Prismic Has a Free Headless CMS — Slice-Based Content Modeling for Modern Websites

Building a marketing site? Product pages? A blog? Prismic's "Slice Machine" lets you build pages from reusable content slices — like Lego blocks for your website content.

Prismic is a headless CMS with a unique approach: instead of traditional content types, you build pages from Slices — modular, reusable content sections that editors can mix and match.

Free Tier (Community Plan)

• Unlimited documents
• 1 user
• 1 custom type
• Unlimited API calls
• Built-in CDN
• Slice Machine (visual slice builder)

What Are Slices?

Think of a landing page as a stack of sections: hero → features → testimonials → pricing → CTA. Each section is a "Slice" with its own fields and layout.

// Define a Hero slice
const HeroSlice = {
  type: 'hero',
  fields: {
    title: { type: 'StructuredText' },
    subtitle: { type: 'StructuredText' },
    backgroundImage: { type: 'Image' },
    ctaText: { type: 'Text' },
    ctaLink: { type: 'Link' }
  }
};

// Editors drag and drop slices to build pages
// Developers define how each slice renders

Fetching Content

import * as prismic from '@prismicio/client';

const client = prismic.createClient('your-repo-name');

// Get a page by UID
const page = await client.getByUID('page', 'homepage');

// Access slices
page.data.slices.forEach(slice => {
  switch (slice.slice_type) {
    case 'hero':
      console.log(slice.primary.title[0].text);
      break;
    case 'features':
      slice.items.forEach(item => {
        console.log(item.feature_title[0].text);
      });
      break;
  }
});

// Query with predicates
const posts = await client.getAllByType('blog_post', {
  orderings: [{ field: 'document.first_publication_date', direction: 'desc' }],
  pageSize: 10
});

Next.js Integration

import { SliceZone } from '@prismicio/react';
import { components } from '../slices';

export default function Page({ page }) {
  return <SliceZone slices={page.data.slices} components={components} />;
}

export async function getStaticProps({ params }) {
  const client = prismic.createClient('your-repo');
  const page = await client.getByUID('page', params.uid);
  return { props: { page }, revalidate: 60 };
}

The Bottom Line

Prismic's Slice Machine makes it easy to build component-driven websites where marketers can create pages without developer help. The free tier is generous for small projects.

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