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What is Sanity?

Sanity is a headless, real-time CMS where the editor is an open source React-based construction kit and the backend is a graph-oriented cloud datastore with a globally distributed CDN.
Sanity is a tool in the Cloud Content Management System category of a tech stack.
Sanity is an open source tool with 5.3K GitHub stars and 431 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Sanity's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Sanity?

Companies
26 companies reportedly use Sanity in their tech stacks, including Messari, kickstartDS, and Boligmappa.

Developers
138 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Sanity.

Sanity Integrations

JavaScript, React, Vue.js, React Native, and Next.js are some of the popular tools that integrate with Sanity. Here's a list of all 10 tools that integrate with Sanity.
Pros of Sanity
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Headless
11
Hosted
7
Realtime
7
Powerful read + write API
7
Free for small projects
6
Customizable
5
API-based cms
5
Schema as a code
4
Easy setup, endless flexibility
4
Lightweight & pluggable Content studio
4
Works with GraphQL with Gatsby
4
Images API
4
Much better than WordPress
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Preview content
Decisions about Sanity

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Sanity in their tech stack.

Needs advice
on
ContentfulContentfulDirectusDirectus
and
StrapiStrapi

Hi, I went through a comprehensive analysis - of headless/api content management systems - essentially to store content "bits" and publish them where needed (website, 3rd party sites, social media, etc.). I had considered many other solutions but ultimately chose Directus. I believe that was a good choice.

I had strongly considered Contentful, Strapi, Sanity, and hygraph. Hygraph came in #2 and contentful #3.

Ultimately I liked directus for:

(1) time in business

(2) open source

(3) integration with n8n and Pipedream

(4) pricing

(5) extensibility

Thoughts? Was this a good choice? We have many WordPress sites we're not (at least now) looking to replace with Directus, but instead to push to.

I'd love some feedback.

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Nash Nziramasanga
Software Developer at Billow Software · | 3 upvotes · 111.5K views
Needs advice
on
ContentfulContentful
and
SanitySanity

Im building a simple portfolio website using Next.js and all the content is static, what's the best between Contentful and Sanity.

I really like the self-hosting and custom layout with sanity however I don't think time customizing is worth it anymore.

Any thoughts

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Maxim Filimonov
Needs advice
on
ContentfulContentfulprismic.ioprismic.io
and
SanitySanity

Hi Community, Would like to ask for advice from people familiar with those tools. We are a small self-funded startup and initial cost for us is very important at that stage. That's why we are leaning towards Sanity. The CMS will be used to power our website and flutter cross-platform mobile applications.

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Sanity's Features

  • Open source editing environment
  • Hosted & scalable APIs
  • Rich, precise data model
  • Graph oriented query language
  • Global asset and query CDN

Sanity Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Sanity?
Contentful
With Contentful, you can bring your content anywhere using our APIs, completely customize your content structure all while using your preferred programming languages and frameworks.
Netlify CMS
It is built as a single-page React app. You can create custom-styled previews, UI widgets, and editor plugins or add backends to support different Git platform APIs.
Strapi
Strapi is100% JavaScript, extensible, and fully customizable. It enables developers to build projects faster by providing a customizable API out of the box and giving them the freedom to use the their favorite tools.
WordPress
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
Google AdSense
It is a program run by Google through which website publishers in the Google Network of content sites serve text, images, video, or interactive media advertisements that are targeted to the site content and audience.
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Sanity's Followers
290 developers follow Sanity to keep up with related blogs and decisions.