Kiln

Kiln is ranked #12 of 165 in content management systems on The Geeks Club. It runs on API, Self-hosted, Web. There is a free plan. A free trial is offered. Paid plans start at $4.99/mo.

Kiln plans and pricing

All plans

Self-hosted Free Free forever Free forever · Open source under AGPL-3.0 · You run the worker and GitHub App · You provide the site host kilncms.com · 20 Sept 2026

Kiln Cloud $4.99/mo Monthly, recurring 7-day free trial kilncms.com · 20 Sept 2026

Fully managed $14.99/mo Monthly, recurring 7-day free trial kilncms.com · 20 Sept 2026

Self-hosted Free Free forever Every editor feature, no limits · You deploy the sign-in worker and your own GitHub App · Community support kilncms.com · 29 Sept 2026

Kiln Cloud $4.99/mo Monthly, recurring; per site 7-day free trial · Kiln hosts the worker and GitHub App · You keep your repo and host kilncms.com · 29 Sept 2026

Fully managed $14.99/mo Monthly, recurring; per site 7-day free trial · Setup and hosting included · Priority support · Receive-only email forwarding kilncms.com · 29 Sept 2026

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Free plan: Yes
Paid from: $4.99/mo

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Kiln

Free plan: Yes
Paid from: 4.99
What it does: Kiln is an open-source, click-to-edit CMS for static sites; invited editors change content on the page and each edit becomes a Git commit in a repository they own.
Editing: Editors can change text, images, documents, blocks, galleries, events, and calendar content from the site itself.
Publishing: Kiln supports drafts, scheduled publishing, named versions, history, and restoration, with publishes saved as Git commits.
Access controls: Site owners sign in with GitHub, while invited editors and members can use Google sign-in without GitHub accounts; editors can be scoped to pages or sections.
Review workflow: Kiln provides comment-only reviewer seats and a suggest mode where owners approve or decline proposed changes field by field.
Integrations: Kiln works with GitHub repositories and hosts that redeploy on push, including Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, Vercel, and GitHub Pages.
API and AI: A REST API and kiln-mcp let scripts and agents edit scoped, sanitized fields; optional AI assist uses an API key supplied by the user.
Security controls: The setup guide says the GitHub App can access only repositories selected during installation, and invited Google-email addresses are the only ones allowed to sign in as editors or members.
Data ownership: Site content remains plain HTML in the customer's GitHub repository on every plan, and the site can be kept after cancelling or leaving Kiln.
File limit: Uploaded documents are limited to 15 MB per file.
Supported site types: Kiln supports static HTML sites and documents a source mode for Astro-generated sites; the docs say Eleventy, Hugo, and Jekyll adapters are planned to follow.
Support: Self-hosted plans include community support on GitHub, while Fully managed includes priority support.
Price from: $4.99/mo

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Where it ranks on The Geeks Club

Best Content Management Systems in 2026#12 of 165
Best Git-Based CMS in 2026#1 of 23

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kilncms.com/;· checked 20 Sept 2026
kilncms.com· checked 29 Sept 2026
kilncms.com/docs· checked 29 Sept 2026
kilncms.com/pricing· checked 29 Sept 2026