Sanity vs Strapi

Sanity

There is a graphical editorial calendar plugin inside the Studio with schedule review, configurable author display and scheduled publishing, but it only runs on the deprecated Studio v2 and has itself been replaced by Scheduled Publishing. Briefs like the image-brief guide are schemas a team models itself, with status values such as draft, in review and approved; we found no evidence of grouping by campaign or channel, per-person workload or deadline views, or briefs carrying goal, audience and keywords as a product feature.

Strapi

The vendor's campaign-management page describes a headless content platform, and the closest evidence to planning is a Content Manager list view filterable by assignee and review stage plus per-entry draft and publish states. No editorial calendar, briefs carrying goal and audience, campaign grouping, due dates or workload views appear on the captured pages, so I cannot place it above the lowest anchors.

Sanity

Comments and tasks ship on all paid plans with mentions and role permissions, Editorial Workflows add configurable stages, assignments and durable history beside the documents being edited, a complete change history is retained per plan, and a full audit trail with a History API and custom roles is gated to Enterprise. We found no public information on inline suggested edits, guest or freelancer access limited to assigned pieces, or scheduled publishing that waits for approval — the scheduling plugin discards newer drafts at publish time rather than holding for a reviewer.

Strapi

Configurable multi-stage review workflows per content type — the vendor pitches an 8-step legal review or a 3-step editorial process — with role-gated stage transitions, stage owners and assignees, a required-stage gate that blocks publishing, and automatic audit-log capture of workflow, stage and assignee changes. It falls short of the top band because review workflows and audit logs are Enterprise-only (Community and Growth show dashes in the pricing table), and we found no public information on inline suggested edits, external contributors limited to assigned pieces, or an exportable trail preserving the exact version each approver released.

Sanity

Content is stored as structured JSON in the Content Lake with a configurable model, relationships between entries, unlimited content types and locales on every plan, AI translation of whole documents or single fields with formatting retained, and multi-variant creation. We found no public information on field-level localisation with fallback languages, translation workflows with status per locale, or a documented self-service export — the only export on record is the copy in Sanity's standard database export format within thirty days after termination.

Strapi

A configurable no-code content model with components, dynamic zones, custom fields and six relation types, internationalisation switchable per content type with unlimited locales on all plans, and a documented self-service export command covering content, relations, assets, schemas and configuration in archive, directory or JSON-lines form. We found no public information on field-level localisation with fallback languages, translation workflows with status per locale, or named translation-service connectors, which is what the higher anchors demand.

Sanity

An API-first architecture with GROQ and GraphQL, a Live CDN, webhooks, a CLI and named integrations with fourteen front-end frameworks plus Vercel-hosted templates takes content to websites, apps and other channels from one place, well past basic publishing. The captured pages show plan-level request and bandwidth quotas rather than published API rate limits, and we found no public information on a public status page, a maintained connector directory for marketing-stack tools, or per-piece performance data pulled back from analytics.

Strapi

Auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs with an OpenAPI specification and a client library, webhooks firing on publish, update, unpublish and delete with fully populated payloads plus HMAC-signature guidance, a reviewed plugin marketplace, and connectors for nine frontends from React to Flutter. We found no public information on published API rate limits, a public status page, or per-piece performance data pulled back from analytics, so the delivery story stops short of the top band.

Sanity

AI Assist drafts long-form text from a title, translates documents or fields, generates images and builds variants, and the AI terms state that all configurations explicitly prohibit or disable training on input data, with OpenAI, Anthropic, Pinecone and Google named as the providers receiving it. Those same terms route input data to those US providers, keep it in archives or caches for "a few days", allow technology-partner changes without notice, reserve the right to change credit consumption rates immediately, and are silent on EU processing, EU AI Act marking of generated text and explicit assignment of output rights to the customer.

Strapi

The supplementary AI terms are candid that input is transmitted to third-party AI provider APIs to generate output, that those providers' policies apply, and that output might not be copyrightable or unique — and the features themselves are described, with credits, usage notifications and a bring-your-own-key topic. But we found no public information naming the AI providers, stating that customer content does not train their models, on prompt and output retention in days, on EU processing for AI features, or on EU AI Act labelling, and the terms are amendable by website posting with no warranty or SLA for the AI integration.

Sanity

A data processing addendum and a privacy policy under Norwegian law with standard contractual clauses for transfers are offered, which clears the floor. But the agreement is governed by California law with exclusive venue in San Francisco, the site is hosted in the United States, the Google Cloud Platform region is not stated, and the AI terms name US providers receiving customer input data; we found no public information establishing EU hosting for content or an AI processing location.

Strapi

The contracting entity is a US Delaware corporation under California law, with primary storage stated as the United States and the EEA, which caps the score. On the other side of the ledger the privacy policy publishes third-party provider categories and names an Article 27 GDPR representative in Paris, and self-hosting is offered explicitly for control over data residency; ownership, a data processing agreement and named hosting infrastructure for cloud content have no public information on the captured pages.

Sanity

Free at $0 and Growth at $15 per seat per month are published with billing period and the main limits, and overages are priced line by line — $0.30 per 1GB bandwidth, $0.50 per 1GB assets, $1 per 25K API requests — alongside add-ons at $299 and $999 per month and AI credits at $0.05 per credit with per-action costs; Enterprise is named as the plan that unlocks SSO, the audit trail and the uptime SLA, and contract, renewal and increase conditions are stated in the terms. Full annual cost stays a sales conversation for anyone needing those Enterprise gates, since annual payment exists only on the custom-priced Enterprise plan.

Strapi

A free Community plan and Growth at $45 per month including three seats with additional seats at $15/month/seat, AI credits priced at +$1.50 per 100 credits with overages billed monthly in arrears, an SSO add-on at $150 /month (+$50/month/seat), unlimited content types, locales and roles across plans, and the plan gating review workflows and audit logs named as Enterprise. Enterprise pricing itself is on request, and we found no public information on contract term or renewal conditions, so a full annual cost is not computable for larger teams.