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Is there any free CMS?Yes, plenty of CMSs are free, but "free" covers three different deals. Open-source CMSs such as WordPress, Ghost, Strapi and Payload cost nothing to download and a fair amount to run. Hosted free tierOct 20 · 20 min readvelocms.hashnode.dev
