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Typeroll and Keystatic compared

Keystatic is a content tool you add to your own codebase. It saves content locally, to GitHub, or both, and opens an admin UI at /keystatic. Typeroll is a CMS that owns the site: it stores the content, generates the Astro project and publishes it.

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	Keystatic	Typeroll
Licence	MIT	MIT
Storage	Local files, GitHub, or both; Keystatic Cloud is also offered	CMS database; generated Astro source in your GitHub
Frameworks	Astro, Next.js and Remix guides	Astro, generated
Your code	You define collections and singletons in `keystatic.config.ts`	No site code to maintain
Deployment	Host must run Node.js for Keystatic's API routes in GitHub mode	Static files on your Cloudflare
Editing	Admin UI with fields (MDX, Markdoc, images, relationships, blocks)	Visual block editor, built-in AI assistant
AI agents	None mentioned in the official docs read	Hosted MCP server and REST API
Project status	README: "Things are experimental at the moment"	Beta

Choose Keystatic when

You write the site code yourself and want a light, code-configured editor with content as files.
You use Next.js or Remix as well as Astro.

Choose Typeroll when

People who do not code should build and change pages.
AI agents should work in the CMS through MCP.
You want publishing, media, forms and SEO included.

Sources

Facts about Keystatic come only from its own documentation and website, checked on 1 November 2026. If something has changed, tell us and we will correct it.

Keystatic introduction, https://keystatic.com/docs/introduction (2026-11-01)
Keystatic GitHub mode, https://keystatic.com/docs/github-mode (2026-11-01)
Keystatic repository, https://github.com/Thinkmill/keystatic (2026-11-01)
Astro docs, Keystatic guide, https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/cms/keystatic (2026-11-01)

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