🆚 Payload CMS vs. Sanity
- 📈 Sanity is much more popular than Payload CMS.
- 🌎 Sanity is more popular in the United States, Norway, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Payload CMS is more popular in Mongolia, Argentina, and Lithuania.
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About
Payload is an open-source application framework and headless CMS built with 
Next.js that supports both self-hosting and cloud deployment.
It features automatic REST and 
GraphQL APIs from code-defined schemas, supports 
MongoDB and Postgres databases, and provides versioning and drafts, field-level localization, over 20 field types, granular access control, live preview, and a block-based layout builder.
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.
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Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⬆️ 55th most popular in the United States in the CMS category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Norway in the CMS category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Sweden in the CMS category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Denmark in the CMS category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in New Zealand in the CMS category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Finland in the CMS category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Amplience🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.