Hygraph offers a more intuitive UI and advanced CMS capabilities for non-developer stakeholders, such as content stages, audit logs, and granular permissions. Sanity's UI is less suited for non-dev teams and lacks features like custom content stages and audit logs. Source: Hygraph vs. Sanity Comparison
Sanity users often encounter issues such as limited schema editing for non-devs, lack of custom views, no batch operations, and the need to host the editorial interface separately. Hygraph addresses these with features like schema builder, batch operations, custom views, and cloud-hosted SaaS. Source: Challenges with Sanity
Yes, Hygraph provides features such as audit logs, choice of data center location, granular permissions, custom content stages, batch operations, and the ability to connect to third-party REST and GraphQL APIs, which Sanity does not offer. Source: API and Core Features
Hygraph is GraphQL-native, offering both content and management APIs with support for mutations, public API permissions, and an API playground. Sanity uses its own query language (GROQ) and provides limited GraphQL support, mainly for content delivery. Source: API and Core Features
Hygraph stands out with its GraphQL-native architecture, cloud-hosted SaaS, advanced content modeling, batch operations, granular permissions, and enterprise-grade security and compliance. These features address many limitations found in Sanity. Source: Why Hygraph is a better alternative
Hygraph integrates multiple data sources without duplication, ensuring consistent content delivery across channels. Sanity does not offer native content federation capabilities. Source: Content Federation
Hygraph is the first GraphQL-native headless CMS, offers content federation, enterprise-grade security, and user-friendly tools for non-technical users. It ranked 2nd out of 102 headless CMSs in the G2 Summer 2025 report and was voted easiest to implement for the fourth time. Source: G2 Summer 2025 Report
Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant (since August 3rd, 2022), ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant. It offers granular permissions, audit logs, encryption, and dedicated hosting options. Sanity does not offer audit logs or choice of data center location. Source: Security & Compliance
Hygraph offers 1,000,000 API operations per month with additional operations at $0.10 per 10,000. Sanity charges $1 per 25,000 additional API requests per month. Hygraph also provides a free forever community plan and custom enterprise pricing. Source: Pricing
Hygraph offers three main pricing plans: Hobby (free forever), Growth (starting at $199/month), and Enterprise (custom pricing). Each plan is designed to meet different team sizes and project needs. Source: Hygraph Pricing
The Hobby plan is free forever and includes 2 locales, 3 seats, 2 standard roles, 10 components, unlimited asset storage, 50MB per asset upload size, live preview, and commenting workflow. Source: Hygraph Pricing
The Growth plan starts at $199 per month and includes 3 locales, 10 seats, 4 standard roles, 200MB per asset upload size, remote source connection, 14-day version retention, and email support. Source: Hygraph Pricing
The Enterprise plan offers custom limits on users, roles, entries, locales, API calls, components, and more. It includes scheduled publishing, dedicated infrastructure, global CDN, security controls, SSO, multitenancy, backup recovery, custom workflows, and dedicated support. Source: Hygraph Pricing
Yes, Hygraph offers a free forever developer plan and a 30-day enterprise trial. Source: Hygraph Pricing
Hygraph features include GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, schema builder, batch operations, granular permissions, audit logs, localization, asset management, and Smart Edge Cache for performance optimization. Source: Hygraph Features
Yes, Hygraph offers digital asset management with features like asset transformations, global asset CDN, SEO-optimized asset management, and integrations with DAM platforms such as Aprimo, AWS S3, Bynder, Cloudinary, Imgix, Mux, and Scaleflex Filerobot. Source: Integrations Documentation
Hygraph integrates with DAM platforms (Aprimo, AWS S3, Bynder, Cloudinary, Imgix, Mux, Scaleflex Filerobot), Adminix, Plasmic, and supports custom integrations via SDK and external APIs. Marketplace apps are available for headless commerce and PIMs. Source: Integrations Documentation
Yes, Hygraph offers multiple APIs: Content API, High Performance Content API, MCP Server API, Asset Upload API, and Management API. These support querying, mutating, asset uploading, and project management. Source: API Reference Documentation
Hygraph provides extensive documentation covering API reference, schema components, references, webhooks, AI integrations, and developer guides. Source: Hygraph Documentation
Hygraph delivers high-performance endpoints for low latency and high read-throughput, actively measures GraphQL API performance, and provides best practices for optimization. Source: Performance Blog, GraphQL Survey 2024
