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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Contentful

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AContentful is a cloud based CMS solution that provides the ability to manage content across multiple platforms.The editing interface allows for managing content interactively and provides developers the ability to deliver the content with the programming language and template framework of their choice.

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    Sanity

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ASanity from the company of the same name in San Francisco is a platform for structured content that comes with an open-source editing environment called Sanity Studio that users can customize with JavaScript and a real-time hosted data store.

    $15

    per month per seat

    Pricing
    ContentfulSanity
    Editions & Modules
    Lite
    $300
    per month
    Community
    Free
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Free
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    Growth
    $15
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    ContentfulSanity
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Sanity.io
    Chose Sanity
    - There is no fear of hitting a limit and suddenly having to start paying 500$ per month when you have been using it for free for a while
    - You don't have to worry about infrastructure because datasets are available as a service
    - With an open-source UI based on React, you don't …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    ContentfulSanity
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Contentful and Sanity
    Feature
    Contentful
    7.3
    8 Ratings
    10% below category average
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    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Contentful and Sanity
    Feature
    Contentful
    8.0
    9 Ratings
    5% above category average
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    API8.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language7.76 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Contentful and Sanity
    Feature
    Contentful
    7.7
    10 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Sanity
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    WYSIWYG editor7.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates7.64 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow8.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Contentful and Sanity
    Feature
    Contentful
    8.0
    9 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Sanity
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    Content taxonomy8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management7.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ContentfulSanity
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    8.3
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    User Testimonials
    ContentfulSanity
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    Contentful
    Contentful is well suited for folks who want a simple, clean, easy-to-use interface for a JAVASCRIPT website. If you do not want a javascript website you should look [elsewhere].
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    Sanity.io
    Customization and creation of CMS are almost limitless. Building and customizing the platform is facilitated by a wealth of documentation and video content. As opposed to graphql and traversing rest APIs, Sanity's query language is a breath of fresh air. It really helps you if you want something lightweight but at the same time you want it to be scalable then I think Sanity is your best option.
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    Pros
    Contentful
    • Clean, modern interface (not clunky and outdated, like WordPress)
    • High degree of flexibility (I can structure data any way my clients need)
    • Enables headless frontend (i.e. I can build any frontend I want without having to change my CMS)
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    Sanity.io
    • GraphQL support.
    • Nice Intuitive Web interface to write blogs.
    • They provide us a subdomain on their cloud so that we can start testing our things directly on the web.
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    Cons
    Contentful
    • The new Contentful "branches" feature looked promising (it appears to mirror a git-like repository) but it requires the CLI, which isn't necessarily practical for teams that aren't current CLI users. It would be nice if the management of this feature were available via the UI (without that it causes more confusion than anything).
    • The Contentful data modeling method makes for a bit of an awkward SDK developer experience in some strongly typed languages like Java. Most things that you might need can be accomplished, but it feels like the experience could be smoother.
    • It would be nice if there were a way to migrate data between spaces (e.g. from your staging space to production).
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    Sanity.io
    • CMS can be a bit hard to work with for the new users
    • Documentation should include more examples of the output and code along with the output.
    • Custom inputs are quite difficult to start and work with.
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    Contentful
    Easy to use and much more organized as a single platform versus multi. The layout is clean and easy to read and we don’t have to worry about certain users safe guarding data or content then losing it when they leave the company. It’s a one stop shop for imagery
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    Sanity.io
    Pricing is better than graph cms. and easy to use the intuitive interface to write my blog.
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    Return on Investment
    Contentful
    • There was no negative impact as such.
    • Positive impact is increase in sales.
    • More work is delivered due to reusability and other features within a time and less manual effort.
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    Sanity.io
    • It helped us to create an excellent developer experience and good experience for their editors as well
    • Sanity has created an incredible platform that effortlessly balances good DX for content modeling and good UI for content editing.
    • Pay-as-you-go hybrid service, no need to worry about reaching a cap and having to suddenly pay $500
    Incentivized
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