LocomotiveCMS
The facts below are what the maker publishes about LocomotiveCMS, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From LocomotiveCMS's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Personal | $19 a month | Max 1 site · 1GB Storage · Max 25.000 pageviews · Email support · $ 19 /month |
| Freelancer | $39 a month | Max 3 sites · 3GB Storage · Max 75.000 pageviews · Email support · $ 39 /month |
| Agency | $79 a month | Max 10 sites · 5GB Storage · Max 150.000 pageviews · Email and dedicated chat support · $ 79 /month |
| Enterprise | $199 a month | Max 100 sites · 10GB Storage · Max 500.000 pageviews · Priority Skype and email support · Dedicated account manager · $ 199 /month |
| White Label | Priced on request | White label solution · Get started |
The facts
Each one read from LocomotiveCMS's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Custom content
- Users can define content types and relate them to one another without SQL.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Custom content types
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Development tool
- Wagon scaffolds Locomotive sites and lets developers build content types and templates with a text editor and preview sites in a built-in web server.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Engine
- Engine is a Ruby on Rails application for creating and editing content and managing sites.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Hosting limits
- The pricing page assigns site, storage, and pageview maximums to its paid plans; it says free accounts use a locomotive.works subdomain path instead of a custom domain.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Hosting security
- All hosted plans include an SSL-protected back office and an automatic free SSL certificate for each site.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- The software is released under the MIT license and may be copied, modified, and resold subject to retaining copyright notices.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Localization and SEO
- The feature page describes built-in multi-language support and SEO tools including URL redirections, hreflang annotations, and page and content titles.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Multilingual content
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Multi-site
- A single LocomotiveCMS instance can manage as many websites as its server can handle.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Paid from
- 19checked 20 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- LocomotiveCMS is an open source CMS for developing and designing websites for clients.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Reusable sections
- Pages can be built from reusable sections that content editors can add, remove, and reorder.checked 11 Oct 2026
- SEO tools
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Spam and access features
- The feature page says Google reCaptcha v3 and an authentication system are available in the CMS core.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The homepage says the makers provide responsive support, and paid hosting plans list email, dedicated chat, or priority Skype and email support depending on tier.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Templates and integrations
- LocomotiveCMS uses Liquid templates and includes helper tags for Google Analytics, image resizing, pagination, and retrieving content from external web services.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Who it serves
- The homepage presents LocomotiveCMS as a CMS for developers building sites that clients can edit through an automatically generated back office.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platform type
- hybridchecked 20 Sep 2026
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