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Cloud CMS vs Sanity: What are the differences?

What is Cloud CMS? Create, manage and publish amazing content to your web sites and mobile applications. Easily Create, Upload and Edit;Use Simple Content Forms;Full Text Search and Query; Workspaces.

What is Sanity? A headless CMS construction kit in JavaScript. 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.

Cloud CMS and Sanity can be primarily classified as "Cloud Content Management System" tools.

Some of the features offered by Cloud CMS are:

  • mobile content management
  • enterprise content management
  • document management

On the other hand, Sanity provides the following key features:

  • Open source editing environment
  • Hosted & scalable APIs
  • Rich, precise data model

"API-first, "headless" CMS" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Cloud CMS, while over 6 developers mention "Hosted" as the leading cause for choosing Sanity.

Sanity is an open source tool with 1.15K GitHub stars and 91 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Sanity's open source repository on GitHub.

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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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Former Prismic.io developer here. If you want something robust vs "looks good from a distance," I would recommend Contentful. They are the biggest for a reason. Their CMS handles a lot of use cases and has great documentation. Prismic.io will work well in simple blog-esque use cases. Their more complex features break easily and their documentation is confusing. It has fallen quite a distance behind Contentful. Sanity appears to be a much newer CMS and you might come to regret the lack of features, but I've only briefly reviewed their product.

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