Sanity Reviews: 4.7/5 — Highly Rated

Flexibility and ability to customize for any project

Learning curve especialy GROQ as a new query language

With Sanity i can create any kind of data that i need in the front end, be it a data table, pricing table, call to cations, documentation, you name it...

I have used other cms too but sanity is best

We can't use tailwind for customisation in sanity.studio subdomain

We can edit content on website with revalidation instead of changing the code and redeploying it

Sanity is such a pleasure to use, and creating custom content types like a hybrid photo/video gallery or just a curation of references to other content is a breeze. It's ease of use with React frameworks like Gatsby and NextJS is pretty seamless, and they have great docs on each integration use case.

It would be tremendously useful if Sanity had a granular way to push content between datasets for the case of staging updates to clients.

Sanity allows me to create content types precisely how I want to with no other CMS fluff.

I was able to create, integrate and deploy a Sanity - Next.js application in under 24 hours. The Personal Website tutorial was very helpful, The documentation on the types was well laid out.

The need to revalidate was not discussed in the tutorials. This is more to do with properly setting up ISR in Next.js, I had to figure this out on my own.

Having a single admin portal for Shopify, CMS, and MUX. I was struggling finding a solution for a client, but this seems to do the trick for me. I still have some MUX learning to do, so time will tell.

Sanity as a CMS has been really helpful to integrate it with my projects. The rendering time is very fast to fetch data from sanity. The user experience of sanity 's platform is also worth having.

I am exploring sanity. One thing I would say is that we've to go to sanity studio link to publish our content. It would be good if sanity provide any pre made form to ad in website for some users like admin

We can place all our content that doesn't require any analytics and these products are just content for our website. So, sanity will handle our content management.

The core service itself, providing a hosted structured content database is slick and easy to use. I've found it reasonable for small jamstack sites to provide a nice content editor to non-technical users. I'm also in the process of shifting a variety of diverse firebase projects into Sanity. The documentation is solid (a big thing for me) and I've found their Slack chat support team to be wonderful. This is huge! Sometimes that is exactly what you need in order to level up your knowledge of a service.

I've been able to stay on the free tier with my projects and thank goodness. The first tier that costs is really quite expensive. I've seen this more and more with web services and I suppose it is reasonable but yeah, it's expensive.

I was spending a lot of time building custom CRUD backends for internal use services that I build. Having that additional step of having to build out a (sometimes quite complex) CRUD interface for something was an impediment ton innovation. Sanity solves that for me and it's great.

I love the way I can just forget about managing the database, that I can easily connect to my project on my localhost and the ability to snapshot the data.

I'm coming from a perspective of managing and hosting databases, so being hands-off is out of my comfortzone.

Sanity it incredibly easy to get a new project off the ground quickly. Great to experiment with features, tear them down and trying something new.

All the team, developer or designer or content manager, will be happy about using sanity

Media management is not very integrated, there is a plugin, but by default it could be more easy to have a fully managed media library. No-profit plan removed

Technical easy setup, safe and secure. Data hosted by them

Exceptional product. Using Sanity has streamlined our development workflow. Every aspect has exhibited flawless functionality, from scalability to the smooth incorporation of new features and integrations. This platform truly excels in all regards. Best solution for structured content.

Moving the existing content to Sanity isn't as simple as we hoped and requires more time investment. Furthermore, we're also looking at shifting from our Vue stack to React in the near future, as React + Sanity offers a more advanced and straightforward integration compared to Vue + Sanity.

The flexibility to arrange content according to our preferences and the capability to retrieve content through customized queries are standout features. Our primary aim is to offer our clients an exceptional CMS experience, and in this aspect, Sanity unquestionably fulfills our expectations.

Having a content schema as code makes so much sense. You can version control it, make your own starter kits and easily create custom input components. But the hard parts — like data management and scaling — are taken care of for you, so it's the perfect balance of full customizability and speed of development. The community around Sanity is also really good, especially the Slack space and Youtube virtual meetups.

The data attribute limit is something you always need to be mindful of when modelling your content. Also, if using Typescript for your studio code, it can be hard to find documentation and guides about how to use it, although Typescript support is quite recent with V3 so I expect this will improve in time.

