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Why choose Sanity over Hygraph?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Powering PUMA: multi-channel campaigns unified by Sanity

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

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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.

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The results are in

Sanity is ranked #1 out of 85 CMSes on G2

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