Alchemy CMS
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Alchemy CMS, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Alchemy CMS's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Open Source | Free | Free for any project · Self-host anywhere · Community support · BSD-3 licensed |
| Cloud | Priced on request | Fully managed hosting · Automated updates · Daily backups & monitoring · Managed hosting & CDN · Multiple environments · First level support · tba coming 2026 |
The facts
Each one read from Alchemy CMS's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Authentication
- Alchemy does not ship its own authentication; users can integrate an existing system or use the Devise-based alchemy-devise extension.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Authorization
- Alchemy provides member, author, editor, and admin roles and uses CanCanCan for authorization.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Caching
- Alchemy supports Rails Russian Doll caching for rendered page elements and sends cache headers for browsers, proxies, and CDNs.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Content model
- It composes pages from reusable semantic content components while separating content from markup and styling.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Core modules
- Its core modules cover pages, languages, sites, users, tags, and a picture and attachment library.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Custom content types
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Custom user roles
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- E-commerce integration
- The official alchemy-solidus extension integrates Solidus products, variants, and taxons into Alchemy pages and shares admin navigation and sessions.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Editorial workflows
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Headless API
- The official alchemy-json_api extension provides a JSON:API-compliant API for consuming Alchemy content from frontend frameworks.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Image processing
- Alchemy uses ImageMagick and Dragonfly to render images on the fly, with cropping controls in its picture library.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- Alchemy describes itself as a framework for ambitious projects and teams that need full control, with content authors working inside structures defined by editors or developers.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Media library
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Multilingual content
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Other integrations
- Listed extensions include PostgreSQL full-text search, Amazon S3 and Cloudinary storage or image delivery, and Sentry, Bugsnag, and AppSignal error reporting.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy and update checks
- The default update check can share the Alchemy, Rails, and Ruby versions and origin host with maintainers; the documentation also offers RubyGems-only and disabled options.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- AlchemyCMS is an open source content management framework built as a Ruby on Rails engine.checked 11 Oct 2026
- SEO tools
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Support
- The self-hosted edition lists community support, while the planned Cloud service lists first-level support.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platform type
- self_hostedchecked 23 Sep 2026
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