Keystatic
Keystatic lets teams edit Markdown, JSON, and YAML content stored in a codebase, either through an admin interface or directly in files.
What Keystatic is
Keystatic lets teams edit Markdown, JSON, and YAML content stored in a codebase, either through an admin interface or directly in files. It also supports Markdoc and MDX, with integration guides for Astro, Next.js, and Remix. Content can be saved locally, directly to GitHub, or in both places; the product is described as requiring no database. Keystatic Cloud connects to GitHub so team members can edit without having their own GitHub account. A Cloud team can include multiple projects, and every team user can access all projects in that team. Optional Cloud Images stores, optimizes, and delivers images for web use. Cloud Pro adds experimental real-time editing on the same document by multiple people. The Reader API retrieves content from a project directory. The free plan allows up to three users per team, with unlimited teams and projects. The project is described as experimental.
Good
- Supports Markdown, YAML, JSON, Markdoc, and MDX.
- Save locally, to GitHub, or both.
- No database required.
- Free plan allows unlimited teams and projects.
- Integration guides for Astro, Next.js, and Remix.
Watch out
- Project is described as experimental.
- Free plan is limited to three users per team.
- Multi-person real-time editing is experimental.
Who it suits
Keystatic suits teams that want to manage codebase content through an admin UI or files. Its integrations and GitHub-based cloud editing are relevant to Astro, Next.js, and Remix projects.
Verdict
Keystatic combines file-based content editing with optional GitHub-connected cloud services. Check the experimental project status and the team-user limits before choosing a plan.
Plans and prices
From Keystatic's own pricing page, checked 2 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Up to 3 users per team · unlimited teams and projects |
| Keystatic Cloud Free | Free | Unlimited teams and projects · Up to 3 users per team |
| Keystatic Cloud Pro | $10 a month | More than 3 users · Additional users cost $5/month each · Multiplayer editing · Cloud Images · Starts at $10/month |
The facts
Each one read from Keystatic's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- CLI scaffolding
- The CLI command npm create @keystatic@latest creates a Next.js, Astro or Remix project with Keystatic integrated.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Cloud authentication
- Keystatic Cloud handles GitHub authentication without requiring users to configure environment variables or a custom GitHub app.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Cloud Images
- Cloud Images stores, transforms and serves optimized images without placing image binaries in the GitHub repository.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Cloud multiplayer
- The Pro plan includes experimental real-time multiplayer editing on the same document.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Collaboration
- Keystatic Cloud Pro offers experimental real-time multi-player editing on the same document.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Collections and singletons
- Content structures are defined with collections for repeated entries and singletons for one-off records.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Community support
- Official support channels listed are GitHub Discussions, Discord and X/Twitter.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Content formats
- The product supports Markdown, YAML and JSON content formats.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Database model
- Keystatic describes itself as requiring no database.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The documentation includes framework guides, core concepts, configuration references and individual field API pages.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Editorial score on Lucky Media
- Lucky Media gives Keystatic an overall score of 2.7 out of 5.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Editorial score on Propicked
- Propicked gives Keystatic an editorial score of 7.9 out of 10.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Frameworks
- The docs provide integration guides for Astro, Next.js and Remix.checked 2 Oct 2026
- GitHub reader
- A createGitHubReader function reads a configured repository using a personal access token.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Image transformations
- Cloud image URLs accept fit, format, quality, height and width parameters, with dimensions up to 10,240 pixels.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: custom fields
- An open feature discussion says custom field types complicate the internal API and have slowed core development.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: editorial workflow
- Lucky Media reports that approval-before-publish, scheduling and localization features are missing or immature.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: Git workflow trade-offs
- Lucky Media says repository-based content inherits Git workflow constraints and is a poor fit for teams needing editorial independence.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: unresolved defects
- The issue tracker showed 167 open issues, including reports of stale-entry save failures, broken Japanese IME composition and date-field truncation.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Cloud team access
- Cloud projects are grouped into teams, and access is assigned at team level across that team's projects.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Maker
- Keystatic is a Thinkmill project and is developed as part of Thinkmill Labs Research & Development.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Maker founded
- Thinkmill lists 2013 as its founding year.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Maker headquarters
- Thinkmill lists its headquarters in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Maker legal name
- The privacy policy identifies the developer and maintainer as Thinkmill Labs Pty Ltd.checked 15 Oct 2026
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