SavvyCal vs Sanity
The indie-darling scheduling tool — polished UX, overlay-first design
vs. Structured content platform — headless CMS with real-time + GROQ
Pricing tiers
SavvyCal
Basic
$12/user/mo (or $120/year). Unlimited event types, round-robin, single signatures.
$12/mo
Premium
$20/user/mo (or $200/year). Custom branding, custom domain, ranked/round-robin routing, webhooks.
$20/mo
Lifetime
$199 one-time. Full Premium forever (for early supporters / occasional offers).
$199/mo
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
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing basic on SavvyCal vs free on Sanity.
| Metric | SavvyCal | Sanity |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
SavvyCal · 15 features
- Automations — Reminders + follow-ups.
- Buffer Time — Before/after meetings.
- Calendar Overlay — See recipient cal overlayed on yours.
- Collective — Find time that works for all hosts.
- Collective Round-Robin — Best of both.
- Custom Branding — Logo + colors.
- Custom Domain — cal.yourbrand.com.
- Embed Widget — Inline + popup for websites.
- Group Events — Many attendees → 1 host.
- One-on-One — Standard solo meetings.
- Paid Bookings — Stripe integration.
- Ranked Availability — Suggest preferred times.
- Round-Robin — Distribute across hosts.
- Teams — Shared scheduling for teams.
- Webhooks — Real-time events (Premium).
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
| Kind | SavvyCal | Sanity |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | — | Sanity CLI |
| SDK | — | @sanity/client, sanity-python, @sanity/ui + next-sanity |
| REST | SavvyCal API | Image CDN, Sanity HTTP API |
| MCP | — | Sanity MCP |
| OTHER | Embed + Popup Widget, SavvyCal Dashboard, SavvyCal Webhooks | GROQ Query Language, Webhooks |
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