Overview
Payload is a CMS and admin defined in code, often inside a Next.js application. Content configuration is TypeScript rather than a separate hosted model.
What it does
- Code-first content models
- Admin panel
- Runs inside your app
Capability source: Project documentation
How you run it
Payload runs on infrastructure you manage.
Documented deployment options: Node, Docker.
Self-hosting and deployment
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Cloud / hosted offering
- Not recorded
- Docker noted in deployment tags
- Yes
- Deployment tags
- Node, Docker
- Difficulty
- Moderate