Statamic vs Sanity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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