Everything *[NYC] 2026: see what we announced. →
Skip to content

Unlock real-time collaborative content workflows

Why choose Sanity over Hygraph?

Sanity is a fully customizable, developer-friendly content platform that treats content as structured data. Empower your team to build complex, scalable digital experiences with ultimate flexibility and tailored workflows.

G2 grid showing Sanity as the market leader for a balance of satisfaction and presence.

Trusted by 2000+ leading brands

  • Figma
  • Anthropic
  • Brex
  • Shopify
  • Linear
  • Skims
  • Unity
  • loveholiday
  • Expedia Group
  • Mejuri
  • Replit
  • Tecovas
  • PUMA
  • MoMA

Customizable real-time collaboration

The main difference between Sanity & Hygraph

Sanity's key advantage over Hygraph is its fully customizable content studio, enabling real-time collaborative editing with live updates—allowing multiple editors simultaneous access and developers complete flexibility to tailor workflows and interfaces.


Compare Sanity & Hygraph

Key feature comparison

  • Real-time collaborative editing

    Sanity offers real-time collaborative editing, enabling multiple users to simultaneously edit content, providing instant synchronization and live presence indicators, a powerful collaboration capability not available in Hygraph.

    Collaborate in real-time →
  • Schema as code

    Sanity's schema-as-code lets developers define content structures directly in JavaScript or TypeScript, offering greater flexibility and version control compared to Hygraph's visual schema builder, which restricts modeling to predefined UI options.

    Discover schema as code →
  • Customizable editing interface

    Sanity's customizable editing interface empowers organizations to tailor the authoring environment precisely to match their unique workflows, offering flexibility and control that Hygraph's ready-made, less adaptable user interface can't match.

    Personalize your workspace →
  • Content Lake

    Sanity's Content Lake centralizes structured content in a scalable cloud repository, empowering developers with real-time updates and flexible querying capabilities beyond the static, schema-constrained content federation approach typically offered by Hygraph.

    Discover Content Lake →

Powering PUMA: multi-channel campaigns unified by Sanity

Sanity enabled PUMA to create a single source of truth for content so they can move faster, create innovative, multi-channel, digital campaigns, and achieve a holistic brand across markets.

PUMA
Sanity is the connective tissue for all of our digital properties, syncing content for all of PUMA's global markets.
Bettina Donmez

Bettina Donmez

Former PUMA eCommerce Center of Excellence Lead

PUMA



What G2 reviewers say about Sanity vs. Hygraph

See what G2 reviewers say about the key differences.

a comparison of sanity and hygraph shows the percentage of customization and content authoring satisfaction


Trusted by leading Fortune 500 companies

Enterprise Ready

  • Scalable

    Expand effortlessly with our global cloud platform, designed for seamless scaling from prototypes to production-level solutions.

  • Performant

    Boost performance with our responsive APIs and collaborative tools, bolstered by a worldwide CDN and edge-caching for lightning-fast data retrieval.

  • Secure

    SOC 2, GDPR, & CCPA compliant platform. 24/7/365 monitoring. >99.9% uptime. Hosted on industry-leading infrastructure. Custom access control. SSO.

  • Data Integrity

    Preserve your data's fidelity with dedicated infrastructure, custom CDN domains, complete document histories, and access to every revision for a full year and beyond.


Sanity Studio

The editing workspace your whole team can use. Built the way your developers want it.

Sanity Studio is a fully customizable content workspace that ships with real-time multiplayer editing, inline comments and tasks, version history, and AI assistance out of the box. Editors get a workspace that's organized around how they actually work, not around what the CMS was willing to give them.

Screenshot of the Sanity Studio and all the elements that content editors can do easily.

Enterprise-grade infrastructure

Guaranteed performance and security at scale

Get the peace-of-mind of a robust, secure cloud-hosted infrastructure—that is operated and optimized continually by specialized teams. Trusted by top brands like Puma to handle peak traffic, Sanity outperformed cloud vendors with an exceptionally low error rate last Black Friday–Cyber Monday (0.00381% error rate against billions of requests).

Protecting your data is fundamental to everything we do at Sanity. We are fully compliant with SOC 2, GDPR, and CCPA.

  • High-frequency global CDN with intelligent caching
  • Intelligent image transformation with automatic cropping, compression, and conversion
  • Multi-tenant authoring with custom multi-team views
A circular collage of various images, transitioning from red tones on the left to blue tones on the right, against a black background.

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 customer review ratings and market presence

G2 Winter 2026 Grid chart with 'Leader' designation, showing multiple companies plotted and a large G2 logo.

Your content deserves better infrastructure