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Real-time collaboration for frictionless content creation

Why choose Sanity over Strapi?

Sanity is a fully customizable, real-time content platform empowering developer-led teams with structured content, seamless collaboration, and a no-ops infrastructure that eliminates deployment complexity and speeds up time to market.

G2 grid showing Sanirt as the leader in the Headless CMS category.

Trusted by 2000+ leading brands

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

Real-time collaboration

The main difference between Sanity & Strapi

Sanity provides built-in real-time collaborative editing and instant content synchronization, enabling simultaneous teamwork, whereas Strapi relies on sequential editing workflows without native real-time co-editing capabilities.


Compare Sanity & Strapi

Key feature comparison

  • Real-time collaboration

    Sanity's real-time collaboration enables multiple editors to simultaneously modify content with live presence indicators and commenting, unlike Strapi, which lacks built-in real-time coediting, relying instead on sequential saves and versioning.

    Collaborate in real-time →
  • Content modeling

    Sanity enables developers to define deeply nested, flexible content schemas in code and stores rich text as structured Portable Text blocks, unlike Strapi's conventional WYSIWYG editor storing HTML, offering superior customizability.

    Model your content →
  • GROQ query language

    Sanity's GROQ query language empowers developers to flexibly filter, project, and join JSON content seamlessly in one request, surpassing Strapi's conventional RESTful and GraphQL APIs which require multiple fetches for complex queries. Though Sanity also offer these too should you prefer.

    Discover GROQ queries →
  • Customization

    Sanity empowers developers to craft fully customized Studio interfaces using React components, providing limitless flexibility to tailor the editing experience—an advantage over Strapi's more standardized, form-based admin UI approach.

    Customize with React →

Sanity vs. Strapi on G2

See what G2 reviewers say about the key differences.

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AI Readiness Guide

See where your CMS stands

Most AI pilots stall before delivering value. This 2-minute assessment reveals whether your content platform can actually support AI-powered operations or if the architecture is blocking you.

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AI Content Operations

AI workflows you can build today

Your AI is only as good as the content it operates on. These guides show how to build real AI workflows on structured content: working code, honest trade-offs, and a starter kit for each.


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

Senior Manager of E-commerce Platform Development

PUMA



⚡ Build fast. Edit live. Ship instantly.

From zero to production with Next.js starter

✅ Next.js 15 App Router for fast performance
✅ Live previews with real-time visual editing
✅ Drag-and-drop page builder with dynamic components


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.

Puma e-commerce website and mobile app interfaces across multiple screens.

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
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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.


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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Your content deserves better infrastructure