The free CMS
that doesn't make
you pay per plugin.
Devani is a fast, beautiful, open-source CMS — a visual editor, blog, SEO, and forms layer that comes pre-wired to the best tools for media, captions, image generation, and interactivity. Free forever. No plugin marketplace. No premium tier for basic features.
A site that feels like yours.
Drag, drop, ship. Your design system, your tokens, your content.
Get in touch →A real CMS, built properly.
The Devani layer handles the editor, content, deployment, and SEO. Pre-wired integrations handle media, accessibility, and interactivity. You get a complete stack without assembling one yourself.
Visual editor
Drag, drop, edit in place. What you see is what gets published. No "preview" / "live" mismatch.
Blog & pages
Write posts, schedule them, organize them. Same editor for pages and posts. No post-type headaches.
Media library
Upload once, get every size. Auto WebP, EXIF cleanup, fast global delivery. Your images stay tidy without you babysitting.
SEO built in
Every page has first-class fields for meta titles, descriptions, OG tags, and schema. Fill them in once, ship them everywhere.
Contact forms
Build forms in a click. Submissions to email, CRM, or Sheets. Spam protection included.
Easy deployment
Push changes live with a button. Atomic deploys with instant rollback if anything breaks. Bring your own hosting.
Auto backups
Every change saved. Roll back any page, section, or whole site to any point in the last 30 days.
Built for speed
Pages load under a second. No bloat, no plugin conflicts, no "optimize your images" warnings.
Fast, the way fast used to mean.
Every Devani site is statically rendered and served as clean HTML. No PHP roundtrips, no bloated themes, no plugin queue. Just pages that load instantly.
{
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Your Brand",
"url": "yoursite.com",
"areaServed": "Worldwide",
"aggregateRating": 4.9
}
SEO that actually works.
SEO is a first-class part of Devani — every page has its own metadata, schema, and OG fields right in the editor. Fill them in once, and Devani handles the markup, sitemap, and search-engine plumbing from there.
- Meta titles, descriptions, and canonicals per page
- Open Graph & Twitter card fields, with image preview
- JSON-LD schema for articles, products, local business
- XML sitemap kept current as you publish
- 301 redirect manager for clean URL migrations
- Alt text generated for every image, by AltText
- Core Web Vitals reporting in your dashboard
Edit your site by talking to it.
Devani connects natively to ChatGPT and Claude. Ask either one to write a blog post, generate a hero image, fix a typo, or build a new landing page — and watch it happen, live in your editor.
- Works with your existing ChatGPT or Claude account — no API keys, no copy-paste.
- Drafts land safely. Every change snapshots, every snapshot rolls back in one click.
- Your editor and your AI see the same site, in real time.
Comes with the tools that make sites great.
Devani is natively integrated with best-in-class optimization, media, and SEO tools — so the things that usually take a stack of plugins just work, out of the box.
Tonta
Media storage and global CDN delivery. Automatic WebP conversion, every size you need, served fast from anywhere in the world.
AltText
Generate accurate alt text for every image in your library, automatically. Better accessibility, better SEO, no manual writing.
Pinpic
AI image generation and interactive images. Generate art on demand, then layer hotspots, tooltips, and clickable regions for product diagrams, maps, or visual stories.
Why people switch from WordPress.
WordPress changed the web. But in 2026, you shouldn't need ten plugins and a weekly update routine just to run a website.
WordPress
~$346/year in plugins
- —Hosting setup & cPanel
- —Page builder plugin ($59/yr)
- —SEO plugin ($99/yr)
- —Forms plugin ($59/yr)
- —Backup plugin ($70/yr)
- —Security plugin to configure
- —Weekly plugin updates
- —Plugin conflicts & "white screen of death"
Devani
Free, forever
- ✓Easy deployment
- ✓Page builder built in
- ✓SEO built in
- ✓Contact forms built in
- ✓Automatic backups
- ✓Security-first design
- ✓Updates when you want them
- ✓No plugin conflicts
I moved my consulting site from WordPress in an afternoon. I haven't thought about plugin updates since. It's faster, it's cleaner, and my Lighthouse score went from 62 to 99.
Things people ask first.
Is Devani really free?
Yes. The CMS, the editor, the source code, the SEO, the forms — all free, all open-source, forever. No tier, no trial, no credit card. The integrated tools (Tonta, AltText, Pinpic) have their own generous free tiers too, so most people pay nothing at all.
Where does my site actually run?
On your own infrastructure. Devani is self-hosted — you deploy it on the server, VPS, or platform of your choice. Uptime and SSL depend on your hosting, not on us, which means you stay in control.
Can I move my WordPress site over?
Yes, but not via a one-click button — we don't build deterministic migrators. The realistic path is: export your WordPress content, then ask Claude or ChatGPT (connected to Devani via MCP) to read the export and recreate your pages, posts, and metadata in Devani. It's surprisingly fast, and the AI handles the messy bits (mismatched fields, weird shortcodes, broken HTML) better than any importer we could ship.
How is the SEO compared to WordPress?
Equal or better, in our experience. Devani gives every page its own SEO fields right in the editor — titles, descriptions, schema, OG image — so the metadata lives with the content. Combined with clean semantic HTML and fast page loads, most users see their Core Web Vitals improve after migrating.
Do I have to use ChatGPT or Claude?
No. You can build your whole site in the visual editor without ever touching an AI. The AI integration is a feature, not a requirement — it's there when you want it.
Are there updates I have to install?
Yes — Devani is real software, and sometimes there are updates for new features, fixes, or security. But updates are opt-in and run on your schedule. There's no auto-update pressure, no breaking-plugin chain, and you can pin to a specific version forever if you want.
What if I want to leave later?
Export your content any time as HTML, Markdown, or JSON. Your domain stays yours. The software is open-source, so worst case you keep running your own copy. No lock-in, anywhere.
Stop paying for plugins.
Start shipping pages.
Free forever, open-source, and ready in 60 seconds. Bring your domain, your content, and your weekends back.