Sanity is perfect for creating marketing websites that work well for both developers and content creators. In our organisation, it is a tool developers love to use, and its flexibility allows you to tailor the editing experience to your content team's needs.

Customisation is the real power. Everything can be personalized to the business needs.

I couldn't find a way to reference objects inside Arrays

I use it as a headless CMS to couple with Gatsbyjs. So far it's been great.

The workflow process is intuitive. The documentation is sufficient. The pricing tiers are reasonable. The community adoption is high.

The navigation of their docs could be improved. There could be more information in their docs, to cover advanced use cases and customizations.

Allows us to build a CMS for client websites so they can manage their content.

Sanity has really nailed what a headless/composable CMS should be. It gives us all the features we could imagine wanting from our content layer, without ever getting in our way. The fact that the Studio can be embedded into our own Next.js application and customized at will using React opens up a world of opportunities to use this not only as a replacement for our old CMS (WordPress) but for all kinds of other content workflows we haven't even imagined yet. They're working hard to stay up-to-date with the latest features in Next.js with guides for using live previews in the App Router just landing, as well as the ability to use fetch which enables Next.js' cache features.

The docs and APIs can be a bit lacking when it comes to customization and we have already, on our first project, ended up having to do some hacky custom solutions to customize the Desk tool due to lack of options and APIs we require (for example, there's no way to set a default configuration of panes to always be open in the Editor). The pane-based structure can be confusing for non-technical users with the way that you may end up for example with two different preview panes open. There's also always one Publish button per pane which is also just confusing. This was another thing we had to do a messy hack to fix for our use cases (where we wanted a more Storyblok-like experience for our editors).

We have been looking for a headless CMS to replace WordPress for all of our agency's clients. It will allow us to stop worrying about managing servers and keeping WordPress up-to-date, and instead let us focus all development in one layer; Next.js. The fact that we can embed the Studio and host it on our own is a game changer. The CDN and Images workflow has finally given us a sensible workflow for responsive images. The Preview mode will save us unimaginable amounts of support hours since our customers can now just see what's going on.

Sanity makes it so much easier for my clients to add/edit content to their websites. It saves me the hassle from building an individual backend for each client. I just hook into sanity, and they can log in with a simple gmail account

My only issues with Sanity are the nuanced integrations with Next.js specifically. From version to version small things change and there aren't always previous implementations out there in the wild. Once you get past some of those speed bumps its smooth sailing!

Sanity prevents me from building indivualized backends which saves a load of time. Now each of my clients can hook into a similar back end that is user friendly instead of me hooking in mongodb and writing my own data management routes. This mitigates a huge chunk of work for me.

Sanity.io's infrastructure, based on JavaScript and React, seamlessly aligns with the Next.js environment, minimizing the learning curve and facilitating a familiar development experience. The scalability of the platform is remarkable, catering to the needs of both small-scale projects and large enterprise systems equally well.

For straightforward tasks, GROQ can feel overly verbose and complicated, and while it can handle complex, nested data structures, it can get unwieldy for larger data sets. So while it does offer power and flexibility, I've often found it more of a challenge than a convenience in my workflow.

Sanity allows me to define your own content types and structures with schemas in javascript. This lends me great flexability unlike a lot of other out of the box cms. This leads to better organization of my content and more efficient development workflows.

Clean and intuitive interface, good and throughout documentation with some video examples and tutorials, making it much more easy to start using the product. Query syntax is very powerful.

Getting started with Sanity CMS may have a steeper learning curve compared to simpler CMS solutions, but good docs and tutorial help. Compared to some other CMS options, can be more expensive, especially for larger projects or higher traffic websites.

Taking care of static contant and data, making development easier once you get used to using it. This makes developers more productive, cutting development costs.

sample data, examples to update, fetching data, integration with any frontend framework

if there are more video tutorials would be great

Put centralized data in one API. One single API point to quickly get data

Ease of use especially for someone using react and the flexibility to use in multiple platforms with little or no effort.c

you need to learn GROQ to be able to be productive. Setting up the assets is tedious as it depends on knowledge of GROQ.

It addresses all my content requirements in seamless way. I'm planning to build my entire learning platform using Sanity.

Sanity has a gorgeous embedded studio which fits in perfectly with any NextJS project.

