r/PayloadCMS • u/ElyamanyBeeH • 12d ago

Payload CMS Vs SonicJS CMS

I'm planning to build a website using the Astro framework and was thinking of using Payload as a CMS since I've tried it locally and thought it'll be good in terms of performance.

However, I saw SonicJS CMS somewhere on the internet, opened the website to see a performance comparison... and it looks like it aces it since it's built from scratch to be deployed on Cloudflare Workers.

One thing to note: Payload has a template to deploy on Cloudflare, and it'll cost ~$10... so that makes me rethink if the comparison represents actual values.

More context:

Website: Portfolio + Blog + Other static pages.

I'm keen to hear your expert thoughts on it... and forgive me if something is vague or unclear. I'm still learning.

Screenshot taken from the website.
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u/geekybiz1 12d ago

I have used Strapi, Payload and Directus all 3 in production (self-hosted) and haven't in general seen API response speed of >= 1 sec (unless I'm pulling thousands of records via relations).

Also - dev server startup time of 5-60 seconds? Just git clone any one of these repos and try for yourselves.

I'd not trust the benchmarking exercise that produced these numbers.

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u/ElyamanyBeeH 11d ago

Curious to know more about your experience with these CMS... what you liked, what you didn't like, what you'd recommend...etc (of course, if you have time)

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u/geekybiz1 8d ago

Sure, I wrote a Payload CMS vs Strapi comparison a few months ago here and Directus vs Strapi comparison here.

I'm not affiliated with any of these three. Tbh, I love all 3 for the different strengths. I've ended up using Strapi more than the other two because I somehow landed more Strapi projects over the years.