Sanity vs Statamic

GROQ and Portable Text enable union types, nested arrays, and custom input components, all first-class.

Blueprints define schemas in YAML, any field type, nested Replicators, and Bard give complete modeling flexibility.

Objects and Portable Text blocks are shared across document types and map directly to your design system.

Fieldsets allow reusable field groups across blueprints. Replicators handle block sets.

Custom validators work in schema definitions but require developer-written JavaScript, not a no-code option.

Blueprints support required, min/max, regex, and custom validation. Custom validators need PHP rules, developer setup.

Studio is highly customizable but needs developer configuration before non-technical editors are comfortable.

The Control Panel is one of the most carefully designed CMS interfaces. Bard and live preview are particularly polished.

The Presentation tool offers click-to-edit live previews but requires developer config to connect your frontend.

Live preview via Preview Target config. Not zero-config but straightforward for developers on Laravel projects.

Content Releases and versioning built in. Custom workflow states need Studio customization or third-party plugins.

Revisions, scheduling, and workflow states built in. Approval chains need the Collaboration addon on the Pro plan.

Imgix-powered CDN with hotspot and crop built in. Asset manager handles images, files, and custom sources.

Best-in-class for a Laravel CMS, Glide transforms, focal points, alt text, cropping and flexible storage (local, S3, Cloudflare R2, etc).

Presence indicators, cursor tracking, and simultaneous editing are core to Sanity Studio, not a bolt-on.

No real-time editing. Multi-user access supported but editors can overwrite without live conflict detection.

Role-based access per content type on paid plans. Field-level permissions need custom Studio configuration.

Roles and permissions per collection, nav, and assets. Granular for most teams, field-level access needs custom PHP.

Field-level localization via @sanity/language-filter, well maintained but requires schema wiring by a developer.

Multi-site and multi-locale are first-class. Each site has its own locale, content tree, and field-level translations.

Fallback logic must be implemented in GROQ queries or the frontend, no native CMS fallback configuration.

Locale fallback configurable in the sites config, Statamic falls back to default locale when translation is missing.

GROQ docs, REST reference, GraphQL playground, and schema-generated TypeScript types are all excellent.

REST API and GraphQL are well documented. No frontend SDKs are available.

Starters for Next.js, Astro, Nuxt, and SvelteKit. next-sanity is the most polished CMS integration in Next.js.

Primarily PHP/Laravel. No official Next.js or Astro starters.

Mutations API, Assets API, and GROQ support any programmatic workflow. Sanity CLI handles migrations and dataset ops.

Full REST API for content management and direct PHP/Eloquent server-side access. The Stache is programmable via Laravel.

Multiple datasets provide isolation but promotion needs manual scripting. Enterprise adds dataset aliases for hot-swap.

Git-based content means environments are code, branch, test, merge. No CMS env UI but flat files make diffs natural.

Edge CDN with Imgix image transforms. Fast globally but slightly behind Fastly-backed competitors on cold-start latency.

Self-hosted by default. Flat-file storage eliminates DB queries for most reads, speed depends on hosting.

Fully managed cloud with zero server config. Studio can be hosted anywhere or embedded in your app.

Requires PHP/Laravel hosting. More setup than SaaS CMS but simpler than Node.js + DB for teams already on Laravel.

Sanity Exchange has plugins for forms, SEO, and AI. Core integrations are solid but third-party quality varies.

Marketplace has addons for e-commerce, and SEO. Quality is high, stricter review process than npm packages.

One of the most active CMS communities, Slack is genuinely helpful, docs are thorough, and release cadence is high.

Tight-knit Discord community with an accessible core team. Fewer developers than some alternatives but high expertise density.