The only drawback is the limited amount of free tokens you get.

For me, as a frontend developed I use it as a temporary backend solution.

I love how easy it is to develop a fully functioning cms with code. Also love how you can embed the studio into a nexts site

Sometimes the documentation could be better, especially around typescript examples

Acting as a coma for websites we build for clients

What do I like about Sanity? Easy to get started with a well-documented query language, worry-free data storage, and you can manage your structure via code so you can track changes with Git. Best of both worlds if you're looking to host your own app, but aren't interested in hosting the database or the CMS.

It might be nice to have an easier way to migrate data between projects, like staging vs. production. It is doable, but it's not as easy as the initial setup.

The main project I've used sanity on is essentially an online technical user manual. It's a basic web app, but I needed a nice editing experience for my client and was looking for something that would keep overhead low on that piece so I could focus attention on the front-end experience. Sanity was perfect for this.

Sanity provides a platform that can provide a fully custom UI with unique validation requirements to suit our client's needs and provides both a GraphQL API and a JS SDK to fetch this data. What more can you ask for?

One minor annoyance would be working alongside other devs on the same data fields. If there was some way to do this without having a dataset per developer, that would be wonderful.

Sanity really removes the painpoint of trying to manage data in a CMS. Compared to other CMS', it is much easier to use for everyone on the team, and our lcients.

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.

One of the downsides of it is that it's not really easy to implement singleton documents without having to write a tailor made plugin just for that. 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. Another negative is that there is no way of translating the studio UI. I have commented on the open issue on github about a year ago, and despite it being the most commented on issue it hasn't seen any progress since its opening four years ago.

Sanity is taking away most, if not all, of the complexity associated with managing content for a website. I have used it for my personal website as the source of most of the data present on it and for client websites as well.

Fast ,UI, Studio... easy integration with Next.ja, React.js, Remix.js

I love it nothing to dislike about it! One of my favorites CMS!

Fast refresh ,UI , deployment with Vercel and much more...

It's rare to see such effort put into supporting the latest technologies and tools. With extensive documentation for each, I could find exactly what I needed for my toolset and use sanity effectively from day one, thanks to documentation. Providing hosting for Sanity Studio was also a big plus.

To put it shortly, you will be a victim of vendor lock-in. You will need to carefully consider your use case and predict what will happen at scale. Will it be worth the cost for the tools that Sanity provides?

We wanted an easy way to record hand-picked links and their website's metadata. Sanity was perfect for being able to record, change, review, and publish these bits of content for later user-facing applications

I like that it is scalable and fairly easy to understand.

The documentation could be more thurough.

It's solving the fact that you don't need to manage client's content.

Sanity is fantastic on all nearly all fronts. From developer experience to end-user use, I find everyone on my team as well as our clients to be very satisfied.

I love that the Sanity team iterates so quickly and that they're constantly improving their product. That being said, I feel like developer documentation lags behind and it's often not easy to find solid documentation on new things.

Image optimization pipeline, content management, webhooks, CMS customizability. I don't often find myself too frustrated with any limitations of Sanity per-se. Rather, a lot of the shortcomings or lost time comes from lack of documentation on new features and APIs.

It's easy to customize a data structure to meet my business requirements. They make default entry interfaces that are excellent but can be customized with react.

The only downside is that it's a little more difficult to consume and reference apis outside of sanity. The best data lake wouldn't necessarily need to house everything in one warehouse.

They're making atomic, composable data structures approachable from a development and an authoring point of view. My entire team has increased productivity, not just the devs.

Our newsletter content is our product. So the content development process itself has to be pretty slick. We explored other options and considered building, but what for? Sanity does all the heavy lifting for you enabling a rich content schema, deep relationships, and editor customization to the max. Their well thunk Next.js templates made it super simple for us to get started and their community eco-system is robust.

Honestly, not much. I think they should consider making it easier to migrate to Sanity from other tools, to reduce the developer dependencies. But their CLI makes the current process rather smooth.

Our content schema is our database. It allows us to create once and publish everywhere. We can customize the Studio to our exact workflow and ensure an optimal content development experience for our writers/editors.

The deploy is easier the another's, and the concept about development is really consistent.

Integrations of plug-ins, to create one by my self.

My blog backend.