Sanity alternatives
Sanity is already the cheapest headless CMS we track at a small site with 3 users ($45/mo). Here's how the other 2 compare. The closest match, Contentful, covers 89% of what Sanity does. Each one shows how much of it it covers, capability by capability, next to the price.
What Sanity does
Core: Structured content modeling, Content delivery API, Content models as code.
Important: Visual live-preview editing, Multi-language localization, Editorial workflow and scheduling (partly), Granular roles and permissions (partly), Versions and environments (partly), Media library and image CDN, Extensions and integrations, AI content assistance (partly), Security and compliance.
Also has: Marketer page building (partly), Open source and self-hosting (partly), App backend features (partly), Real-time collaboration (partly).
Alternatives to Sanity at a small site with 3 users, best match first
- Contentful: $300/mo Official page unreachable (HTTP 429); prices unverified (Lite ($300/month)). It covers 89% of Sanity; missing or partial: Content models as code (partly), Multi-language localization (partly), Security and compliance (partly). Free plan: Free: 10 users, 2 roles, 2 locales, 100K API calls and 50 GB CDN bandwidth a month (no overages), 10,000 records.
- Strapi: $59/mo Excludes seats: seat price not published (Starter plan, monthly billing, plus extra API requests to reach 500k a month). It covers 84% of Sanity; missing or partial: Visual live-preview editing (partly), Multi-language localization (partly), Media library and image CDN (partly), Security and compliance (partly), Real-time collaboration. Free plan: Open-source Community edition is free to self-host; no free Strapi Cloud plan is listed on the pricing page..
Other kinds of products that cover part of Sanity
- WordPress.com (Website builders): covers 76% of Sanity; missing or partial: Structured content modeling (partly), Content delivery API (partly), Content models as code (partly), Multi-language localization (partly), Media library and image CDN (partly)
- Webflow (Website builders): covers 65% of Sanity; missing or partial: Structured content modeling (partly), Content delivery API (partly), Content models as code, Multi-language localization (partly), Media library and image CDN (partly)
- Ghost(Pro) (Newsletter): covers 48% of Sanity; missing or partial: Structured content modeling (partly), Content delivery API (partly), Content models as code, Visual live-preview editing (partly), Multi-language localization (partly)
Prices at every size
- Sanity: a small site with 3 users $45/mo, a 10-person team with 2 languages $198/mo (Free plan not counted: commercial use not stated)
- Contentful: a small site with 3 users $300/mo, a 10-person team with 2 languages no public price (Official page unreachable (HTTP 429); prices unverified)
- Strapi: a small site with 3 users $59/mo, a 10-person team with 2 languages $150/mo (Excludes seats: seat price not published)
Prices are USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) for one production project on the vendor's managed cloud, including seats and any overage needed for the stated usage. Products sold only as self-hosted software are priced on their license (often $0), and hosting is not included.
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