Clean Next.js + Sanity app
Next.js template
Payload CMS alternative, fully managed
Looking at Payload CMS? Consider Sanity
If you're evaluating Payload CMS, Sanity is a fully managed AI Content Operating System: structured content, real-time collaboration, and enterprise-grade scalability, with hosting, scaling, and backups handled for you.
Trusted by 2000+ leading brands
Managed vs Self-hosted Infrastructure
The main difference between Sanity & Payload CMS
Sanity offers fully managed, cloud-native infrastructure with built-in real-time collaboration, reducing operational overhead. Payload CMS is self-hosted, so your team takes on hosting, scaling, and backups itself.
Compare Sanity & Payload CMS
Key feature comparison
Real-time collaboration
Multiple editors can work on the same content at once, with live updates and presence indicators, so teams see each other's changes as they happen instead of taking turns.
Collaborate in real-time →Managed infrastructure
Sanity offers managed infrastructure, eliminating Payload's need for extensive DevOps expertise by handling hosting, scaling, backups, and security, enabling teams to prioritize content creation and application development over infrastructure management.
Simplify your infrastructure →Seamless developer workflows
Built-in GraphQL and GROQ APIs, plus first-class integration with popular JavaScript frameworks, including long-standing, stable Next.js support. Build high-performance frontends by fetching exactly the data you need.
Accelerate your builds →Transparent pricing & ownership
Enterprise features like versioning, collaboration, and role-based permissions aren’t locked behind unpredictable pricing tiers. While Sanity hosts the infrastructure, you still maintain complete control of your data and schema definitions.
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Templates
Get started, faster
Tata: Scaling multi-brand e-commerce with composability
Tata Digital integrates 20+ brands to launch their SuperApp, Tata Neu, in 4 months with Sanity—overcoming the challenges of content diversity and siloed stacks.
Each brand in our multi-brand portfolio has unique content requirements. We required code-driven schemas—a one-size-fits-all approach wouldn't suffice.
Pavan Podila
Chief Software Architect - Tata
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.
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
Create content once, reuse everywhere
No matter the channel, region, or device—deliver on-brand, consistent, and up-to-date content by projecting every display from a uniform structured content layer.
Reuse, mix, and match content for different contexts, while keeping every touchpoint in sync with your structured content.
Customer stories
World-class composable businesses innovate with Sanity
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
