2]
- Starting price: “Monthly price if billed monthly: Free Includes 1 team member seat, add 1 more user at 15,00 €/month” (vendor’s words) [S2]

## The panel's verdict

Storyblok is a subscription-based headless CMS with a visual editor, listed as Storyblok GmbH of Linz, Austria. The strongest clusters are distribution and integrations and pricing transparency, both 7-8: a publicly documented GraphQL API with a stated rate limit of 100 points per second, webhooks, an app directory, a status page, per-plan uptime SLAs, and published per-unit rates such as 15,00 €/month each additional user and 20,00 €/month per additional locale — though no headline base plan price was found. Content model and reuse and collaboration and approval sit at 6-7. The weak spots are editorial planning, 2-4, where no public information was found on an editorial calendar, briefs or campaign grouping beyond a gated webinar, and sovereignty, 1-3. That range is a genuine split: the data protection reviewer scored 1, finding no stated hosting region for customer content, while the other scores sit at 3, weighing the Austrian listing and a European Union delivery region among five. AI and content rights spans 4-6 on unanswered questions about training, processing location and retention.

**Speaks for it:**
- Publicly documented, versioned GraphQL delivery API with a published rate limit of 100 points per second, status code 429 handling, a playground, documented webhooks, an app directory, a public status page and per-plan uptime SLAs from 97 to 99.99 percent.
- Publishing is gated to the Ready to Publish stage, with per-stage edit and publish permissions, per-language publication status and an Approval app recording email sign-off after a changelog review.
- Structured content model with nestable blocks, reference fields between entries, datasources for shared terminology and component schemas inherited from a parent space across sites.
- Self-service plans Starter, Growth and Growth Plus publish per-unit overage rates: 15,00 €/month each additional user, 20,00 €/month per additional locale, 10,00 €/month per 1M API requests, 75,00 €/month for each 250GB extra and 20,00 €/month per 200k AI credits.
- AI providers and exact models are named across OpenAI, Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude, with AI features switchable per space or organization, customer-supplied credentials possible and usage history filterable by provider, feature, user and space.

**Held against it:**
- No public information found on an editorial calendar, on briefs carrying goal, audience and keywords, or on grouping work into campaigns or topics — the campaign evidence is a webinar session, not product documentation.
- No public information found on where customer content, assets and backups are hosted, on a subprocessor list with locations and purposes, or on a DPA, with AWS named as datacenter and no region stated.
- No public information found on whether customer content trains the named AI models, where prompts are processed, or how long prompts and outputs are retained.
- No public information found on a documented, self-service export of content, model, locales and assets together, or on named connectors to translation services.
- No public information found on mandatory named reviewers, on scheduled publishing that waits for approval, or on freelancer access limited to assigned pieces.

**Best for:**
- You build marketing sites on a headless stack and want documented delivery — a GraphQL API, webhooks and framework support including Next.js, Astro, Nuxt, React, Vue, Symfony and Angular.
- You run multilingual content and need each translated story to carry its own publication status, with unlimited locales available at 20,00 €/month per additional locale.
- You need to forecast costs before committing — seat, traffic, API-request, locale and AI-credit overage rates are published per unit.
- You want nothing published without review — only stories at the Ready to Publish stage can go live, with sign-off recorded by email against the changelog.

**Avoid if:**
- You must keep AI-assisted content processing inside the EU — the named AI providers are OpenAI, Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude, and the delivery regions include the United States, Canada, Australia and China alongside the European Union.
- Your planning runs on editorial calendars and campaign briefs — the captured campaign material is a webinar series and workflow stages offer assignment and due dates rather than a calendar.
- You need a published price for custom roles and workflows, SSO and SCIM — the Enterprise Premium and Elite tiers are sold as fully customized consumption.
- You expect to outgrow a Starter plan — it includes 100GB traffic per month with no additional traffic available.

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price.

| Criterion | The Head of Content | The SME Marketer | The Localisation Lead | The Web Engineer | The Data Protection Officer | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Planning, editorial calendar & briefs | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 |
| Creation, review & approval | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Structured content, localisation & export | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Publishing, distribution & integrations | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 4/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 |
| AI assistance & content rights | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| European sovereignty | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 3.5/5 | 4/5 | 3.5/5 | 4/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **2/5** | **2.5/5** |

