Most headless CMSes are built to keep you. We're built to let you leave.
That's not a sales line — it's the design principle behind everything we've built.
The established players are genuinely good. Contentful has a polished UI. Sanity has a flexible schema. Strapi is open source and self-hostable. We're not going to pretend otherwise.
But they all make the same bet: that once you're in, the cost of leaving is high enough that you won't. Proprietary query languages, opaque pricing that scales against you, data that's awkward to export, APIs designed around their abstractions rather than yours.
That's a reasonable business strategy. It's just not one that puts developers first.
Your content is yours. Export everything as JSON at any time, no support ticket required. If you decide Mountain Labs isn't right for you in six months, you leave with your data intact.
Standard GraphQL, not our GraphQL. We didn't invent a query language. Your queries work with any GraphQL client you already use. Your team doesn't need to learn anything proprietary.
Webhooks over polling. Content events fire webhooks to wherever you want — your build pipeline, your cache invalidation, your own backend. You stay in control of what happens when content changes.
Pricing that doesn't punish growth. We charge a flat monthly fee. We don't take a cut of your traffic or charge per API call.
We're early. We don't have a visual page builder. We don't have a rich plugin ecosystem. We don't have enterprise SSO (it's coming).
If you need a complete, battle-tested platform with years of community tooling behind it — Contentful or Sanity are probably the right call today.
If you're starting something new and you want a CMS you won't resent in two years, we think Mountain Labs is worth a look.
Developers and technical leads evaluating a CMS for a new project. People who've been burned by lock-in before. Teams that want their content infrastructure to behave like the rest of their stack – predictable, standard, and under their control.
14-day free trial. No credit card required to start.