Sanity

A customizable content workspace backed by a real-time content platform.

headlesscontent lake

Websitesanity.io

CategoryContent & CMS

PricingFreemium

Card requiredNo

Open sourceYes

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ABOUT

What is Sanity?

Sanity is a real-time content platform that combines a customizable open-source editor (Sanity Studio) with a hosted backend called the Content Lake. It offers GROQ queries, live previews and portable text for rich content modeling.

BEFORE YOU SIGN UP

What you should know

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Real-time content lakeSanity's backend provides instant content updates with live preview and real-time multi-user editing, no manual publishing steps required.

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Fully customizable StudioSanity Studio is a React app you can extend with custom components, dashboards and input widgets to match any editorial workflow.

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GROQ and portable textGROQ is a powerful custom query language and portable text is a rich JSON format for structured content. Both are innovative but differ from industry norms, requiring upfront learning.

Dataset limits on free tierThe free tier caps at 10,000 documents and 100,000 API requests per month. Content-heavy projects may hit limits quickly.

COMMUNITY

From the forums

Sanity has an active developer community on GitHub and Discord, with strong sentiment around its flexibility and real-time collaboration features. The GROQ query language and portable text format receive praise for being innovative, but some users note the learning curve is steeper than traditional CMS platforms and that costs grow quickly with large datasets.

— Community sentiment · Reddit

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FAQ

Questions, answered.

What is the Content Lake in Sanity?＋

The Content Lake is Sanity's real-time hosted data store that syncs content across all clients instantly. It supports draft workflows, version history and multi-user editing out of the box.

Is Sanity open source?＋

Yes, Sanity Studio is open source and MIT licensed. The backend Content Lake is a hosted SaaS with a free tier and paid plans for production scale.