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Payload vs Sanity

Facts about Payload CMS and Sanity, side by side. Each line comes from the tool's own pages, repository or npm, with its source and the day it was checked.

14 sources

Written by the Nextly team. Nextly is not in this comparison; it has a section of its own at the end.

01 · Side by side

Payload CMS and Sanity, fact by fact

Each line comes from Payload CMS's or Sanity's own pages, repository or npm. Where we have not checked something, we say so and link to their docs.

Payload CMS and Sanity, fact by fact
TopicPayload CMSSanity
LicencePayload CMSMITSource [1]SanityNot stated here. sanity.io/docs⁠ (opens in a new tab)
Studio licencePayload CMSNot stated here. payloadcms.com/docs⁠ (opens in a new tab)SanityMITSource [8]
Written inPayload CMSTypeScriptSource [1]SanityTypeScriptSource [8]
DatabasesPayload CMSAdapters for MongoDB, Postgres and SQLiteSource [2]SanityWhere content livesEvery plan lists a “hosted, real-time content database”Source [9]
APIsPayload CMSA Local API, REST and GraphQL are documentedSource [3] Source [4] Source [5]SanityAn HTTP API, queried with GROQ, and GraphQL APIs you deploy with the Sanity CLI, are documentedSource [13] Source [14]
Query languagePayload CMSNot stated here. payloadcms.com/docs⁠ (opens in a new tab)SanityGROQSource [11]
Managed hostingPayload CMSPayload Cloud: “deployment of new projects is currently paused”Source [6]SanityNot stated here. sanity.io/docs⁠ (opens in a new tab)
Studio hostingPayload CMSNot stated here. payloadcms.com/docs⁠ (opens in a new tab)SanitySanity hosting, or self-hosting on any platform with single-page app routingSource [10]
PricingPayload CMSNot stated here. payloadcms.com/docs⁠ (opens in a new tab)SanityA free plan with set limits; the Growth plan is priced per user per month, with usage-based overagesSource [9]
Current releasePayload CMS3.92.0 on npm latest; 4.0.0-beta.4 on betaSource [7]Sanity6.20.0 on npm latestSource [12]

02 · Sources

Where each line comes from

Payload CMS

  1. [1]github.com/payloadcms/payload (licence, language) (opens in a new tab)
  2. [2]payloadcms.com/docs/database/overview (opens in a new tab)
  3. [3]payloadcms.com/docs/local-api/overview (opens in a new tab)
  4. [4]payloadcms.com/docs/rest-api/overview (opens in a new tab)
  5. [5]payloadcms.com/docs/graphql/overview (opens in a new tab)
  6. [6]payloadcms.com/payload-has-joined-figma (opens in a new tab)
  7. [7]npmjs.com/package/payload (dist-tags) (opens in a new tab)

Sanity

  1. [8]github.com/sanity-io/sanity (licence, language) (opens in a new tab)
  2. [9]sanity.io/pricing (opens in a new tab)
  3. [10]sanity.io/docs/studio/deployment (opens in a new tab)
  4. [11]sanity.io/docs/content-lake/how-queries-work (opens in a new tab)
  5. [12]npmjs.com/package/sanity (dist-tags) (opens in a new tab)
  6. [13]sanity.io/docs/http-reference (opens in a new tab), checked
  7. [14]sanity.io/docs/content-lake/graphql (opens in a new tab), checked

03 · Method

How this page is written

Facts
Facts from their own pages or repository, each with its source and the day we checked.
No scores
No ticks, crosses or verdicts about other products.
Gaps
Where we have not checked something, we say so and link to their docs.

04 · A third option

Nextly

We make Nextly. It is not part of the comparison above.

Separate from the comparison

What it is
Nextly is an open-source content platform for Next.js.
Stack
TypeScript · Self-hosted · MIT · PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite · 0.0.2-alpha.71
Hosting
Self-hosted. MIT today, and no decision yet about paid offerings.
Status
Nextly is in alpha. APIs may change before 1.0. Pin exact versions in production.