🆚 Contentful vs. Sanity

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Content management system
Content management system

About

Contentful is a commercial, cloud-based, headless content management system that structures content for use across multiple digital platforms via APIs.

It features a flexible content modeling framework, tools for AI-generated content and personalization, and a marketplace with over 100 pre-built integrations.

Sanity is a cloud-based headless CMS that stores content as structured data in a hosted content lake and delivers it via APIs to any frontend.

It features a customizable open-source editing Studio built with React, real-time collaboration support, its own query language for JSON called GROQ (Graph-Relational Object Queries) alongside GraphQL, an asset pipeline with image transformations, versioning, localization, and enterprise capabilities such as SSO and role-based access.

Headquarters

Berlin, Germany
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️100K API calls + 50 GB CDN bandwidth per month
Lite$300/month
PremiumCustom
Free version ✔️
Growth$15/seat/month
EnterpriseCustom

Categories

CMS › Rank #9
CMS › Rank #15

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Contentful CMS is 1.8 times more popular than Sanity.
Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Contentful is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Sanity is more popular in Norway, South Africa, and Saudi Arabia.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Norway
Australia
Netherlands
Canada
Sweden
France
Finland

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Contentful is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Sanity is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, and art, culture and heritage sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Travel
Health
Fashion/Beauty
Finance/Banking
Software/Hardware
Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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See also

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