Head to head
Strapi vs Sanity
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
59/100 | 63/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #2 | #1 |
| Confidence | High confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 77 | 84 |
| AI Authority | 58 | 78 |
| Web Authority | 29 | 11 |
| Expert Assessment | 64 | 65 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | CMS Growth $45/month (3 seats included, +$15/month/seat); Cloud Starter $35/project/month · free tier: Community edition free forever under MIT licence: RBAC, REST & GraphQL API, unlimited entries and API calls, unlimited content-types/locales/roles/components, community support; 30-day free trial of Growth features on self-hosted projects, no credit card required | $15 per seat/month (Growth) · free tier: Free forever: up to 20 user seats plus free viewers, 2 public-only datasets, 10k documents, 1m API CDN requests/mo, 250k API requests/mo, 100GB assets and bandwidth, 1000 AI credits/mo, 500K function invocations/mo, community support only, no overage purchasing |
| Pricing model | Freemium + Subscription (self-hosted licence ladder and per-project managed hosting, with published usage overages) | Subscription (per seat) with usage-based overages |
| Best for | Engineering-led teams with Node.js/JavaScript competence that need a customizable multi-channel content API, want self-hosting or data residency, and can absorb major-version migration work — agencies and product teams especially, given the free tier plus $35–$90/month hosting. | Developer-led product and engineering teams on React/Next.js stacks who want the editing UI defined in code, plus freelancers and small agencies exploiting the 20-seat free tier with full AI features. |
| Avoid if | You are a marketing-led or non-technical team with no dedicated developer, need visual page composition or a site builder, require a guaranteed uptime SLA on a small budget, need native rate-limiting/API analytics out of the box, or cannot budget engineering time for breaking major-version migrations. | You are a marketing team without engineering support, need SSO/audit logs/SLA on a published budget, need many datasets or environments on a mid-market budget, have more than 50 editors, or require invoicing below Enterprise. |
| Markets | SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise, Agencies, Freelancers, Developers | SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise, Agencies, Freelancers |
| Founded | — | — |
| Headquarters | — | — |
A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.