# Sanity review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Headless content platform with a customizable editing studio Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Sanity is a content platform for developers and editorial teams: structured content lives in a hosted, real-time database and is edited in Sanity Studio, then delivered through APIs to websites, apps and other channels. It has a free plan with up to 20 seats and a Growth plan priced per seat. It manages content only; the site itself is built separately. - **Category:** Website & Landing Page Builders - **Made by:** Sanity - **Website:** https://www.sanity.io/ - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a site you can build without code, as the front end is separate. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Sanity has a free plan, and paid plans start at $15 per seat / month (Growth). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Up to 20 user seats, 2 public datasets and 10k documents, with Sanity Studio hosting. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Up to 20 user seats, 2 permission roles, 2 public datasets, 10k documents, 250k API requests and 100 GB of bandwidth a month. | | Growth | $15 per seat / month | Up to 50 seats, 5 roles, 25k documents, comments and tasks, scheduled drafts and AI Assist. Pay as you go above included usage. | | Enterprise | Custom | Custom seats, roles and datasets, SAML single sign-on, an uptime SLA, dedicated support and onboarding. | Read from https://www.sanity.io/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Sanity before buying. ## Key features - **Sanity Studio:** A customizable editing interface, with free hosting included on every plan, live previews and visual editing tools. - **Hosted real-time content database:** Content is stored as structured documents in a hosted database, with unlimited content types and locales on every plan. - **Comments, tasks and scheduling:** Growth adds comments and tasks for editors, and scheduled drafts so content can be queued ahead of publishing. - **AI features:** Content Agent and Agent Actions are on the Free plan, and Growth adds AI Assist. - **Roles and security:** Free has 2 permission roles and Growth 5. Enterprise adds custom roles, user attributes and SAML single sign-on. ## Good for - Developers feeding content to sites and apps through an API - Editorial teams that need a customized editing interface - Small teams: the free plan allows up to 20 seats ## Worth knowing - It is a content backend and editing studio, so the front end of a site has to be built separately. - Past the included usage, extra API requests, bandwidth and assets are billed on top of the plan. - Growth add-ons include dedicated support at $799 a month and extra datasets at $999 each per month. - SAML single sign-on, custom roles and the Media Library add-on are limited to Enterprise. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Sanity is a content backend with an editing studio you can customise, and its free plan covers up to 20 seats. But it has no front end, so you build the website separately, and usage above the plan, extra datasets and support cost extra. - **Value for money: B.** The free plan covers 20 seats and 10k documents, and Growth is $15 a seat, which is about $75 a month for a team of five. - **Free plan and trial: B.** A free plan with 20 seats, 2 public datasets, 10k documents and 250k API requests a month, enough for one person to live on. - **Features: D.** A content backend only: the front end of a site has to be built separately, so it is not useful on its own. - **Ease of use: D.** No rating on record, and it needs developers to set up the studio and code. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with a public API for reading and writing content. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Sanity's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among website and landing page builders - Sanity's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 17 of the 55 other website and landing page builders we grade, and level with 16. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 51 of 55) and worst on features (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $15 a month for each person, against a middle price of $12.42 for the category: 31 of the 52 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 1.7 out of 4. 28 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/website-builders ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Nothing Sanity does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 5 things listed below take a company. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 22 of the 55 other website and landing page builders grade higher. It costs $180 a year. - You could not: Databases with views, filters and links between them. - You could not: Several people working in it at the same moment. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Public API, AI features, Real-time collaboration, Databases ## Alternatives - [Webflow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/webflow): Visual website builder with a CMS, hosting and code-level control. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/sanity-vs-webflow) - [WordPress.com](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wordpress-com): Hosted WordPress with themes, plugins and a free plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/sanity-vs-wordpress-com) - [Duda](https://toolgpa.com/tools/duda): Website builder for agencies that build sites for clients. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/duda-vs-sanity) - [Super](https://toolgpa.com/tools/super): Turns Notion pages into fast websites with your own domain. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/sanity-vs-super) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.sanity.io/pricing - https://www.sanity.io/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/sanity Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).