Complete guide to migrating your Butter CMS website to Remix. Leave Butter CMS's less flexible content modeling than sanity or contentful behind and get built on web standards. Free migration tool included.
You can migrate from Butter CMS to Remix for free using LeaveWP. Enter your site URL, choose Remix as the destination, and download your content — posts, pages, and media — in minutes. No API keys, passwords, or CLI tools required. Difficulty: Medium. Estimated time: 20-40 minutes.
Official docs: Remix Documentation
Headless CMS focused on ease of use for marketers. Marketing teams wanting headless CMS with a WordPress-like editing experience, but these limitations push teams toward modern alternatives.
Less flexible content modeling than Sanity or Contentful
This is the most common reason teams migrate away from Butter CMS. Remix eliminates this issue entirely.
Pricing jumps significantly after the free tier
With Remix, built on web standards — forms, headers, and http conventions.
Smaller ecosystem and fewer integrations
Modern architectures like Remix are designed to avoid this from the ground up.
Advanced features like localization cost extra
After migrating, you'll no longer need to worry about this — Remix takes a fundamentally different approach.
Full-stack React framework built on web standards. Built with JavaScript/TypeScript (React), it's full-stack web applications that benefit from web-standard patterns.
Built on web standards — forms, headers, and HTTP conventions
Nested routing with parallel data loading (no waterfalls)
Excellent error handling with error boundaries at every route
Works on any JavaScript runtime (Node.js, Deno, Cloudflare Workers)
Remix is open-source and free to use. You own your code and data with no vendor lock-in. Deploy to any host that supports JavaScript/TypeScript, or use managed platforms like Vercel and Netlify for zero-config deployments.
Side-by-side comparison based on real platform characteristics
| Metric | Butter CMS | Remix |
|---|---|---|
| Ease of Use | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 |
| Performance | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 |
| Flexibility | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5 |
| Cost | ⭐⭐ 2/5 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 |
| Scalability | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 |
| Ecosystem | ⭐⭐ 2/5 | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 |
| Language | API-based (any frontend) | JavaScript/TypeScript (React) |
| Pricing | Free / $83+/month | Free (open-source) |
| Open Source | No | Yes |
Ratings are based on publicly available data, documentation, and community consensus as of 2026. Individual experience may vary.
A detailed breakdown of how your Butter CMS content maps to Remix
What may need manual attention
Custom server-side logic, third-party integrations, and platform-specific plugins will need equivalent solutions in Remix. The core content (text, images, metadata) transfers cleanly.
Migrate your content in three simple steps
Enter your Butter CMS site URL — LeaveWP connects automatically.
Select Remix as destination and choose content options.
Download your migrated content or preview it in your browser.
Migrating from Butter CMS to Remix makes the most sense if you're experiencing less flexible content modeling than sanity or contentful or outgrowing Butter CMS's architecture. Remix is best for full-stack web applications that benefit from web-standard patterns.
You should migrate if: your Butter CMS site is slow, your hosting costs are climbing, you need developer flexibility, or you want to adopt a modern JAMstack architecture.
You might want to stay if: your Butter CMS site benefits from extremely easy for non-technical editors — feels like wordpress and you don't have JavaScript/TypeScript developers on your team. Butter CMS is genuinely easy to use, and that simplicity has value.
The migration itself is straightforward with LeaveWP — enter your Butter CMS URL, select Remix, and download your content. The more important question is whether Remix's architecture fits your team's skills and your project's long-term needs.
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