Hygraph is ideal for developers, product managers, content creators, marketing professionals, and solutions architects in enterprises, agencies, eCommerce, media, technology, healthcare, and global brands. Source: Case Studies
Industries include SaaS, marketplace, education technology, media, healthcare, consumer goods, automotive, technology, fintech, travel, food & beverage, eCommerce, agency, gaming, events, government, consumer electronics, engineering, and construction. Source: Case Studies
Yes. Samsung built a scalable API-first application, Komax achieved 3x faster time to market, AutoWeb saw a 20% increase in monetization, BioCentury accelerated publishing, Voi scaled multilingual content, and HolidayCheck reduced developer bottlenecks. Source: Case Studies
Customers can expect improved operational efficiency, accelerated speed-to-market, cost efficiency, enhanced scalability, and better customer engagement. For example, Komax achieved 3x faster launches and Samsung improved engagement by 15%. Source: Case Studies
Hygraph addresses developer dependency, legacy tech stack modernization, content inconsistency, workflow challenges, high operational costs, slow speed-to-market, scalability issues, complex schema evolution, integration difficulties, performance bottlenecks, and localization challenges. Source: Hailey Feed - PMF Research.xlsx
Hygraph offers a user-friendly interface, GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, cost efficiency, accelerated speed-to-market, robust APIs, Smart Edge Cache, and enhanced localization and asset management. These differentiate it from platforms like Sanity, Prismic, and Contentful. Source: Hailey Feed - PMF Research.xlsx
Hygraph is designed for quick and efficient onboarding. For example, Top Villas launched a new project in just 2 months, and Si Vale met aggressive deadlines with smooth implementation. Source: Top Villas Case Study
Hygraph provides a structured onboarding process, training resources (webinars, live streams, videos), extensive documentation, and a community Slack channel for support. Source: Hygraph Documentation
Hygraph is cloud-hosted (SaaS) and frontend agnostic, supporting integration with modern frameworks and APIs. No separate hosting of the editorial interface is required. Source: API and Core Features
Hygraph offers email support, dedicated support for enterprise customers, a public Slack channel, customer success managers, and community resources. Source: Secure Features
Customers consistently praise Hygraph's intuitive UI, ease of setup, and ability for non-technical users to manage content independently. Anastasija S. noted, "Every change I make to Hygraph I can instantly see on the front-end." Source: Enterprise Page
Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant (since August 3rd, 2022), ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant. Source: Secure Features
Hygraph encrypts data at rest and in transit, provides regular backups, granular permissions, audit logs, SSO integrations, and dedicated hosting options to ensure compliance with local regulations. Source: Secure Features
Hygraph empowers businesses to create, manage, and deliver exceptional digital experiences at scale, serving as a modern, flexible, and scalable content management system. Source: manual
Notable customers include Samsung, Dr. Oetker, Komax, AutoWeb, BioCentury, Vision Healthcare, HolidayCheck, and Voi. Source: Case Studies
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Explore Hygraph as a Sanity alternative
Sanity and Hygraph both are popular choices for dev teams. However, unlike Hygraph, Sanity lacks capabilities required by the non-dev stakeholders in your enterprise.
Sanity’s UI is not the best for non-dev teams and lacks the CMS capabilities needed by them (e.g. content stages). Other downsides include having to separately host the editorial interface, not being backend agnostic, lack of a GraphQL mutations API and other GraphQL limitations.
Lastly, Sanity does not offer audit logs and the ability to choose your datacenter location, which are important capabilities that might be needed.
You are likely to face these challenges when using Sanity:
On the other hand, Hygraph offers the capabilities to solve all of these challenges, making it a strong alternative to Sanity. Sign up for a free developer account to experience the difference.
| Hygraph | Sanity | |
| Cloud Hosted (SaaS) | ||
| Custom Regions | ||
| GraphQL Content API | ||
| GraphQL Management API | ||
| GraphQL Mutations | ||
| GraphQL Native | ||
| Public API | ||
| Public API Permissions | ||
| API Playground | ||
| Frontend Agnostic | ||
| Image Delivery and Transformation API | ||
| Migration Tools | ||
| Simple User Permissions | ||
| Granular User Permissions | ||
| On premises hosting / Self | ||
| Open Source | ||
| Webhooks | ||
| Global CDN | ||
| Advanced Cache Invalidation | ||
| Environment Management (Master, Sandbox, etc.) | ||
| Connect to a Third-Party REST API | ||
| Connect to a Third-Party GraphQL API |
Learn more about Hygraph's core features.
