🆚 Ghost vs. Sanity

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Content management system
Content management system

About

Ghost is an open-source content management system built on Node.js. It is also available as a managed Pro service and supports newsletter delivery and paid member subscriptions.

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

Singapore
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️Open source
Pro Starter$11/month
Creator$31/month
Team$63/month
Business$249/month
Free version ✔️
Growth$15/seat/month
EnterpriseCustom

Categories

CMS › Rank #29
CMS › Rank #15
Subscriptions › Rank #8

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Sanity CMS is 1.8 times more popular than Ghost.
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 Ghost is more popular in Germany, India, and Russia.
United States
Norway
United Kingdom
Germany
Australia
France
Sweden
Netherlands
Canada
Spain

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Sanity is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Ghost is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, general news, and technical, business forums sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Entertainment
Health
Education/Reference
Travel
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
#13,052
#16,292
#16,434
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Rank
#1,434
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See also

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