Sanity Reviews & Product Details

It acts as a backend database for my project and really helps me a lot. To hook it up with any regular project is really easy and with a few simple concise lines of schema, you make yourself a mighty CMS (Content Management System). Where updating and managing the content is really easy.

I used it in my portfolio: https://reddymahendra52.netlify.app/ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Regularly I am using Sanity to update the content on my site, I don't know if what I telling is even some hindrance or if there is some way around I don't get to update the content of my site directly from the main Sanity website. I always have to open my dev server and update the content. Other than this I love Sanity.

NOTE: ( In the latest upgrades this issue has been fixed, leaving the old one to know what was the difference between previous and new ones) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is extremely easy to create and maintain content schemas, as well as share them between multiple projects. Also, the GROQ query language is the best thing I have ever worked with! And probably the most important part: The support staff on Slack is the nicest bunch of people, but getting to a solution, especially on the not-so-obvious issues does require a bit of patience as of late. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are a few somewhat basic patterns that Sanity doesn't seem to have a good solution for out of the box. An example would be nested page structures - as much as it can definitely be achieved, thanks to how flexible Sanity Studio is with custom input components and actions, I found that it requires quite a bit of extra planning and development to implement it in a way that is both performant in querying and editor-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of customization of your schema. Plus I really love how easy it is to query the data using GROQ. It makes my work as a developer so much easier. Another great thing is the level of extensibility of the studio through the use of plugins. Thanks to the vision plugin I can test out any query before actually using it in my production applications. And since the release of visual editing an the studio internationalisation plugin the user experience is much better and not limited to english speaking customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the downsides of it is that it's not really easy to implement singleton documents. It would be great if Sanity let you specify that a document should be treated as a singleton directly when defining the schema for it instead of having to disable actions through the structure builder api.

Another downside is the friction created when trying to deploy the studio on a subdomain and implement visual editing. There's room for improvement there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love everything Sanity. From ease of use when integrating with my favorite framework (Next.js) to the anticipation of what they are working on next. The concept of 'Content as Data' and now 'Content Operating Systems' are pushing the edge in terms of bringing content to the forefront of marketing but the Sanity platform allows a developer with unique use cases to take full advantage of how easy it is to structure 'data' with easy ways to manifest it on the platform of your choice.

As a developer, I have watched Sanity improve their developer experience with their offerings (live preview etc.) working out of the box.

I love seeing posts from Knut and Simeon and enjoy how much they enjoy presenting Sanity to the developer community. Working for Sanity, for me would be a dream come true. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanity have worked hard to constantly improve their product out of the box. I would like to see some limited exposure to things that they hide away for Enterprise customers, such as access and authentication. But, I do also understand why this is available on paid plans (just would like to play with stuff that I don't get to). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Integrating this into my Next.js apps has been a breeze to do. Also building a custom side structure has been pretty easy and the customization that Sanity allows is pretty nice! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I understand that they have to make money, but sometimes some of the features they release aren't associated with a pricing tier until you go to use it. Furthermore, having features out of the box linked to via navigation that require payment has been a little frustrating. I have had editors in my studio clicking on things like scheduling because it was just there. However, that costs money but it's in the top nav by default. I believe I can remove this and I understand it's to upsell but still annoying.

