🆚 DatoCMS vs. Sanity

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Content management system
Content management system

About

DatoCMS is a cloud-based headless CMS that organizes content and assets via APIs for delivery across websites, mobile apps, and other digital channels.

It features a no-code schema builder with modular content models and blocks, a GraphQL-first API, real-time collaboration, built-in media optimization through Imgix and Mux, localization at both project and field levels, fine-grained permissions, sandbox environments for safe editing, and CDN-backed global asset delivery with a claimed 99.99% uptime.

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

Florence, Italy
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️2 editors, 300 records, 10GB of traffic and 100k API calls per month
Professional€199+/month
EnterpriseCustom
Free version ✔️
Growth$15/seat/month
EnterpriseCustom

Categories

CMS › Rank #44
CMS › Rank #15

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Sanity CMS is 3 times more popular than DatoCMS.
Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Sanity is more popular in the United States, Norway, and the United Kingdom, while DatoCMS is more popular in Italy, Belgium, and Iceland.
United States
Norway
United Kingdom
Australia
Netherlands
Sweden
France
Italy
Germany
Denmark

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Sanity is more popular than DatoCMS in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Health
Education/Reference
Travel
Entertainment
Software/Hardware
Fashion/Beauty

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
#1,458
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