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Effortless content collaboration at scale

Why teams choose Sanity over Payload

Sanity is a managed Content Operating System empowering teams with structured content, real-time collaboration, and enterprise-grade scalability—built to accelerate content delivery across any digital platform.

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Trusted by 2000+ leading brands

  • Figma
  • Anthropic
  • Brex
  • Shopify
  • Linear
  • Skims
  • Unity
  • loveholiday
  • Expedia Group
  • Mejuri
  • Replit
  • Tecovas
  • PUMA
  • MoMA

Managed vs Self-hosted Infrastructure

The main difference between Sanity & Payload CMS

Sanity offers fully managed, cloud-native infrastructure with built-in real-time collaboration, reducing operational overhead and boosting team productivity—whereas Payload CMS is self-hosted and lacks native real-time collaboration features.


Compare Sanity & Payload CMS

Key feature comparison

  • Real-time collaboration

    Sanity enables multiple editors to simultaneously edit content with live updates and presence indicators, providing seamless real-time teamwork, whereas Payload currently has limited single-user editing without broad real-time capabilities.

    Collaborate in real-time →
  • Managed infrastructure

    Sanity offers managed infrastructure, eliminating Payload's need for extensive DevOps expertise by handling hosting, scaling, backups, and security, enabling teams to prioritize content creation and application development over infrastructure management.

    Simplify your infrastructure →
  • Seamless developer workflows

    Built-in GraphQL and GROQ APIs, plus first-class integration with popular JavaScript frameworks. Sanity has long offered stable Next.js support—no hype or half-finished “first-ever” claims. Build high-performance frontends by fetching exactly the data you need.

    Accelerate your builds →
  • Transparent pricing & ownership

    Enterprise features like versioning, collaboration, and role-based permissions aren’t locked behind unpredictable pricing tiers. While Sanity hosts the infrastructure, you still maintain complete control of your data and schema definitions.

    Take full control →


Tata: Scaling multi-brand e-commerce with composability

Tata Digital integrates 20+ brands to launch their SuperApp, Tata Neu, in 4 months with Sanity—overcoming the challenges of content diversity and siloed stacks.

Each brand in our multi-brand portfolio has unique content requirements. We required code-driven schemas—a one-size-fits-all approach wouldn't suffice.
Pavan Podila

Pavan Podila

Chief Software Architect - Tata


Trusted by leading Fortune 500 companies

Enterprise Ready

  • Scalable

    Expand effortlessly with our global cloud platform, designed for seamless scaling from prototypes to production-level solutions.

  • Performant

    Boost performance with our responsive APIs and collaborative tools, bolstered by a worldwide CDN and edge-caching for lightning-fast data retrieval.

  • Secure

    SOC 2, GDPR, & CCPA compliant platform. 24/7/365 monitoring. >99.9% uptime. Hosted on industry-leading infrastructure. Custom access control. SSO.

  • Data Integrity

    Preserve your data's fidelity with dedicated infrastructure, custom CDN domains, complete document histories, and access to every revision for a full year and beyond.


Sanity Studio

The editing workspace your whole team can use. Built the way your developers want it.

Sanity Studio is a fully customizable content workspace that ships with real-time multiplayer editing, inline comments and tasks, version history, and AI assistance out of the box. Editors get a workspace that's organized around how they actually work, not around what the CMS was willing to give them.

Screenshot of the Sanity Studio and all the elements that content editors can do easily.

Enterprise-grade infrastructure

Guaranteed performance and security at scale

Get the peace-of-mind of a robust, secure cloud-hosted infrastructure—that is operated and optimized continually by specialized teams. Trusted by top brands like Puma to handle peak traffic, Sanity outperformed cloud vendors with an exceptionally low error rate last Black Friday–Cyber Monday (0.00381% error rate against billions of requests).

Protecting your data is fundamental to everything we do at Sanity. We are fully compliant with SOC 2, GDPR, and CCPA.

  • High-frequency global CDN with intelligent caching
  • Intelligent image transformation with automatic cropping, compression, and conversion
  • Multi-tenant authoring with custom multi-team views
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Create content once, reuse everywhere

No matter the channel, region, or device—deliver on-brand, consistent, and up-to-date content by projecting every display from a uniform structured content layer.

Reuse, mix, and match content for different contexts, while keeping every touchpoint in sync with your structured content.

Puma e-commerce website and mobile app interfaces across multiple screens.


The results are in

Sanity is ranked #1 out of 85 CMSes on G2

G2.com, the world's largest marketplace for software, has rated Sanity as the #1 leader in the Headless CMS category, as measured by customer review ratings and market presence

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Your content deserves better infrastructure