Sanity Reviews & Product Details

What we like best about Sanity is the unmatched flexibility and development speed it offers. It’s a crucial building block in our tech stack, seamlessly fitting into our composable architecture approach. By combining Sanity with other cutting-edge tools, we’re able to build sophisticated digital experiences faster and with greater ease. This flexibility empowers us to push creative boundaries while maintaining efficiency and scalability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One downside of using Sanity, and the headless approach in general, is the cost involved. While Sanity offers great flexibility and there’s a vibrant community with many extensions available, each new feature still needs to be developed from scratch. This makes the process more resource-intensive compared to using all-in-one platforms that come with built-in functionalities. As a result, the cost of building and maintaining products with Sanity can be higher, which may not be ideal for startups or smaller companies with limited budgets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The features are great and have enough, and more options with the best in class react as the base for developing a CMS. With the new plans, there are options on how to publish content sequentially and better control of access/writing controls when working with a team.

I love the plugins created officially and by the community. They are so useful and do exactly what they are expected to do. Most of these are now up to date and meet the needs of any developer.

The script is much easier to handle than before and the documents online are very easy and helpful. With the dashboard and structure being customizable, this makes it very user friendly for the final user to systematically work on the designed arrangement of tabs making it feel like folders and subfolders. All my users have thanked me for organizing their data.

With the new 'perspective' feature, one can decide to use 'draft' content or the 'published' content based on their development or production environment. This helps in checking the content draft visual feel on the frontend site before it gets published.

GROQ as a languages is very easy to learn and definitely the documentation to support it is massive. The APIs too have versioning available so that one can decide which version can be used in the query language.

There is a whole community of people on Slack who are just willing to help people get around the code, showcase their works and make things happen. The most useful channel to me the 'i-made-this' channel. It shows how vibrant the community is and what are the possibilities of using Sanity as your preferred Content Management Database/Tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanity as a CMS builder still needs you to learn how to code. There was a little learning curve for me as a non-developer.

Like any other new system, it took me some time. Thankfully, in about 1-2 hours to settle in but it eventually happened. Nothing to dislike about Sanity frankly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the amount of control given to developers to design and edit the content structure and user interface. The GROK format for parsing data is similar to GraphQL but slightly more efficient when working with Sanity. I work with a few non-profits, and I love that Sanity has a payment tier specific to non-profits. I also like that there is some image editing directly within the content editing interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can't think of too many things that I dislike about it. The setup is pretty straightforward. I guess one thing that I had difficulty with at first was understanding how to setup the rich text system which they call "Portable Text". I got it eventually but it seemed sort of finicky at first. At times the documentation can be confusing but they are actively updating that part of their site and it seems to be getting better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pretty much a perfect solution to admin your data. Having ability to tweak and customize studio without any issue is a huge plus. Most importantly is a groq language which is so convinient and ease to use that I hardly want to go back to my old setup. Using Sanity with Next JS and so far so good.

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It's just incredible to see how sanity supports their code. New features and perks comes almost every week. And it makes the product more useful then ever. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not good performance of the studio. It's understandable that studio data loads all content every time you open it page, but it takes 2-3 seconds each transition which can be anoing. And the most frustrating thing is manual dereferincing each asset and document. You requested a data? You probably need a data right? No, we have somthing better! Here is a reference to what you need :( Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The generous free-tier is an excellent starting point for building a headless website or application. The documentation and available libraries made integrating into my tech stack extremely easy.

The developer experience is excellent, but the dashboard can also be customized to have an amazing 'author experience' for non-developers to maintain and publish content.

I am confident that the investment in learning and building with Sanity will continue to be worth it for years, because I see the company continuing to add features, build community, and win a large enterprise customer base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For simple projects that I want to just launch quickly, I would love to see some kind of UI-based schema builder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanity is easily the most structured, flexible and well-documented content model out there. Workflows are streamlined while keeping updates under control. The customizable studio and first-class support makes it easy to use in modern tech stacks. It's real-time editing and strong developer experience makes the collaboration between content teams and devs seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanity is incredibly powerful but has a steep learning curve if you are unfamiliar with GraphQL. If you are looking for something to use heavily, pricing can also become a concern.

Once it's set up it's amazing but the set-up requires more work compared to traditional CMS solutions which might be a drawback for a team looking for an out-of-the-box experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanity has superb documentation & an engaged Slack community. Being able to create data schemas as simple JSON objects is particularly awesome.

The customisation potential within the Studio is excellent, custom workflows, custom content templates, fully brandable, and my favourite part, custom components for fields means you can produce an excellent content authoring experience whatever the schema/data may be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only negative is how quickly the pricing tiers jump in price, it would be nice to have a tier in between Team & Business tiers.

The recent addition of the "Growth" product tier provides a better option for smaller agencies/teams - although the restrictions on available roles is a little lacklustre. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've been using Sanity for about 4 years now, and what I love most about it is the flexibility and developer-friendly approach. Sanity allows me to structure content exactly how I need it. And the latest features added with live content, typegen and visual editing is superb!

We are a small agency building websites, e-commerce sites and internal systems for B2B customers, and Sanity if our go-to platform every time. It's quick and easy to implement, and takes only a couple of hours if we have a good predefined structure in mind.

Performance-wise, Sanity is super fast and everyone gotta love the GROQ query language. I think Sanity is overall the best headless CMS, but also the best option for other content heavy projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While I love Sanity, one thing that can be frustrating is that the Portable Text editor sometimes feels a little buggy. Pasting content into it can be tricky, and getting the formatting right isn’t always smooth. It occasionally requires extra tweaking to make things look the way I want. Other than that, it’s a fantastic platform! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanity.io has a brilliant balance, catering to both the content creator and the developer. Allowing ease of use in both areas while allowing an extraordinary level of customization for your datasets. Any issues I had while learning the ropes have been quickly solved on the Sanity.io Slack page by both the Sanity.io Development team and the large and supportive community. Sanity has continued to grow and improve over the years and I am even more likely to reccomend it's use now than I ever have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

More advanced personalization and customization are pretty daunting to those unfamiliar with the suite. At the same time, there are some quality resources and documentation on their site. I would appreciate more step-by-step tutorials on more advanced and varied concepts and use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a developer, I don't want to use anything else. Sanity has the best DX in the business, and it's not close. It can handle both modeling and presenting data in any way you like. They are definitely pushing the boundary of what headless CMS's are capable of, continuing to innovate, and continuing to improve an already excellent product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish that they offered an organization / user based license for outside developers so that we could pay for our access instead of requiring each client to pay for a seat. Otherwise, the product is as near-as-makes-no-difference to perfect as anything I've ever used in this space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.