Hygraph Vs. Sanity

#Why Hygraph is a better alternative to Sanity?

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.

#Challenges you are likely to face with Sanity

You are likely to face these challenges when using Sanity:

• The UI is not the best for non-dev teams. For example, it does not allow non-dev teams to create or edit the schema. Non-devs can’t customize how content is listed (create custom views), perform bulk actions on content, and much more.
• You need to host the CMS yourself, but the data is hosted by Sanity. There are no options to choose from if you are looking to host in your own region.
• It does not offer GraphQL by default and offers its own query language GROQ. GROQ is not a standard query API in the community, and many developers need to learn it from scratch while adopting it.
• It also allows you to deploy a GraphQL API, but with limitations. It’s only available for content delivery and you would have to use the REST API for mutations. You would have to make some changes to your schema to make it GraphQL compatible.
• If you use the GraphQL API, this makes the schema of your content public, so all types and fields will be introspectable by anonymous users.
• It does not allow you to connect to any third-party API.
• You can't define detailed permissions. For instance, you can allow a user to access “blogs”, but can’t add a condition (e.g., { "author": "John" }), or define stages or locales.
• It offers no audit logs at the moment.
• Lacks depth when it comes to certain content management capabilities. For instance, Sanity doesn’t offer custom content stages, batch operations, in-line or block embedding of content, the ability to create custom views, localized search, location based permissions, the ability to nest components and more.

On the other hand, Hygraph offers the capabilities to solve all of these challenges. Sign up for a free developer account to experience the difference.

#API and Core Features

Learn more about Hygraph's core features.

#Content Modelling

#Editorial Features and Content Management

Explore all of Hygraphs capabilities on our features page and docs.

#Digital Asset Management

#Community and Resources

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.

#Plans and Pricing

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#Security, Compliance, and Support