Piranha CMS
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Piranha CMS, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Piranha CMS's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Piranha CMS | Free | MIT-licensed CMS software; packages distributed via NuGet |
The facts
Each one read from Piranha CMS's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Admin interface
- The admin interface uses Vue.js and Bootstrap, supports Razor Pages and MVC, and can be extended or replaced with custom components.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Architecture
- Piranha uses ASP.NET dependency injection and allows its services to be replaced or custom implementations to be built.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Audience
- The project says it focuses on tools for small to medium sized customers and does not aim to provide complex enterprise features.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Content
- Piranha focuses on structuring and editing content, and its docs describe sites, pages, posts, media, blocks, regions, and fields.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Content editing
- Its block editor lets editors add, delete, and reorder content blocks in pages and posts.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Custom content types
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Custom user roles
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Data access
- Piranha uses Entity Framework Core for its provided data access packages and officially tests and supports SQLite, SQL Server, and SQL Azure.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Database options
- The project templates list SQLite, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL as database providers.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The project describes Piranha as cross-platform and says it supports a range of hosting and deployment scenarios; its repository lists Windows and Linux build platforms.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Editor
- Its block editor supports writing and arranging content, with side-by-side live preview and a built-in media library for image scaling and cropping.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Editorial workflows
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Editor integrations
- The documentation lists TinyMCE and Summernote manager packages, and says TinyMCE is the default editor in project templates.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Getting started
- Piranha provides cross-platform .NET CLI project templates for empty, MVC, and Razor Pages projects; the templates create new projects rather than adding CMS functionality directly to an existing application.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integration
- Piranha can be used as an integrated CMS or a headless API, and its documentation provides project templates for ASP.NET MVC, Razor Pages, and empty web applications.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Licensing
- Piranha CMS is released under the MIT license, which permits reuse in proprietary software subject to its license and copyright notice requirements.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Live preview and media
- The maker’s features page lists side-by-side live preview and a media library with image scaling and cropping.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Media library
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Media storage
- Project templates offer local file storage by default and Azure Blob Storage as an option for uploaded assets.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Notable limitation
- Piranha says it does not provide a collection of ready-made themes and plugins for building a site without programming.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Other database providers
- The docs describe MySQL and PostgreSQL packages as community initiatives, with support handled by their package maintainers.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Piranha CMS is an editor-focused .NET CMS that can be used as an integrated CMS or a headless API.checked 12 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platform and runtime
- Piranha is built on .NET 8, and its documentation describes .NET as cross-platform with SDK downloads for Windows, Linux, and macOS.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Platform type
- self_hostedchecked 23 Sep 2026
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