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GrowthBook vs Sanity

Open-source feature flags + experimentation — Warehouse Native
vs. Structured content platform — headless CMS with real-time + GROQ

GrowthBook website ↗Sanity website ↗

Pricing tiers

GrowthBook

Open Source (Self-Host)
MIT-licensed. Unlimited everything. Community support.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud — Starter (Free)
Up to 3 users. Unlimited flags + experiments. Warehouse Native included.
Free
Cloud — Pro
$40/user/month. Up to 50 users. Advanced stats, visual A/B editor, CUPED, sequential testing, bandits.
$40/mo
Cloud — Enterprise
Custom. Unlimited users, SSO/SAML, approval flows, data pipelines, exportable audit logs.
Custom
Self-Host Enterprise
Open Source + Enterprise license. Visual A/B editor, advanced metrics, SSO/SAML, approvals, training.
Custom
GrowthBook 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 oss on GrowthBook vs free on Sanity.

MetricGrowthBookSanity
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

GrowthBook · 15 features

  • Approval Flows — Require reviewer approval on flag changes. Enterprise.
  • Audit Logs — Full change history. Exportable on Enterprise.
  • Dimensions & Slicing — Break down experiment results by user dimensions.
  • Edge SDK Support — Cloudflare Workers, Lambda@Edge, Fastly, Akamai EdgeWorkers, Netlify Edge.
  • Experiments — A/B/n with CUPED variance reduction + sequential testing.
  • Feature Flags — Boolean + string + number + JSON flags with targeting.
  • Feature Reviews (PR-style) — Draft → review → approve flag changes.
  • Guardrail Metrics — Auto-monitor key metrics during experiments.
  • Metric Catalog — Define + reuse metrics across experiments.
  • Multi-Armed Bandits — Adaptive traffic allocation. Pro+.
  • Safe Rollouts — Guarded gradual rollouts with automatic rollback.
  • SSO / SAML — Enterprise SSO for cloud + self-host EE.
  • Sticky Bucketing — User stays in variant even after eligibility changes.
  • Visual A/B Test Editor — No-code DOM editor for web experiments. Pro+.
  • Warehouse Native — Connect your warehouse + run experiments against your events data.

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

KindGrowthBookSanity
CLI—Sanity CLI
SDKEdge SDKs (CF Workers / Lambda@Edge / Fastly / Akamai), growthbook-android, growthbook-flutter, growthbook-go, growthbook-java, growthbook-node, growthbook-php, growthbook-python, growthbook-ruby, growthbook-swift, sdk-javascript, sdk-react@sanity/client, sanity-python, @sanity/ui + next-sanity
RESTGrowthBook REST APIImage CDN, Sanity HTTP API
MCP—Sanity MCP
OTHERWebhooksGROQ Query Language, Webhooks
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