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Prismic vs Sanity

With Sanity, your developers build, deploy, and maintain the tools your team uses to manage content. With Prismic, that system already exists, so your team can start building pages, not building the platform.

Used by 5,000+ companies, including The New York Times and UNICEF

Buy the page-building system, or build it?

Both platforms separate your content from how it's displayed, and both let your developers keep working in the coding tools they already use. Those are ties. The real question is how much of the website layer your team wants to own.

Sanity is a toolkit. Your developers define every content structure in code, and the editing tool itself is something they build and customize. Nothing about a page is pre-decided. That flexibility is real, and so is the maintenance.

Prismic is the product. A slice, a self-contained website section like a hero, a testimonial, or a pricing table, is the basic building block. The Page Builder, previews, releases, and the guardrails that keep pages on brand already exist. Your developers build slices, not the system that makes them work.

Editing Prismic page via Claude MCP
Prismic edit with AI

Where Prismic and Sanity actually differ

These are the three differences between Prismic and Sanity that actually change how much your team builds and carries.

  • Prismic

    The building blocks

    Every page is a stack of slices, and a slice never nests inside another one. The same slice a developer defines in code is the block a marketer drags into place in the page editor.

  • Sanity

    The building blocks

    An object can be a whole section, a card, or a single button, and objects nest as deeply as you allow. There's no platform answer to what a section is, so every team invents and documents its own.

  • Prismic

    The editing experience

    The Page Builder is a finished product with live preview built in. It ships in every plan, so marketers aren't waiting on developers to wire up editing before they can use it. Drag and drop slices, edit content and preview your pages.

    ✦︎ Slices don’t nest, so AI agents can easily understand and edit your pages through Claude or ChatGPT

  • Sanity

    The editing experience

    Studio is an open-source editing tool your developers set up, deploy, and maintain. Sanity offers starter templates to begin from, and Presentation lets marketers click directly on the live site to edit. A polished, guided editing experience is something your team builds and keeps up.

  • Prismic

    What agents build with

    The same rules apply everywhere: agents connect through Prismic's MCP server, choose from approved sections, arrange them, and fill in the content. Agent changes are saved as drafts in a release, and only people with a Publisher role can publish.

  • Sanity

    What agents build with

    Sanity connects agents through its own MCP server, Agent Actions, and Content Agent. What they build with is whatever structure your developers modeled, which differs from project to project.

Category
PrismicSanity
Built for
Websites and landing pages first, with APIs and MCP for AI workflows and everything elseAny content, for any channel, from websites and apps to AI workflows
The building block
The slice: a website section (slices)The object: your team decides what it means
Page structure
Flat. A section never nests inside another sectionArbitrary nesting, designed project by project
Visual editing for marketers
The Page Builder: drag-and-drop editing, included in every planPresentation and Visual Editing, on every plan, wired up by your developers
Content modeling
Modeled visually in the Type Builder, with types generated for your frameworkSchema-as-code in TypeScript, version controlled with your app
What AI agents build with
The same slices marketers use, through Prismic's MCP. Changes are saved as drafts in a releaseSanity's MCP server and agent tools, working on the structure your team designed

Which platform should you choose: Prismic or Sanity?

Neither platform is the right fit for every team. Here's how to tell which one fits yours.

  • Choose Prismic if …

    • Marketing owns the website and is responsible for shipping pages that drive revenue
    • You want a ready-made page-building system instead of building and maintaining your own
    • You want a consistent structure across every project, without relying on custom content models
    • You use Next.js, Nuxt, or SvelteKit and want sections built as real components in your codebase
    • You want AI agents building from the same approved sections as your team, with your team deciding what goes live
  • Choose Sanity if …

    • You need to define your content structure entirely in code and deploy it through your existing development pipeline
    • Your workflow is highly custom and building your own editing experience gives you the flexibility you need
    • Your content needs to power apps, commerce, AI workflows, and websites equally
    • You have the engineering resources to build and maintain your own page-building system as your needs grow

Stop comparing. Start building

Developers get a CLI they'll enjoy. Marketers create pages that stay on brand, even when AI agents are the ones building them.

Frequently asked questions

The questions teams ask most when they're comparing Prismic and Sanity.

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