cms
Sanity pricing & features
Structured content platform — headless CMS with real-time + GROQ
Structured content platform with real-time sync, customizable Studio (React), GROQ query language, Content Lake, image CDN with transforms, AI Content Agent.
Data sourced from vendor documentation · Last updated May 2026
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 20 seats. 2 public datasets. 10K documents. 250K API req + 1M CDN req/month. Content Agent + live preview + visual editing. |
| Growth | $15/mo | $15 per seat/month. 50 seats. 2 datasets (public or private). 25K docs. Same API limits + pay-as-you-go overages. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom. SAML SSO, Media Library, dedicated support, 99.99% SLA. |
Limits
| Tier | Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | billing model | Per seat (Growth) + usage-based overages | Pricing model |
| — | overage api req | $1 per 100k extra requests | API overage |
| — | overage bandwidth | Included in CDN; typically negligible | Bandwidth |
| — | overage documents | ~$0.01 per additional document | Document overage |
| — | portable text | Rich text format (JSON, serializable) | Rich text format |
| — | query language | GROQ (Sanity-designed) + GraphQL experimental | Query languages |
| — | real time sync | Default — collaborators see each other's edits live | Realtime |
Features
- Agent Context — Expose your content schema + docs to LLM agents.
- Content Agent (AI) — AI assistant inside Studio for generation + translation. · docs
- Content History — Every change versioned. Rollback + diff.
- Content Lake — Distributed real-time DB for structured content. Multi-region replicas. · docs
- Datasets — Logical content partitions (stage/prod/etc.). Easy cloning.
- GROQ — Graph-Relational Object Queries — JSON-native query language. · docs
- Image CDN — Smart transforms (crop, format, quality) via URL params. · docs
- 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. · docs
- Real-Time Collaboration — Live presence + collaborative editing.
- Sanity Studio — Open-source React editor — customize with your own components + workflow. · docs
- Scheduled Publishing — Schedule content to publish at a future date.
- Visual Editing — Click-to-edit inline on your Next.js/etc. website. · docs
- Webhooks — Events on create/update/delete with GROQ filter.
Developer interfaces
| Slug | Name | Kind | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| sdk-node | @sanity/client | sdk | 7.x |
| sdk-react | @sanity/ui + next-sanity | sdk | 3.x |
| groq | GROQ Query Language | other | — |
| image-cdn | Image CDN | rest | — |
| cli | Sanity CLI | cli | 3.x |
| rest-api | Sanity HTTP API | rest | v2024 |
| mcp | Sanity MCP | mcp | — |
| webhooks | Webhooks | other | — |
| sdk-python | sanity-python | sdk | 0.x |
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