### The judges

- **The Head of Content** (v1.0): Runs an editorial team of six plus freelancers and answers for what goes live. Wants briefs that carry the goal to the writer, a calendar that shows what is late, and an approval trail that says which version legal released — not a status anyone can flip to "approved".
- **The SME Marketer** (v1.0): Is the marketing department of a 120-person Mittelstand company and writes half the content with an AI assistant. Wants to know who owns what the model wrote, whether her drafts train it, and what the plan costs once she adds a second language and the agency as guests.
- **The Localisation Lead** (v1.0): Ships every piece in German, English and French for the DACH region and beyond. Wants locales on the field, not copies of the entry, translation status per language, and a documented export of content, model and locales — because a repository that cannot leave is a hostage, not an asset.
- **The Web Engineer** (v1.0): Builds the website and the integrations the content flows through. Wants a versioned API with published rate limits, webhooks on publish, preview environments, and a migration CLI that works in both directions — and reads "headless" as a promise about the API, not a logo.
- **The Data Protection Officer** (v1.0): Signs off every tool that stores the company's drafts, author profiles and campaign data. Wants the contracting entity and hosting region named, the subprocessor list with the AI providers on it, prompt retention in days, and training on customer content excluded in the terms rather than in a blog post.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has read "AI-powered content at scale", "one source of truth for every channel" and "no lock-in, it's headless" on every page in this category. Reads instead for the export that includes locales and history, the clause on training with customer content, and what the invoice does when the third locale and the API overage arrive.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Ownership | Not determined | — | — |
| Data residency | Not determined | — | — |
| Subprocessors | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Applicable laws: GDPR · Austrian DSG · Austrian TKG · CCPA/CPRA · VCDPA · Colorado Privacy Act · Utah Consumer Privacy Act · Connecticut Data Privacy Act [S3]
- DPA: yes [S2]
- DPA: yes [S3]
- DPA: in-app profile · yes [S2]
- ISO 27001: yes [S3]
- Staff training: yes · yes [S3]
- Trust center: https://www.storyblok.com/trust-center [S3]

**Hosting**
- Datacenter: AWS [S3]
- Graphql regions: European Union · United States · Canada · Australia · China · https://gapi.storyblok.com/v2/api [S11]
- Website providers: Vercel · AWS · Netlify [S3]

**Integrations**
- AI providers models: gpt-4o · gpt-5 · gpt-5.1 · gpt-5-mini · gpt-5-nano · gemini-2.5-flash · gemini-2.5-pro · gemini-3.5-flash · claude-opus-4-6 · claude-sonnet-4-6 · claude-haiku-4-5 [S13]
- API docs: yes [S1]
- App directory: yes [S1]
- App store: storyblok.com/app-store [S2]
- Existing stack: yes [S1]
- Third party cookies: Greenhouse · YouTube · Algolia · Glassdoor · Rudderstack · Tito [S3]
- Webhook endpoint operations: retrieve · create · update · delete [S12]
- Webhook endpoint path: /v1/spaces/:space_id/webhook_endpoints/ [S12]
- Webhooks absent: yes [S1]
- Webhooks purpose: Webhooks send Storyblok events to other applications; default events can be listened to [S12]

**Legal**
- Archive period 1: AI Terms effective from November 11th, 2025 to April 21st, 2026 [S14]
- Archive period 2: AI Terms effective from April 22nd, 2024 to November 10th, 2025 [S14]
- Contracting entity: Services provided by a Storyblok Group company named in the contract [S4]
- Contracting entity: Entity named on the Order Form or mentioned in the online sign-up process [S5]
- Copyright: 2017-2026 · Storyblok GmbH [S6]
- Court: Landesgericht Linz [S4]
- Effective date: 2025-10-06 [S3]
- Entity: Storyblok GmbH [S1]
- Entity: Storyblok GmbH [S2]
- Entity: Storyblok GmbH [S3]
- Entity: Storyblok GmbH [S5]
- Entity: Storyblok GmbH [S2]
- Entity: Storyblok GmbH · 2017-2026 [S14]
- Memberships: Austrian Chamber of Commerce; Information and Consulting Division - Management Consulting, Accounting Division; ubit.or.at [S4]
- Object: Services in automatic data processing and information technology [S4]
- Operator: Storyblok GmbH · Peter-Behrens-Platz 2, 4020 Linz, Austria [S4]
- Register number: FN 479743 f [S4]
- SSO login supported: email · SSO [S5]
- Terms last updated: 2025-04-07 [S5]
- Terms last updated: General Terms and Conditions, last updated 02 October 2026 [S5]
- Terms versions: enterprise_global_except_americas · enterprise_americas · self_service [S5]
- VAT number: ATU72706128 [S4]

