Sanity

Headless CMS with a real-time collaborative editing studio and flexible content modeling

Visit Website Free tier (3 users), Growth from $15/user/mo

Sanity is a headless CMS that separates content management from presentation, allowing you to deliver content to any frontend via API. Its open-source editing studio (Sanity Studio) is fully customizable with React components. Solo founders benefit from the generous free tier, but should be aware that costs can increase as traffic and team size grow.

What's good

  • Generous free tier with 100K API requests/mo
  • Highly customizable content studio built with React
  • Real-time collaboration and structured content with GROQ query language

Watch out for

  • Steeper learning curve than traditional CMS platforms
  • Costs scale with API usage and number of users

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