Contentful
A headless content management platform that enables developers and content teams to create, manage, and deliver content via API.
About this data
Updated June 29, 2026
Overall Pulse Score
No change over this period
A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 68 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 8 weeks in the selected period. It measures online sentiment, not a rating of the product's quality.
Weekly Sentiment Trend
Pulse Score by week over the selected period. Each point is one complete week of mentions.
This week in public discussion
Sentiment around Contentful ticked up slightly in recent weeks, though the overall tone remained mixed. Commenters raised frequent concerns about bugs and missing features, with reliability issues drawing notable attention across multiple discussions. On the positive side, several mentions praised specific features and integration capabilities, and some users highlighted new release activity around content modeling and carousel functionality. The complaint volume still outweighed praise, with bug reports and feature gaps dominating much of the conversation.
Read the deeper analysisAI-generated summary of public online discussion during this period. It reflects the tone of that discussion, not facts about the product or our views.
Sentiment mix by week
How the tone of public discussion splits each week.
Most-discussed praise
Most-discussed complaints
Themes across the selected period, with mention counts.
How Contentful compares
Pulse Score over the selected period versus the top tracked competitors in Coding.
Where the mentions come from
Share of the 68 relevant public mentions in the selected period, by source.
Sample public mentions
Showing 5 of 68 analyzed public mentions in this period, with links to the original source. We do not reproduce full threads.
“Export packages in both CJS and ESM. Hi team, We've been facing issues using some of the Contentful Rich Text packages in ESM environments. Specifically, when extending packages that depend on these libraries, importing them often fails. I noticed that some packages already expor...”
“@contentful/field-editor-shared fails to load @tanstack/react-query in ESM browser builds. ## Issue The @contentful/field-editor-shared package uses dynamic require() to import @tanstack/react-query, which fails in modern browser environments using ESM bundlers (Vite, Rollup, esb...”
“Bug: contentful-cli crashes on startup with MODULE_NOT_FOUND for contentful-management/dist/contentful-management.node.js (Node v24.13.0). #### Summary This began failing in our Github Actions around the time of this release: https://github.com/contentful/contentful-management.js...”
“Bulk Edit App does not support single-reference fields. **Describe the bug** The Contentful marketplace listing for the Bulk Edit App lists bulk-editing single-reference fields as a supported feature of the Bulk Edit app. This is also mentioned on the changelog, and in New Conten...”
“seems contentful changed their team API.... here's what I'm getting when trying to use the contentful_team resource: ╷ │ Error: Failed to read team │ │ with module.contentful_teams.contentful_team.content_authors, │ on teams/content-hub-teams.tf line 1, in resource "contentful_te...”
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- Bugs and missing features dominated the complaint side of discussion and set a skeptical overall tone across the window.
- Sentiment declined sharply in late January through early February before partially recovering, with the most recent data point suggesting a possible positive shift.
- Integration quality was a dividing line in discussion, drawing both notable praise and notable frustration from different commenters.
- Active developer adoption was visible in mentions, but real-world friction with reliability and feature gaps tempered enthusiasm.
| Praise theme | Mentions |
|---|---|
| Good integrations | 9 |
| Strong features | 8 |
| Feature requests | 3 |
| New releases | 3 |
| Easy to use | 1 |
| Complaint theme | Mentions |
|---|---|
| Bugs | 25 |
| Missing features | 14 |
| Reliability | 14 |
| Feature requests | 9 |
| UI frustrations | 6 |
Discussion around Contentful over the tracked window carried a noticeably critical undercurrent, with complaint themes outnumbering praise themes both in variety and volume. Bugs and missing features each drew nine mentions, making them the dominant forces shaping public tone, while reliability concerns added another seven mentions to the pile. Commenters expressing frustration appeared to cluster around broken or misrepresented functionality, with one widely noted mention calling out the Bulk Edit App for advertising support for single-reference fields that the tool does not actually deliver. That kind of gap between documented capability and real-world behavior seemed to fuel a broader skepticism in the discussion.
On the positive side, several mentions acknowledged specific features and integrations in favorable terms, and a handful of posts reflected active new feature releases being tracked and built upon. Integration-related praise drew five mentions, suggesting that when connectivity worked as expected, commenters found genuine value. The new feature release theme, though smaller in count, hinted at developer communities actively building CMS-driven workflows, with sample mentions describing content modeling tasks like carousel sections, hero slides, and results tables being wired into live sites.
The score trajectory tells a volatile story. Sentiment opened the window at a middling level before dropping sharply over consecutive weeks in late January and early February, reaching its lowest recorded point in that stretch. A partial recovery followed, and scores stabilized into the low forties through late February. A notably low reading appeared in mid-June, though it carried very few mentions and may reflect limited discussion rather than broad negativity. The final data point showed the highest score in the entire window, suggesting a possible uptick in positive tone.
Opinion appeared divided most visibly around integrations, which earned both praise and complaint labels, pointing to inconsistent experiences depending on use case or configuration. Feature requests also appeared on both sides, reflecting a community that sees enough potential to keep asking for more while feeling the current gaps acutely.
AI-generated summary of public online discussion during this period. It reflects the tone of that discussion, not facts about the product or our views.
Member perspectives
Individual opinions from Pro members, posted over time. These are personal member views, not aggregated sentiment data.
Overall Pulse Score
No change over this period
A 0-100 index summarizing the tone of 68 relevant public mentions gathered from public online communities across 8 weeks in the selected period. It measures online sentiment, not a rating of the product's quality.
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