Sanity vs Strapi

Sanity

The captured pages show a graphical editorial calendar as a Studio plugin, but the pages state that plugin is deprecated and only works on the deprecated Studio v2; the newer editorial workflows surface documents stages, assignments and durable history alongside documents without a calendar view. Briefs appear only as a do-it-yourself schema in a modelling guide, and we found no public information on grouping content by campaign or topic, workload views per person, or recurring formats scheduled as series.

Strapi

The captured campaign-management page covers hosting and frameworks; we found no public information on an editorial calendar, briefs carrying goal and audience, or grouping of entries by campaign or topic. What the documentation does show is a content list view filterable by review stage and assignee, with customisable stages from draft to publication — status tracking rather than planning.

Sanity

Comments and tasks on documents, plan-dependent draft history and review statuses are evidenced on paid plans, with viewer seats free and the full audit trail, History API and custom roles gated to the Enterprise plan. The workflows surface documents stages, assignments and decisions routed to people, but we found no public information on configurable multi-step approvals, mandatory reviewers such as legal or brand, or freelancer access limited to assigned pieces.

Strapi

Multi-stage review workflows with named stage owners, role-based permissions on every stage transition, a required-stage gate that blocks publishing, a webhook on stage change, and audit logging of workflow, stage and assignee changes are all documented. We found no public information on inline suggested edits, external contributors limited to assigned pieces, or retention of the audit trail after the contract ends; audit logs and unlimited review workflows sit in the Enterprise plan while Growth keeps content history for fourteen days.

Sanity

Content is stored as structured JSON in the Content Lake with a documented content model, references between entries, unlimited content types and locales on all plans, queried through GROQ and GraphQL, and the AI features translate whole documents or single fields and create variants for A/B testing. A copy of subscriber data is provided in the vendor's standard database export format within thirty days after termination, but we found no public information on field-level locale fallback, named translation-service connectors, or documented re-import and migration tooling in both directions.

Strapi

A configurable content model with shared components, dynamic zones, six relation types and unlimited locales per content type, plus a command-line export of content, relations, assets and schemas as a self-service encrypted archive, with the terms guaranteeing self-service export in an industry-standard format during the subscription. We found no public information on field-level localisation with fallback languages, per-locale translation workflow status, or version history included in the export.

Sanity

The platform is API-first, delivering content to websites, apps and other channels through two documented query languages, with a live CDN, webhooks, a CLI, functions and an MCP server, and named support for a long list of frontend frameworks plus Vercel-hosted templates. We found no public information on preview environments, per-piece performance data pulled back from analytics, a status page or an API deprecation policy, and the uptime SLA is stated only for the Enterprise plan.

Strapi

Publicly documented REST and GraphQL APIs with an OpenAPI specification and a client library, webhooks firing on publish, change, release and stage-change events with populated payloads, a reviewed plugin marketplace, named frontend frameworks and GitHub deployment. We found no public information on published rate limits, a public status page, or per-piece performance data pulled back from analytics.

Sanity

The AI terms name OpenAI, Anthropic, Pinecone and Google as receiving customer input data and state that all configurations explicitly prohibit or disable training on data transferred to those providers, and the subscriber can stop using the AI services at any time — a training exclusion in the terms, which is where I want it. Retention is given only as data persisting for a few days in provider archives, the provider list may change without notice during development, and we found no public information on the processing location for AI features, an admin switch-off, EU AI Act marking of generated text, or output rights assigned specifically for generated content.

Strapi

The AI terms state that input is transmitted to unnamed third-party AI provider APIs whose policies apply, with the provider list relegated to the privacy policy; the customer keeps ownership of their content, while output is disclaimed as possibly non-copyrightable and delivered as-is with no warranty. Features are described, including natural-language content-type building, Figma and image import, MCP agents and a bring-your-own-key option, but we found no public information on whether customer content trains the models, an opt-out, prompt retention in days, EU processing location, or EU AI Act labelling of generated text.

Sanity

A privacy policy and a data processing addendum are offered with standard contractual clauses for transfers out of the EEA, and a Norwegian entity sits beside the US one in the privacy policy — but the agreement is governed by California law with exclusive venue in San Francisco, the site is hosted in the United States, and Google Cloud Platform and the US AI providers process customer data with no stated region. We found no public information on where content, assets and AI prompts are hosted, so EU hosting is not established, and the vendor may change AI partners without notice.

Strapi

The contracting entity is Strapi Inc., a Delaware corporation, under US California law, with primary storage stated in the United States and the EEA, a published third-party provider list in three categories, an Article 27 GDPR representative at the Paris address, and self-hosting plus cloud region selection as an EU path. We found no public information on a data processing agreement, named infrastructure, subprocessor locations and purposes, or where AI prompts are processed, and data residency is not confirmed on the vendor's own pages.

Sanity

The free and Growth plans are priced at fifteen dollars per seat per month with quotas and overage rates stated for API requests, bandwidth, assets, compute, AI credits and embeddings, add-on prices published, viewer seats free, and the plan unlocking SSO, the audit trail and the uptime SLA named, though that plan is custom-priced. Contract and renewal conditions — twelve-month terms, sixty-day non-renewal notice, annual fee increases with thirty days' notice, and monthly-only billing on self-serve plans — are public, but we found no published cost for exporting or leaving the platform.

Strapi

Community is free forever and Growth is $45 per month with three seats included, additional seats at $15 per month per seat, AI at 1,000 credits per month with additional credits at $1.50 per 100 and overages billed monthly in arrears, and single sign-on as a $150/month add-on at $50/month per seat, plus a tax note and a published seat definition. The Enterprise plan, where review workflows and audit logs begin, carries no public price, and we found no public information on contract term or renewal conditions.