Cosmic vs Sanity

Cosmic 63

A closed service; the MCP server is MIT (18 of 30). Terms and privacy policy of 13 January 2025 give general retention, and the security FAQ says data is kept indefinitely unless deletion is requested; storage in MongoDB Atlas is disclosed (15 of 30). Some fields are marked deprecated in v3 and the changelog is dated; no deprecation policy (8 of 20). The security page answers who the sub-processors are, but that answer wasn't readable in the page source (12 of 20). 18+15+8+12 = 53.

Sanity 87

Sanity Studio, the CLI and @sanity/client are MIT. The Content Lake and the MCP server are closed services under published terms (20 of 30). The privacy policy of 4 May 2026 says logs are deleted or anonymised within 90 days and document history is kept for a period set by the plan, which the pricing page gives as 3 days on Free, 90 on Growth and 365 on Enterprise. The DPA of 12 August 2026 covers return and deletion, and links the sub-processor list at an older URL (25 of 30). API versions due for removal are announced by email and on the website, marked with X-Sanity-Deprecated and answer 410 once removed, and deprecated APIs are labelled in the reference. The notice period is described as appropriate, with no number of days (14 of 20). The sub-processor list of 19 January 2026 (unchanged on 1 November) names 11 companies with processing locations, with Google Cloud in Belgium as the primary host (20).

Cosmic 47

Separate read and write keys per bucket, rotatable independently (25), less 10 because the docs give read_key as a query parameter on GET (15 of 30). Read-only MCP access by leaving out the write key, four user roles on every plan, and a delete tool told not to run speculatively; no approval step (14 of 20). Objects hold text written by people and AI generation writes into the bucket; no prompt-injection guidance was found (3 of 15). An append-only audit log of security-relevant actions on Workspace or Pro plans (10 of 15). No SOC 2, ISO 27001 or HIPAA by the security page's own statement, no security.txt, reports to support email (5 of 20). 15+14+3+10+5 = 47.

Sanity 67

The MCP server uses OAuth with PKCE, dynamic client registration and a revocation endpoint, but lists one scope, global. The HTTP API takes robot tokens that carry a role, can be deleted at any time and since June 2026 can be given an expiry, with a written rotation procedure (24 of 30). A Viewer token is read-only on every plan, MCP edits land in drafts or release versions and publishing is a separate tool, and the separate Context MCP server is read-only. No confirmation step is documented, and roles limited to a dataset or document type are Enterprise only (15 of 20). No prompt-injection guidance found in the MCP documentation. Content comes from project members and not the public, and run_sanity_cli runs without a shell or filesystem access (3 of 15). Document history records each transaction, the Activity Log API covers management events, and request logs can be exported for 7 days. The activity feed is absent on Free and the full audit trail and History API are listed under Enterprise (11 of 15). SOC 2 Type 2, a vulnerability disclosure programme and a security.txt without an Expires field. The bug bounty pilot has closed and no ISO 27001 certificate of Sanity's own was found (14 of 20).

Cosmic 82

24 tools, in the 11 to 30 band (15), plus 5 because omitting the write key gives a read-only subset (20 of 25). limit, props, depth, cursor pagination with after, status and locale filters (20). Status codes with specific messages and fix-or-retry guidance per code (17 of 20). readOnlyHint and destructiveHint on the MCP tools; no idempotency keys for writes, though agent signup is idempotent (14 of 20). Few required parameters, a TypeScript SDK and a CLI, no SDK in a second language found (11 of 15). 20+20+17+14+11 = 82.

Sanity 74

GROQ projections and slices let a caller choose the fields and the number of results, and MCP query responses are limited to 64 KiB. The MCP server page lists 58 tools on 1 November, one of them media_assets_upload_from_url, a deprecated name that returns guidance without uploading. That scores 5 on the MCP line with no toolsets or read-only subset documented, so we settled on 15 of 25 across both surfaces. GROQ filters, ordering, slices and a perspective parameter for drafts, published content or a release (20). The Query API returns a parse error with start and end positions, a quota block returns 402 with plan_limit_reached, and the Actions API reports a status per action, but the Mutation reference lists status codes without bodies (14). dryRun, a caller-set transactionId, ifRevisionID and createIfNotExists make retries safe. The v2.14.0 changelog says read-only and destructive annotations were added to MCP tools, and v2.44.0 (27 October) corrected them on four tools. We couldn't read them without a token (15). Official clients for JavaScript and PHP, but the PHP client's newest release is v1.5.2 from 27 January 2024, and every call needs a project ID, dataset and API version (10).

Cosmic 45

No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices and quotas are public, with add-ons; no per-call price (10). Free plan with no card (20). Agent signup returns working bucket keys with no human signup; the human claims the project by emailed code within 14 days, so partial (15 of 20). 0+10+20+15 = 45.

Sanity 40

No x402, MPP or L402 in the documentation or on the pricing page (0). Plans and unit prices are public. Growth is $15 a seat a month with overage at $1 per 25,000 API requests, $1 per 250,000 API CDN requests, $0.30 a GB of bandwidth and $0.50 a GB of assets (20). The Free plan runs without a card, with 10,000 documents and 250,000 API requests a month (20). A person has to create the account in a browser. After that, projects, datasets and robot tokens can be created through the API or the MCP server (0).