Sanity

Sanity

Business Tools / Support, Sales, and Marketing / Cloud Content Management System
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ContentfulContentfulDirectusDirectus
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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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Software Developer at Billow Software·
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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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Contentful

Hi Nash,

Both have generous free tiers to get going. I find the Contentful free tier (Community) a bit more generous. And I work for Contentful - so I know have bias haha.

See the article I'm including here with the fair-usage policy to learn more.

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Fair Use Policy | Contentful (contentful.com)
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Knut Melvær
Knut Melvær
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October 26th 2021 at 9:14AM

I'm working for Sanity.io – so my interest here is clear, but I'll try my best to relay the objective information.

The generosity depends on how you compare. The biggest difference is that Contentful limits you to 1 free project per organization, while Sanity.io lets you make as many free projects as you want. Contentful will limit you on 48 content types, while Sanity gives you 2000 “unique attributes”, which is far more (it's counted that way because Sanity offers a real-time content lake where you can store JSON documents and it's not limited to the schema you set up in the Studio).

The “fair use” on Contentful's free plan also has hard limits, so even though they give you a bit more on some parameters (users and environments/datasets), Sanity.io offers you pay-as-you-go for API usage on the free plan as well. Contentful gives you 2 locales for free, while Sanity doesn't limit you.

Feel free to reach out to me in our community (slack.sanity.io), on Twitter (@kmelve), or email (knut@sanity.io). I would love to learn more about your hesitations about customizing the studio.

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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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Contentful

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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NouhaC
NouhaC
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June 1st 2021 at 1:53PM

I think Contentful looked bigger at that time simply because they've raised funds and put a lot of money into Advertising.

In terms of handled API calls or the number of companies/users on the platform, Prismic and Contentful are actually pretty close now.

Gabe was previously part of the Prismic team back at the early stages of the product when it was a small team of 20 people, the product and documentation have evolved a lot since then.

By the way @Gabe, you should definitely check it out now!

In general, it feels like Contentful is going full into the Headless CMS positioning where you can serve content across different apps/displays.

Prismic is focusing on serving teams building websites/apps in Javascript, with the idea of allowing developers to build a custom Page Builder for a marketing team. Developers would build page sections (CTA, Slider, Banners) as React/Vue components in their code, test them then ship them to the Page Builder. Marketing teams can access all page sections (Slices) and assemble them + fill them with content to create new pages.

Let's say that we took the decision to focus on JS developers and websites/apps made of reusable sections, dig deep into this use-case, and propose a solution that is not less generic.

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