I would also like to see more complex/complete example projects as well as better plugins for block text. For example, their table plugin comes nowhere near that of Contentful's. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are so many features of Sanity I like it's hard to summarize it, but here goes. The overall developer experince is great, it's a very "developer centric" service. They offer a place to spin up a quick example site. Sanity's Studio (CMS) is extendable, so you can tweak it to meet your needs. There's also a nice number of plugins created by community members you can use. Sanity has a generous free tier. They have a slack channel where they offer support and it also has a large active community of very talented delopers and members that are willing to help. They offer a place to promote their community members and contributions and projects. I also enjoy how they host open houses and meetups where they debut new features and highlight community member's work and expereinces with Sanity. It's also been exciting to see how much the company has grown over the years with funding, new team members and expanding offices into the States. I highly recommend checking out Sanity! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanity’s Growth tier plan costs $15 per seat per month, and I’m not a fan of the per-seat pricing model. A flat-rate option—say, $15–$35 per month for up to 50 users—would be far more appealing. Per-seat pricing adds up quickly, often leading teams to share logins to cut costs, which isn’t great for security. While the Growth plan offers a lot of valuable features, the pricing structure feels restrictive for teams that need multiple users but don’t necessarily scale revenue at the same rate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanity is an incredible combination of technical innovation, flexibility and community. Portable text and the GROQ query language are both fantastic innovations. The ability to describe a content model as a schema allows total flexibility. The responsive and friendly user community is always on hand to help should the need arise. All of the above, combined with a very generous pricing model, makes Sanity stand out head and shoulders from the rest of the field. Sanity particularly shines as an alternative for people coming from traditional, monolithic systems such as WordPress. It even features a robust media library and CDN. Recent additions like the visual editor just take it all to the next level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't 'dislike' this, but a learning curve needs climbing at first. The community makes this process fun and engaging. I have found the Sanity Slack to be really very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanity's approach to supporting the design, creation, use, and reuse of structured content strikes an ideal balance between supporting known tasks and needs (like references, workflow management, user roles, editor experience, flexible content APIs, etc.) and leaving the doors open to build efficient tools and workflows for highly specific use cases. I've used a number of other headless/decoupled systems in the past (as well as content APIs on traditional tightly coupled CMSs), and each time have eventually run into weird system constraints that have forced me to mold my structured content design to the limitations of their systems. Not so with Sanity: anything I can think of, it can do.

Update 2024-03-02: After working with Sanity with an enterprise client for going on three years now, I can also confidently report that the Sanity team's dedication to supporting and improving the product and service is outstanding. They regularly make improvements to the core set of tools that make them more reliable, more robust, and more adaptable. They are also actively engaged in offering new features, including those built around emerging technologies like LLMs. Mercifully, these are all "opt-in"—some fit my clients' use cases; some do not. They also, from the looks of things, appear to be moving into new spaces thoughtfully and deliberately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Honestly, there's nothing I "dislike" about Sanity. They've gotten to the beating heart of the difference between "content as pages" and "content as data" and have built a tool that allows the rest of us to get on with the work of building a better web. I have found, however, some challenges in my experience so far:

Getting clients to understand the mind shift. Setting up and integrating Sanity looks different to stakeholders and collaborators than standing up a Drupal or WordPress site. They worry that structured content is a fad. That decoupled architectures are unnecessary (and therefore a waste of resources). That they're getting locked into a monolithic system that will end up weighing them down like all the others have. I've found that there is some preparation and change management here that is unique among content-oriented projects. It can be managed, but it's worth being prepared for.

Learning the technology. As other reviewers have no doubt noted, Sanity can be deployed and integrated by a team with bare-bones development skills, but to realize its full potential requires at least a working knowledge of React. (I say this having used Sanity both before and after learning React myself.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ten years using Sanity, I still appreciate that Sanity can be very lightweight and very robust. The versatility is so helpful to me and my clients. Great for SPAs and informational websites and easily scales for multi-language websites, e-commerce and much more. Now using Sanity with Vue 3 and I'm even happier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I work with small businesses and organizations. Most of them struggle to understand how to use Sanity - I find it takes repeated reminders about how to use the CMS. This could be at least in part just me - that I need better CMS organization, but videos for how to use Sanity designed for content managers, copywriters, editors, bloggers, etc. would be pretty cool to see. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanity has a number of templates that you can use to get you started instantly with everything you need for a fully functional site. But you are never locked into anything because you can customise EVERYTHING that you need to. And on top of all of that, the generous free tier means you can easily start any hobby projects at no cost at all. You'd be silly not to give it a go! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While you can host the editor (Sanity Studio) yourself, there is no option for hosting the backend yourself. So you do need to consider how your project may grow to determine if the paid-tier is viable for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.