Sanity
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The Content Operating System
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Features
47 features across 18 categories
AI(5)
AI-powered actions including document analysis, content creation, web searches, and GROQ queries
AI-powered assistance for content creation and editing
Usage-based AI credit system for Content Agent and AI actions
AI agent that knows your content - query, audit, and edit at scale through natural language. Turn hours of work into minutes.
API for managing content embeddings for AI applications
Automation(2)
Serverless compute for automating content workflows
Deploy serverless functions triggered on any content change. Use AI to automate, adapt, and transform content.
CMS(1)
The most flexible headless CMS - configurable with TypeScript, customizable with React. Real-time content workspace with visual editing capabilities.
Collaboration(2)
Built-in commenting and task management for team collaboration
Real-time collaborative editing with multiplayer presence
Compliance(3)
GDPR and CCPA compliance features
PCI DSS compliance certification
SOC 2 Type II compliance certification
Content Management(6)
Advanced features for managing multiple datasets
Comprehensive change history with 365-day retention and rollback capabilities
Track and map content sources
Reference content across multiple datasets
Ability to mutate and patch content through APIs
Rich text format for flexible content structuring
Data Management(2)
Clone datasets to the cloud
Swap datasets without downtime
Database(1)
Database optimized for content queries, authoring and delivery. Store content as JSON from any source, query with GROQ, serve fast from real-time content backend.
Delivery(3)
Configure custom domains for CDN delivery
Premium CDN for high-frequency content delivery
Global content delivery network for fast content serving
Developer Tools(5)
Create custom applications with dashboards, tables, grids, and complex apps that power exactly the workflows your team needs.
Integrations with continuous integration and deployment systems
GraphQL API support for content queries
Powerful query language for content retrieval and manipulation
Advanced request logging and monitoring
Editing(3)
Visual drag-and-drop editing without compromising on content reusability
Live preview functionality for content changes
Page-building and presentation capabilities
Integration(1)
GROQ-powered webhooks for triggering actions on content changes
Media Management(2)
Automated image optimization and transformation
Media management and browser plugin for organizing and managing digital assets
Monitoring(1)
Track content changes and events with activity feed
Publishing(2)
Manage content releases with rollback capabilities, preview overlapping releases, and review changes
Schedule content publication at specific times
Reliability(1)
Service level agreement guaranteeing uptime
Security(5)
Complete audit trail of content changes and events with History API
Automated backup and restore capabilities
Fine-grained custom access control and permissions
Create and manage private datasets for sensitive content
SAML-based single sign-on with third-party identity providers
Support(2)
Direct access to Sanity support engineers
Dedicated onboarding assistance for enterprise customers
Pricing
Free
- ✓Up to 20 user seats
- ✓2 permission roles
- ✓2 datasets (public only)
- ✓Unlimited content types and locales
- ✓Content Agent
- ✓Compute and Agent Actions
- ✓Hosted real-time content database
- ✓Live previews and visual editing tools
- ✓10k documents
- ✓2k unique attributes per dataset
- ✓1m API CDN requests per month
- ✓250k API requests per month
- ✓100GB assets
- ✓100GB bandwidth per month
- ✓2 GROQ-powered webhooks
- ✓1k live connections per dataset
- ✓15 min live retention
- ✓Free hosting
- ✓Visual editing
- ✓Real-time editing
- ✓Multiplayer presence
- ✓100 AI credits per month
- ✓500k function invocations per month
- ✓20k GB-seconds compute per month
- ✓Unlimited content types
- ✓Unlimited locales
- ✓GraphQL & GROQ support
- ✓Portable Text
- ✓Mutations & patching
- ✓Content Source Maps
- ✓SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA compliance
- ✓PCI DSS compliance
- ✓Community support
- ✓Open source editor built with React.js
- ✓Global CDN
- ✓Image pipeline
- ✓Pay with card
Growth
Popular- ✓Up to 50 user seats
- ✓5 permission roles
- ✓2 datasets (private or public)
- ✓Pay-as-you-go for higher usage
- ✓Comments and Tasks
- ✓Scheduled drafts
- ✓AI Assist
- ✓Compute and Agent Actions
- ✓25k documents
- ✓10k unique attributes per dataset
- ✓4 GROQ-powered webhooks
- ✓Private datasets
- ✓Embeddings Index API
- ✓100 AI credits per month
- ✓500k function invocations per month
- ✓20k GB-seconds compute per month
- ✓All Free plan features
- ✓Advanced dataset management
- ✓90 day change history
- ✓90 day activity feed
- ✓Community support
Enterprise
- ✓Custom number of user seats
- ✓Custom roles and access control
- ✓Custom number of datasets
- ✓Media Library add-on
- ✓Single sign-on with SAML
- ✓Dedicated support and uptime SLA
- ✓Onboarding program
- ✓Custom historical retention
- ✓Custom usage quota
- ✓Custom documents
- ✓Custom unique attributes per dataset
- ✓Custom API CDN requests
- ✓Custom API requests
- ✓Custom assets
- ✓Custom bandwidth
- ✓Custom datasets
- ✓Custom AI credits per month
- ✓500k function invocations per month
- ✓20k GB-seconds compute per month
- ✓Content releases
- ✓Rollback releases
- ✓Preview overlapping releases
- ✓365 day change history
- ✓Full audit trail & History API
- ✓Cloud cloning
- ✓Dataset hot swap
- ✓Cross-dataset references
- ✓Custom access control
- ✓Enterprise SSO
- ✓High Frequency CDN
- ✓Custom CDN domains
- ✓Advanced request logs
- ✓Content Operations Specialists
- ✓Invoicing
- ✓Organization-level billing
- ✓Annual payment option
- ✓All Growth plan features
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Integrations
42 known integrations