Sanity
The composable content cloud for modern digital experiences
Founded
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Starting Price
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Category
Developer Tools
Last updated March 24, 2026
About Sanity
Sanity is a headless CMS and content platform that treats content as structured data, enabling teams to build custom content workflows, real-time collaborative editing, and multi-channel delivery. Its schema-as-code approach, GROQ query language, and fully customizable React-based Studio make it a developer-first platform for powering websites, apps, and omnichannel experiences.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Extremely flexible schema-as-code approach with full version control
- GROQ query language is powerful and concise for complex content fetching
- Real-time collaboration with live presence and conflict-free editing
- Portable Text stores rich content as structured data — no HTML lock-in
- Generous free tier with up to 20 users and unlimited content types
Key Features
Sanity Studio
Fully customizable, open-source React-based editing environment that can be tailored to any editorial workflow with custom components, views, and plugins.
GROQ Query Language
Purpose-built query language for filtering, sorting, joining references, and projecting fields in a single expressive query — more concise than GraphQL for content operations.
Portable Text
Rich text stored as structured JSON data, enabling custom block types, inline annotations, and rendering in any frontend framework without HTML lock-in.
Real-Time Collaboration
Multiple editors can work on the same document simultaneously with live presence indicators and conflict-free merging of changes.
Content Lake
Hosted real-time content database that stores all content as structured data, accessible via API with sub-second query performance at scale.
Schema-as-Code
Define content models in JavaScript/TypeScript with version control, enabling type-safe content APIs and automated TypeScript generation.
Pricing
Free
0/month
- Up to 20 users
- 2 public datasets
- Unlimited content types
- Customizable Studio
- Real-time content database
Featured In
#4
Best CMS Platforms for Multi-Site Management (2026)
Best for developer-led teams that want maximum architectural flexibility — the CMS where multi-site content management is a natural consequence of the data model, not an add-on feature.
#4
Best Headless CMS Platforms With GraphQL Support (2026)
Best for teams that value editing experience alongside GraphQL — the most customizable studio with competent GraphQL support, though GROQ is the preferred query language.