Kiln

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About

Kiln is ranked #12 of 165 in content management systems on Inferse. It runs on API, Self-hosted, Web. There is a free plan. A free trial is offered. Paid plans start at $4.99/mo.

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Free plan: Yeskilncms.com
Paid from: $4.99/mokilncms.com

Facts

Free plan: Yeskilncms.com · 20 Sept 2026
Paid from: 4.99kilncms.com · 20 Sept 2026
What it does: Kiln is an open-source, click-to-edit CMS for static sites; invited editors change content on the page and each edit becomes a Git commit in a repository they own.kilncms.com · 29 Sept 2026
Editing: Editors can change text, images, documents, blocks, galleries, events, and calendar content from the site itself.kilncms.com · 29 Sept 2026
Publishing: Kiln supports drafts, scheduled publishing, named versions, history, and restoration, with publishes saved as Git commits.kilncms.com · 29 Sept 2026
Access controls: Site owners sign in with GitHub, while invited editors and members can use Google sign-in without GitHub accounts; editors can be scoped to pages or sections.kilncms.com · 29 Sept 2026
Review workflow: Kiln provides comment-only reviewer seats and a suggest mode where owners approve or decline proposed changes field by field.kilncms.com · 29 Sept 2026
Integrations: Kiln works with GitHub repositories and hosts that redeploy on push, including Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, Vercel, and GitHub Pages.kilncms.com · 29 Sept 2026
API and AI: A REST API and kiln-mcp let scripts and agents edit scoped, sanitized fields; optional AI assist uses an API key supplied by the user.kilncms.com · 29 Sept 2026
Security controls: The setup guide says the GitHub App can access only repositories selected during installation, and invited Google-email addresses are the only ones allowed to sign in as editors or members.kilncms.com · 29 Sept 2026
Data ownership: Site content remains plain HTML in the customer's GitHub repository on every plan, and the site can be kept after cancelling or leaving Kiln.kilncms.com · 29 Sept 2026
File limit: Uploaded documents are limited to 15 MB per file.kilncms.com · 29 Sept 2026
Supported site types: Kiln supports static HTML sites and documents a source mode for Astro-generated sites; the docs say Eleventy, Hugo, and Jekyll adapters are planned to follow.kilncms.com · 29 Sept 2026
Support: Self-hosted plans include community support on GitHub, while Fully managed includes priority support.kilncms.com · 29 Sept 2026
Intended users: Kiln describes itself for people who build static sites and want clients or other non-technical editors to update site content themselves.kilncms.com · 29 Sept 2026