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Sanity vs ButterCMS

Looking for an alternative to ButterCMS? Meet Sanity.

Sanity's Content Operating System is a customizable alternative that treats content as data to power your digital business.

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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 customer review ratings and market presence

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Sanity has given us a clean slate and the opportunity to have our content platform match how the entire organization is thinking about content.

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Why choose Sanity over ButterCMS?

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See the Sanity difference

Customizable editing environment

Give your teams editing experiences as joyful as the content they create. With Sanity Studio, the editing experience can be tailored to match however your team works. Pre-loaded with visual editing tools that understand content reuse, and real-time collaboration features.

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Query anything and everything

Sanity’s open-source query language, GROQ makes it easy for developers to send the exact data for every front-end request—no more, no less—and even transform data into the right format on the fly, without altering the back end.

Centralize content and context

Maximize reuse and consistency with a single source of truth rich with context from all data sources. Build a content model that works for your team with limitless content types and nested objects that let you create nuanced relationships to express the connections across your content.

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Sanity rated #1 in CMS satisfaction by over 7,000 developers

With Sanity your team can dream bigger and move faster to scale, drive innovation, and accelerate customer acquisition. Let content power your growth engine.

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Don't just take our word for it

Very powerful and highly customizable headless CMS

Sanity has 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.

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Partner & Developer
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Finally a CMS that builds around you - not a CMS that you have to build around

Every CMS I've used before - Prismic, Contentful, Wordpress - requires me to structure my data in the way that their CMS wants. This can be quite limiting. Sanity comes out of the gate as a CMS as a Node package that is fully customizable end-to-end without having to deal with restructuring my data. Sanity provides an infinite product for us to fully tailor our content management experiences and focus on empowering those editors and of course, developers, to work in an incredibly convenient way.

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Peter Laxalt
Creative Partner

Why Sanity is the best headless CMS

In our opinion, having built over 30 headless CMS powered websites, Sanity is much better than Contentful, Prismic and others.

Rapid schema management, image handling, ease and pleasure of editing, flexibility, scalability, pricing.

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Platform Overview

Sanity's Content Operating System

To meet the ever-increasing demands of modern engagement, you need a modern content management system. Tackle channel proliferation, localization, personalization, and more with Sanity. Sanity is made up of three main components:

Sanity Studio

A content workspace you can tailor to match your team's needs—with all the visual tools they expect built-in. Real-time collaboration removes bottlenecks and empowers teams with custom access and workflows.

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Content Lake

A no-ops storage and distribution layer that syncs content and data for use by teams across your organization. Its precise query language enables reusing content anywhere.

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APIs

Sanity's APIs are designed for developers to thrive. They seamlessly integrate with existing CI/CD workflows, support programmatic schema coding, and offer real-time 2-way syncing.

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