For CTOs & Business Leaders

A CMS Decision You Won't Have to Defend in Three Years

b10cks is the only headless CMS that gives you enterprise-grade capabilities, a transparent total cost of ownership, zero vendor lock-in, and a 100% open-source codebase you can inspect, fork, and self-host—from day one, without a sales call.

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The Risk Nobody Talks About in CMS Evaluations

Your CMS vendor's business model is your problem too.

Most enterprise CMS decisions are evaluated on features, integrations, and support SLAs. Fewer are evaluated on what happens if the vendor pivots, raises prices, gets acquired, or discontinues the product.

With proprietary SaaS CMSs, those aren't hypothetical risks. They're historical ones:

  • Contentful raised prices significantly post-Series E
  • Multiple "leading" CMSs have been acquired and absorbed into platforms with different priorities
  • "Enterprise" feature tiers are routinely restructured, moving previously available features behind new paywalls

b10cks eliminates this category of risk. Completely.

Open Source as Business Protection

Code you can read is infrastructure you can trust.

b10cks is licensed under the GNU AGPLv3. That means:

  • The source code is always available: no black box, no proprietary lock
  • You can audit the security: no trusting vendor assurances about what's happening with your content
  • You can fork and self-host: if b10cks ever ceased to exist as a managed service, your business continues without interruption
  • You can contribute: customizations, integrations, and bug fixes you make can be maintained and applied to future versions

For CTOs making multi-year infrastructure decisions, open source isn't just ideology—it's risk management.

Total Cost of Ownership

The full picture, not just the quoted price.

Per-seat editor fees 10 editors at $50/seat/month = $6,000/year before you've stored a single byte of content.

Feature tier upgrades localization, visual editing, advanced workflows, and API rate limits often require $500–$5,000/month plan upgrades.

API overage charges content-heavy sites regularly exceed API quotas included in standard plans, generating unpredictable monthly bills.

Vendor lock-in exit costs when the day comes to migrate, proprietary data formats and lack of full export mean expensive engineering time.

b10cks pricing: storage and traffic. That's it. Every feature included. No per-seat fees for editors. No tier upgrades. No vendor exit penalty.

Security & Compliance

Know exactly what's happening with your content.

Self-hosting option
Deploy b10cks inside your own infrastructure—AWS, GCP, Azure, or private cloud. Content never leaves your environment. No third-party vendor has access to your data. This is the cleanest answer to data residency, GDPR, HIPAA, and industry-specific compliance requirements.

Open-source auditability
Every API endpoint, every authentication mechanism, every data access path is readable in the source code. Security teams can audit without relying on vendor-provided documentation.

Role-based access control
Granular permissions at the space, content type, locale, and action level. The principle of least privilege is implementable out of the box.

Backup & migration tools
Database-to-database space migration, full content export at any time, and configurable backup schedules—because your content continuity strategy shouldn't depend on a vendor's goodwill.

Scalability Without Surprise Bills

Built for traffic spikes. Priced for predictability.

b10cks is built on proven infrastructure — Laravel, MySQL, S3-compatible storage, ValKey caching, and edge CDN delivery. The architecture scales horizontally without any architectural rewrites.

You control the scaling levers:

  • Self-hosted: add compute when you need it, at your cloud provider's rates
  • Managed cloud: auto-scaling with transparent traffic-based pricing

When your campaign drives 100x normal traffic, your content delivery handles it—and your bill reflects actual usage, not worst-case provisioning.

Vendor Relationship

Talk to people who answer.

The headless CMS market's enterprise tier typically means dedicated account managers who manage the relationship. b10cks is different:

  • Transparent, public pricing: no "custom quote" required for standard use cases
  • Open source contributions: if you need a feature, you can build it yourself
  • Direct access to the team: no ticket queues before you reach someone who can answer.
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Migration Path

Getting in is easy. Getting out is just as easy.

b10cks is designed for zero lock-in:

  • Import: migration tools from Contentful, Storyblok, Sanity, and Strapi
  • Export: full content export as structured JSON at any time, including all media assets
  • API compatibility: clean, documented REST API with no proprietary query language to learn
  • Standard formats: content structures follow patterns familiar to any developer

The goal is to earn your continued use—not to make leaving painful enough that you don't try.