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Grafana Cloud vs Sanity

Fully-managed observability — Prometheus + Loki + Tempo + Grafana
vs. Structured content platform — headless CMS with real-time + GROQ

Grafana Cloud website ↗Sanity website ↗

Pricing tiers

Grafana Cloud

Free
Always free. 10k metrics series + 50 GB logs/traces/profiles + 3 users + 14-day retention.
Free
Self-Hosted (OSS)
Apache 2.0 / AGPL. Run Grafana + Mimir + Loki + Tempo yourself.
$0 base (usage-based)
Pro
$19/mo platform fee + usage-based overages. 10k metrics series + 50 GB included. 13-month metrics retention.
$19/mo
Enterprise
$25,000/year minimum. Custom retention, premium support, BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) option.
$25000/mo
Grafana Cloud website ↗

Sanity

Free
20 seats. 2 public datasets. 10K documents. 250K API req + 1M CDN req/month. Content Agent + live preview + visual editing.
Free
Growth
$15 per seat/month. 50 seats. 2 datasets (public or private). 25K docs. Same API limits + pay-as-you-go overages.
$15/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SAML SSO, Media Library, dedicated support, 99.99% SLA.
Custom
Sanity website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Grafana Cloud vs free on Sanity.

MetricGrafana CloudSanity
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Grafana Cloud · 16 features

  • Alloy (OTel agent) — Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector with Grafana additions.
  • Application Platform — Infrastructure + k8s + frontend + cloud provider integrations.
  • Beyla (eBPF auto-instrumentation) — Zero-code auto-instrumentation via eBPF for any language.
  • Faro (RUM) — Frontend observability — traces, logs, Core Web Vitals.
  • Grafana in Azure Marketplace — "Azure Managed Grafana" — Azure-native deployment.
  • Grafana Incident — Incident management with Slack-native flows.
  • Grafana OnCall — On-call scheduling + incident response (powered by Amixr).
  • Grafana SLO — Service level objective tracking + error budget visualization.
  • Grafana (visualization) — Dashboards, variables, alerting, annotations over any datasource.
  • k6 (synthetic + load testing) — Load testing + synthetic monitoring. JavaScript-based scripts.
  • Loki (logs) — Prometheus-inspired log aggregation with LogQL.
  • Mimir (metrics) — Horizontally-scalable Prometheus-compatible TSDB.
  • Pyroscope (profiling) — Continuous profiling (CPU, memory, etc.).
  • Self-Host Option — Full OSS stack deployable in your infra.
  • Tempo (traces) — High-scale distributed tracing with TraceQL.
  • Unified Alerting — Grafana-native alerting across metrics, logs, traces.

Sanity · 16 features

  • Agent Context — Expose your content schema + docs to LLM agents.
  • Content Agent (AI) — AI assistant inside Studio for generation + translation.
  • Content History — Every change versioned. Rollback + diff.
  • Content Lake — Distributed real-time DB for structured content. Multi-region replicas.
  • Datasets — Logical content partitions (stage/prod/etc.). Easy cloning.
  • GROQ — Graph-Relational Object Queries — JSON-native query language.
  • Image CDN — Smart transforms (crop, format, quality) via URL params.
  • Internationalization — Multiple locales per document with native i18n plugins.
  • Live Previews — Draft previews with stega-encoded content.
  • Media Library (Ent) — Org-wide media with DAM features.
  • Portable Text — Structured rich text format (JSON). Portable across channels.
  • Real-Time Collaboration — Live presence + collaborative editing.
  • Sanity Studio — Open-source React editor — customize with your own components + workflow.
  • Scheduled Publishing — Schedule content to publish at a future date.
  • Visual Editing — Click-to-edit inline on your Next.js/etc. website.
  • Webhooks — Events on create/update/delete with GROQ filter.

Developer interfaces

KindGrafana CloudSanity
CLIGrafana Alloy (agent), grafana-cliSanity CLI
SDKFaro Web SDK (RUM)@sanity/client, sanity-python, @sanity/ui + next-sanity
RESTGrafana HTTP API, Loki Push APIImage CDN, Sanity HTTP API
MCP—Sanity MCP
OTHERPrometheus Remote Write, Tempo OTLPGROQ Query Language, Webhooks
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