**Pricing**
- Additional traffic: Growth · yes [S2]
- AI credits: yes · depends on pricing plan [S13]
- AI credits plan dependent: AI credits per space · yes [S13]
- AI credits vs tokens: credit cost per action determined by token cost and model used [S13]
- AI credits vs tokens: credits are a multiple of token cost per query, model-dependent [S13]
- Annual discount: one month free · annual [S2]
- Annual discount: one month free when paying annually [S2]
- Auto renewal: yes · sales@storyblok.com · 30 [S5]
- Credit card required: 45 · yes [S2]
- Default term: 12 [S5]
- Flowmotion tiers: FlowMotion Core · FlowMotion Advanced · FlowMotion Pro · contact sales [S2]
- Free trial: 45 · Growth Plus [S2]
- Growth included: 5 · 1 · 2 · 10 · 100000 · 400 · 1000000 · 97 [S2]
- Growth plus included: 15 · 1 · 10 · 200000 · 1 · 4000000 · 97 [S2]
- Growth plus price: EUR · 349 [S2]
- Growth plus price: EUR · 349 · 15 [S2]
- Growth price: EUR · 99 [S2]
- Growth price: EUR · 99 · 5 · 15 [S2]
- No credit card: 45-day Growth Plus per space · no [S2]
- No setup fee: no [S2]
- Nonprofit discount: educational institutions · non-profit organizations · yes [S2]
- Nonprofit discount: yes [S2]
- Overage billing: outgoing traffic · API requests · per Order Form rates [S5]
- Payment terms: bank transfer only · as stated in Order Form · 30 · annually in advance [S5]
- Premium elite features: 99.9% Uptime SLA · AI SEO · Native A/B Testing · Shared Assets Libraries · Taxonomies · Environments · Multi-Space Content Distribution (Elite) · Custom Roles & Workflows · Language-specifilc Workflows · GraphQL · Release Management · SSO… [S2]
- Premium elite price: Premium · Elite · yes [S2]
- Premium elite price: Premium · Elite · Custom · EUR [S2]
- Setup fee: no [S2]
- SLA credit: pro-rated refund credit for next billing cycle per minute of non-availability [S5]
- Starter included: 1 · 1 · 2 · 2 · 25000 · 100 · 100000 [S2]
- Starter price: Starter · 0 [S2]
- Starter price: 0 · EUR · 1 · 15 [S2]
- Subscription change: yes [S2]
- Taxes excluded: no · customer [S5]
- Trial: 45 · Growth Plus [S2]
- Uptime SLA: annual average · scheduled Maintenance & Downtime · Storyblok Content Delivery API · 99.99 · 99.9 [S5]
- Uptime SLA by plan: 99.99% · 97% · 99.9% · not available · 97% [S2]
- VAT: yes [S2]
- VAT: VAT number addable in payment settings; tax percentage shown before subscribing [S2]

**Product**
- Account signup fields: first name · last name · email · password [S3]
- Age restriction: 16 [S3]
- AI alt text: asset manager images · yes [S13]
- AI alt text: generates accessibility text for images; can generate alt text in languages other than English if language configured and Alt text field translatable [S13]
- AI alt text multilingual: yes [S13]
- AI assistance overview: AI features include translations, alt text, and SEO; enableable at space or organization level [S13]
- AI branding: yes [S13]
- AI branding context: industry · product · audience · voice [S13]
- AI campaign optimization: yes [S6]
- AI consumption metrics: monthly summary and per-space usage · remaining credits and weekly/monthly usage breakdown [S13]
- AI customization: space · organization · own credentials · preferred model · fine-grained configurations · yes [S13]
- AI customization: space · organization · yes [S13]
- AI features: yes · AI Terms at storyblok.com/legal/ai-terms-and-conditions [S5]
- AI features overview: translations · alt text · SEO · space · organization [S13]
- AI generation settings: temperature · top-p · stop sequences · yes [S13]
- AI generation settings: temperature · top-p · stop sequences · yes [S13]
- AI ideation: Ideation Room · yes [S13]
- AI ideation: yes [S13]
- AI org defaults: yes [S13]
- AI output rules: yes [S13]
- AI output rules: natural-language rules controlling AI output [S13]
- AI providers models: gpt-4o · gpt-5 · gpt-5.1 · gpt-5-mini · gpt-5-nano · gemini-2.5-flash · gemini-2.5-pro · gemini-3.5-flash · claude-opus-4-6 · claude-sonnet-4-6 · claude-haiku-4-5 [S13]
- AI SEO: SEO tag generation · yes [S13]
- AI SEO: AI SEO app generates SEO tags [S13]
- AI style groups: yes · collection of output rules applied at organization or space level [S13]
- AI style groups: yes [S13]
- AI translations: machine-based translation · yes · dozens [S13]
- AI translations: machine-based translations in dozens of languages [S13]
- AI usage history: time period · provider · feature · user · space [S13]
- AI usage history: time period · provider · feature · user · space [S13]
- AI usage metrics: monthly credits summary, usage across spaces · remaining credits, weekly/monthly breakdown [S13]
- API first: yes [S1]
- Applicant privacy policy: https://www.storyblok.com/legal/applicants-privacy-policy [S3]
- Approval action menu: Approval app adds an Approve entry to content editor actions menu for sign-off by email [S7]
- Approval changelog review: yes [S7]
- Approval email requests: yes [S7]
- Apps: apps add functionality like responsive previews, advanced collaborators, approval workflows, integrated search [S2]
- Apps concept: apps add functionality such as responsive previews, collaborators, workflows, search [S2]
- Asset type restrictions: yes [S2]
- Asset upload limits: 500 · 1 [S2]
- Asset upload limits: 500MB · 1GB [S2]
- Block library organization: Block Library lists all blocks, organized with folders and tags [S9]
- Breaking change notice: 30 [S5]
- Breaking change termination: yes · 20 [S5]
- Campaign house framework: Campaign House [S6]
- Campaigns session: Episode 4: Campaigns with Thomas [S6]
- Content export: Content portability without rebuild [S1]
- Content model data types: fields · blocks · stories [S9]
- Content types subset of components: Content types are a subset of components; one component can model a story part or a whole story [S9]
- Cookie consent: yes · yes [S3]
- Cross functional collaboration: yes [S6]
- Custom workflows plan gated: yes · yes [S8]
- Customer content ownership: customer [S5]
- Datasources: Datasources manage common terms, options and variables consistently [S9]
- Default workflow stages: Drafting · Reviewing · Ready to Publish · yes [S8]
- Elite SLA: 99.99 [S2]
- Enterprise governance: roles · workflows · approvals · audit_trails [S1]
- Feedback channels: yes · yes [S3]
- Field validation: Fields support validation to ensure compliance [S9]
- Flowmotion: FlowMotion AI workflow orchestration [S1]
- Flowmotion limits: 10 · 30 · 50+ customizable · 40000 · 120000 · 180000+ customizable · 365 [S2]
- Flowmotion limits: 10 · 30 · 50+ (customizable) · 40,000 · 120,000 · 180,000+ (customizable) · 365 [S2]
- Framework support: Next.js · Astro · Nuxt · React · Vue · Symfony · Angular [S1]
- Graphql auth token: access token required [S11]
- Graphql cached requests free: 0 [S11]
- Graphql field generation: [PascalName]Items · [PascalName]Item [S11]
- Graphql maxcost: RateLimit.maxcost [S11]
- Graphql pagination: 100 · yes · 25 [S11]