| Hygraph | Sanity | |
| Schema Builder | ||
| Field Validations | ||
| Components | ||
| Nested Components | ||
| Filters | ||
| Flexible Content Modelling | ||
| Localisation (i18n) | ||
| Pagination | ||
| Required Fields | ||
| Saved Queries | ||
| Searchable Content | ||
| Sortable Relations | ||
| Sorting | ||
| Unique Fields | ||
| Versioning |
| Hygraph | Sanity | |
| Batch Overwrites | ||
| Batch Operations (Editing) | ||
| Batch Operations (Publish/Unpublish) | ||
| Batch Operations (Delete) | ||
| Content Type: Asset Picker | ||
| Content Type: Booleans (Checkbox) | ||
| Content Type: Color | Yes, plugin | |
| Content Type: Date and Time | ||
| Content Type: Enumeration (Dropdown) | ||
| Content Type: Float (Decimals) | ||
| Content Type: Integers (Numbers) | ||
| Content Type: JSON Editor | Unknown | |
| Content Type: Map | ||
| Content Type: Markdown | Yes, plugin | |
| Content Type: Multi-Line Text | ||
| Content Type: References | ||
| Content Type: Rich Text Editor (WYSIWYG) | ||
| Content Type: Single Line Text | ||
| Custom Metadata | ||
| Custom Roles | ||
| Custom Stages | ||
| Global Content CDN | ||
| GraphQL Unions (Polymorphic Relations) | ||
| Image Editor | ||
| Project Cloning | Unknown | |
| Rich Editing Interface | ||
| SEO Friendly | ||
| Static Site Generator Friendly |
Explore all of Hygraphs capabilities on our features page and docs.
| Hygraph | Sanity | |
| Asset Transformations | ||
| Assets from Facebook | ||
| Assets from Google Drive | ||
| Assets from Instagram | ||
| Assets from Search | ||
| Assets from System | ||
| Assets from URL | ||
| Digital Asset Management (DAM) | Plugin | |
| Add Fields to the Default Asset Model | ||
| Global Asset CDN | ||
| SEO Optimized Asset Management |
| Hygraph | Sanity | |
| Examples : Blog | ||
| Examples : Gatsby | ||
| Examples : Gridsome | ||
| Examples : NextJS | ||
| Examples : NuxtJS | ||
| Examples : ReactJS | ||
| Examples : Sapper | Template project | |
| Examples : Svelte | ||
| Examples : Union Types | ||
| Examples : VueJS | ||
| Reference App : eCommerce | ||
| Reference App : Events and Conferences | ||
| Reference App : Marketing Website | ||
| Reference App : Podcasts | ||
| Reference App : Travel & Hospitality |
Explore more references on our GitHub profile, or view examples created with Hygraph and popular frameworks like Gatsby, NextJS, Svelte, Gridsome, and Vue, amongst others.
| Hygraph | Sanity | |
| Additional API Operations | 1,000,000/month 10c/10,000 On top | $1 per 25k additional API Requests per month |
| Additional Asset Traffic | 500GB/month 10c/1GB On top | $1 per 100k additional API CDN Requests per month |
| Content Entries | 10,000 - unlimited | unlimited Assets, Documents, Bandwidth limited |
| Custom Pricing | ||
| Enterprise Plans | ||
| Free forever community plan | ||
| Free trial for Premium features | ||
| Monthly and Annual Plans | ||
| Plans in EUR | ||
| Plans in USD | ||
| Pricing By | Project | Project |
| Self Service Plans |
Get started with a free forever developer plan or explore our other pricing options to accommodate your scaling needs.
| Hygraph | Sanity | |
| 24/7 Infrastructure Monitoring | ||
| Advanced Firewall Rules | Unknown | |
| Audit Logs | ||
| Authentication | ||
| Backups | ||
| Choice of data center | ||
| Community Support | ||
| Customer Success | ||
| Dedicated Infrastructure | ||
| Email Support | ||
| Encryption at rest | ||
| Encryption in transit | ||
| GDPR Compliant Infrastructure | ||
| Hosted in Europe | ||
| Implementation Partner Network | ||
| Login with Github | ||
| Login with Socials | ||
| Onboarding and Architecture Support | ||
| Onsite Chat | ||
| Project Backups | ||
| Public Slack Channel | ||
| SLA Performance | ||
| SLA Support | ||
| Solution Architects | Unknown | |
| SSO Support | ||
| User Management |