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The Difference Between Sanity and AEM

Sanity: the modern, flexible AEM alternative

Sanity empowers enterprises to innovate faster, simplify workflows, and enhance scalability, making it a powerful alternative to Adobe Experience Manager.

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Customers who embrace the future of content

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G2 Leader: Don't just take our word for it

Hundreds of businesses like yours have rated Sanity more highly than AEM on G2 for factors such as product direction, ease of setup and ease of use. The work we've put in to provide the best-in-class product adds up to flexible, cost efficient alternative to AEM, that allows you to spin up extraordinary experiences for your customers at pace and with ease.

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Where Sanity Excels Over AEM

Flexibility you've dreamt of

As a headless, API-first solution, Sanity allows you to tailor your content management system to your unique needs. Unlike AEM's rigid structures, Sanity enables you to define and modify content schemas using JavaScript, allowing for rapid adaptation to changing business requirements.

This flexibility empowers development teams and content creators to innovate without being constrained by a monolithic system - like AEM.

Reduced total cost of ownership

Sanity's composable architecture removes the need for specialized AEM expertise. Its use of widely adopted technologies like JavaScript allows you to leverage a broader talent pool, resulting in lower hiring and operational costs.

Additionally, the reduced engineering overhead due to Sanity's intuitive interface and flexible workflows can lead to significant savings over time.

Rapid onboarding & deployment

Sanity is designed for quick onboarding and deployment, allowing you to go live faster than with AEM, which often involves lengthy implementation timelines and complex migration processes.

Additionally, Sanity supports modern development practices, enabling you to iterate quickly and deploy updates without the cumbersome processes associated with AEM's legacy workflows.

"Success is about simplicity—for Tata, that’s the ability to manage content across brands in a unified seamless direct manner without having to jump through multiple hoops. And, to do it in a way so that a small team can manage big things.”
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How loveholidays cut the cost of launching new markets by 97%

See how AI-powered translation and automated content workflows unlocked ÂŁ300k cost savings and lightning-fast market expansion for travel company loveholidays:

  • AI translations are automated
  • Editors compare the original document to the translated one in one view
  • The translation architecture automatically adapts to schema changes
  • A new domain and market can be introduced without code
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Customer stories

World-class composable businesses innovate with Sanity

Tata Digital

Scaling a multi-brand e-commerce mobile app

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How Morning Brew powers a $50M+ media business with six engineers and Sanity

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Built to scale, not maintain

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First-hand experiences of switching from AEM to Sanity

Learn from engineering and product leaders who switched from Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) to Sanity. They share how they tackled AEM's challenges and used Sanity's flexibility and API-first approach to streamline content management, eliminate silos, and increase team efficiency.

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The results are in

Sanity is ranked #1 out of 85 CMSes on G2

G2.com, the world's largest marketplace for software, has rated Sanity as the #1 leader in the Headless CMS category, as measured by market presence and customer review ratings across categories such as product direction, quality of support and ease of use.

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Make content your competitive advantage

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