Simplify your stack and build anything. Or everything.
Build tomorrow’s web with a modern solution you truly own.
Code-based nature means you can build on top of it to power anything.
It’s time to take back your content infrastructure.

The Agentic Content Framework

Move from intention to implementation faster with the AI-ready, open-source framework to help you build anything.

Payload 4.0 hero
Payload app structure and config

Payload is used in production by the most innovative companies on earth.

Code-first for builders.
Content-first for marketers.

Payload 4.0 Collage
Fully-typed. AI-ready.

Define your schema in code, and get a full backend.

payload admin dashboard on a laptop with folder structure overlayed
visual editing
your content as vector embeddings, that can be used as a custom chat bot
define schema code snippets
Fully-typed. AI-ready.

Define your schema in code, and get a full backend.

payload admin dashboard on a laptop with folder structure overlayed
visual editing
your content as vector embeddings, that can be used as a custom chat bot
define schema code snippets

We’re building a better way.

The current wave of content platforms has brought big promises but fallen short on flexibility, locking teams into closed ecosystems and boxing in developers.


Payload marks a new era.


Open source isn’t just a feature—it’s freedom. Freedom for everything from freelance projects to large-scale enterprise needs, giving developers the control to build as they need, while equipping marketers to create on their terms.


With Payload, finally build something you truly own.