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Siteshare vs CMS Brew
CMS Brew and Siteshare are close: both let a client change a site that lives in Git by chatting, both commit once per publish, and both cost $39 a month for five sites. The difference is how far a client may go, and what happens before a change goes live.
| Question | Siteshare | CMS Brew |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | An editor at the client's own site, /edit, on the site you built | An AI editor that maps your codebase and commits validated content values |
| How someone edits | Chat, select or draw on the real site; double-click to type | Chat, or click a text on the page and retype it |
| Setup in your code | None: a GitHub App on the repository, for any Node or plain HTML site | Connect the repository; CMS Brew maps the codebase, no schema file |
| What a client may change | Four levels per client, from text and images up to everything; anything above their level waits for your OK | Content values only; new pages, layout and code are refused and sent to you |
| Before it goes live | A draft on the real site, running in its own sandbox; built on a clean copy, then one commit on main | The change painted over the live page; one commit on the deploy branch, built by your host |
| History | The last 10 versions, Restore in one click | Version history and one-click revert |
| Price | Free for 1 site, then $9 a site a month, down to $4 as you grow (5 sites $36, 20 sites $126) | $39 a month for 5 sites, extra sites $10; $312 a year; 7-day trial |
The same idea, a different limit
Both products start where a CMS would: a client who wants to change a site you built, without forms or fields. Both work on the code as you wrote it and turn each publish into one commit.
CMS Brew draws the line at content: texts, links, images and other values. New pages, layout changes and code are refused, and the request comes to you. Siteshare lets you choose per client: text and images, blocks and pages, design, or everything. What is above a client’s level isn’t refused but waits for your approval, so a client can still ask for a new section and you only have to say yes.
A draft before it’s live
In Siteshare the client’s change is a draft on the real site, running in a sandbox of its own. Publish builds exactly the files that go live on a clean copy first; only a site that builds gets a commit on main. CMS Brew shows the change over your live page and leaves the build to your host, which keeps the last good build if one fails.
Price
For five sites the two cost about the same: $36 a month in Siteshare, $39 in CMS Brew. Siteshare is free for one site and costs less a site as you grow; CMS Brew has a cheaper year.
When CMS Brew is the better choice
- Clients should only ever change texts, links and images, and anything bigger always comes to you.
- You want guard levels per kind of field: open, warn, review or locked.
- You pay yearly: CMS Brew's year is $312, Siteshare's $390.
Questions
Can a client add a section or a page?
In Siteshare, yes: on the level Blocks and pages or higher it goes live like any other change, and on a lower level it waits for your approval. CMS Brew refuses new pages and layout changes in the editor and sends the request to you.
Which one is cheaper?
For five sites Siteshare is $36 a month and CMS Brew $39. A sixth site is $6 in Siteshare and $10 in CMS Brew; a year for five sites is $312 in CMS Brew and $360 in Siteshare. Siteshare is free for one site.
Does the client see a change before it goes live?
In both. CMS Brew paints the pending change over your live page. Siteshare runs the site itself with the draft in a sandbox, so the client clicks through the real changed site, on a phone, tablet or computer, before Publish.
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