**Support**
- Customer success manager: Dedicated customer success team paired with customers [S1]
- Default tier uptime not stated: Enterprise Premium Plan · Enterprise Elite Plan [S5]
- Session language: English [S6]
- Status page: yes [S1]
- Status page: uptime.storyblok.com [S2]
- Uptime status: uptime.storyblok.com [S2]

58 more facts on the canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/content-marketing/storyblok

## Questions

### Is Storyblok European?

Yes. whats-best.ai classifies Storyblok as EU-Made.

### Where does Storyblok store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### Does Storyblok have a free plan?

Yes. Storyblok has a free plan, per [the vendor’s page captured 1 Oct 2026](https://whats-best.ai/evidence/6201).

### What are the best alternatives to Storyblok?

As of 15 Oct 2026, the panel rates [CoreMedia (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/content-marketing/coremedia), [Contently (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/content-marketing/contently) and [Kontent.ai (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/content-marketing/kontent-ai) highest among the other 14 Content Marketing products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [CoreMedia](https://whats-best.ai/software/content-marketing/coremedia) (EU origin, foreign-owned). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Storyblok alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/content-marketing/storyblok/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 16 subprocessors facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 11 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 5 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 4 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 compliance fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 sovereignty dimension could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and is shown as unknown.
- 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor homepage: https://www.storyblok.com/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S2] Pricing page: https://www.storyblok.com/pricing (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S3] Privacy policy: https://www.storyblok.com/legal/privacy-policy (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S4] Legal notice: https://www.storyblok.com/legal/legal-notice (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S5] Terms of service: https://www.storyblok.com/legal/terms (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S6] Planning, editorial calendar & briefs — found from sitemap: https://www.storyblok.com/back-to-skill-marketers-glow-up/ep4-campaigns (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S7] Creation, review & approval — found from sitemap: https://www.storyblok.com/docs/apps/approval (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S8] Creation, review & approval — found from sitemap: https://www.storyblok.com/docs/manuals/workflows (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S9] Structured content, localisation & export — found from sitemap: https://www.storyblok.com/docs/concepts/content-modeling (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S10] Structured content, localisation & export — found from sitemap: https://www.storyblok.com/docs/apps/shared-components (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S11] Publishing, distribution & integrations — found from sitemap: https://www.storyblok.com/docs/api/graphql (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S12] Publishing, distribution & integrations — found from sitemap: https://www.storyblok.com/docs/api/management/webhooks (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S13] AI assistance & content rights — found from sitemap: https://www.storyblok.com/docs/manuals/ai-assistance (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S14] AI assistance & content rights — found from sitemap: https://www.storyblok.com/legal/ai-terms-and-conditions-archive (checked 2026-10-13)

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