{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "datocms", "name": "DatoCMS", "vendor": "Dato Srl", "vendorUrl": "https://www.datocms.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "cms", "summary": "DatoCMS is a hosted headless CMS from Dato Srl in Milan. Agents write records, assets, locales and schema through the REST Content Management API, the `datocms` CLI or a hosted MCP server, and read through a GraphQL Content Delivery API.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/datocms", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/datocms.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/datocms.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/datocms.json", "repo": "https://github.com/datocms/js-rest-api-clients", "license": "Proprietary service under Dato Srl's terms of service. The API clients in datocms/js-rest-api-clients and the CLI in datocms/cli are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://site-api.datocms.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@datocms/cma-client-node" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@datocms/cma-client" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "datocms" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve. The Content Management API takes an API token as a Bearer header. A person creates the token in the project's settings and binds it to a role, which limits it by model, action and environment. Every project starts with a read-only token, and tokens can be rotated by API. The hosted MCP server uses browser OAuth through oauth.datocms.com with PKCE and dynamic client registration, where the person picks projects and one of three access levels. Accounts on single sign-on can't use the MCP server. No app review or sales approval is needed.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The Free plan needs no card and includes 25,000 Content Management API calls a month, 300 records and three sandbox environments, with no overage. Professional is €199 a month, or €149 a month billed yearly, with 100,000 management API calls and €9 per extra 100,000. Enterprise is sold through sales. Prices are in euros only (https://www.datocms.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Content Management API docs, the MCP server docs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 9, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 152666, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.datocms.com/docs/content-management-api", "llmsTxt": "https://www.datocms.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "cms.content", "cms.publish", "cms.assets", "cms.localisation", "cms.schema" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "closed-source", "no-card", "free-tier", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "typescript", "cli", "graphql", "status-page", "iso27001" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 74.4, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 62, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 35, "reliability": 80, "schema": 85, "security": 77, "transparency": 80 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The Content Management API publishes a JSON Hyper-Schema for 202 operations, 100 documented error codes and rate-limit headers, and the hosted MCP server adds OAuth with three access levels. There are no idempotency keys, the only official client library is JavaScript, audit logs are Enterprise only, and prices are in euros with no machine payment route.", "bestFor": "Teams on DatoCMS who want an agent to create, translate and publish records, upload assets or change models, testing first in a sandbox environment.", "strengths": [ "Machine-readable JSON Hyper-Schema at `https://site-api.datocms.com/docs/site-api-hyperschema.json` covering 53 resources and 202 operations, with 656 examples", "Error bodies carry one of 100 documented codes, a `doc_url` and a `transient` flag, and 429 responses carry `x-ratelimit-reset`", "API tokens bind to custom roles by model, action and environment, and every project starts with a read-only token", "Hosted MCP server with OAuth (PKCE, dynamic client registration, revocation), per-project selection and a read-only level enforced at the network layer", "Free plan with no card, 25,000 Content Management API calls a month and three sandbox environments for testing changes away from the primary" ], "weaknesses": [ "No idempotency keys in the reviewed documentation. Safe retries rest on optimistic locking and the JavaScript client's automatic retry", "The only official client library is JavaScript and TypeScript. No Python, Go, PHP or Ruby client appears in the documentation index", "Audit logs are an Enterprise feature with a default retention of two months", "A database upgrade on 19 September 2026 put every project in read-only mode for about four hours, over an hour past its announced window", "The terms let Dato Srl modify or discontinue API access with or without notice, and free projects are suspended for the rest of the month at a quota limit" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `X-Api-Version: 3` and `Accept: application/json` on every request, with `Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json` on writes", "Records are `items`, models are `item_types` and assets are `uploads` in every path and payload", "Save a record, then call the publish endpoint as a separate PUT. Send `meta.current_version` on updates and re-fetch on `STALE_ITEM_VERSION`", "Stay under 60 requests every 3 seconds. On 429 wait the seconds in `x-ratelimit-reset`, and retry any error whose body has `transient` set to true", "Fork a sandbox environment for schema changes and promote it when checked. Use `POST /items/validate` to test a payload without saving it" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 74.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 35, "reliability": 80, "schema": 85, "security": 77, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 94 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @datocms/cma-client-node", "http": "curl \\\n -H 'Authorization: Bearer \u003cYOUR-API-TOKEN\u003e' \\\n -H 'Accept: application/json' \\\n -H 'X-Api-Version: 3' \\\n https://site-api.datocms.com/site", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http DatoCMS https://mcp.datocms.com", "config": { "mcpServers": { "DatoCMS": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.datocms.com" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/cms.content", "tool": "https://letme.dev/datocms" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Dato Srl", "domain": "datocms.com", "domainRegistered": "2016-03-18", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.datocms.com/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://www.datocms.com/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.datocms.com", "changelog": "https://www.datocms.com/product-updates", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms of service and the privacy policy name DATO SRL, Via U. Visconti di Modrone 2, 20122 Milano, Italy. The terms cover every plan except Enterprise, which has a separate agreement we did not find published.", "The Content Management API answers at site-api.datocms.com, the MCP server at mcp.datocms.com and the OAuth server at oauth.datocms.com.", "www.datocms.com/.well-known/security.txt gives security@datocms.com, a PGP key and the security policy page, and has no Expires field.", "The privacy policy carries no revision date in the Markdown copy we read. The GDPR page was last updated on 3 June 2026 and the security page on 2 September 2025.", "RDAP for datocms.com gives a registration date of 2016-03-18.", "The status page is the vendor's own, with a static mirror at status2.datocms.com and RSS, Atom and JSON history feeds. No data processing agreement was found on the legal pages." ], "score": 94 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/datocms.json", "live": { "slug": "datocms", "probe": { "target": "https://site-api.datocms.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:20.186687142Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 66, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 69, "p95ms24h": 113, "samples24h": 28, "samples30d": 28, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 28, "ok": 28 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.datocms.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:25.080597068Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:20.186687142Z" } }, "answer": "DatoCMS and Sanity score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 74.4 (BB) and 73.7 (BB). Sanity leads on payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "sanity", "name": "Sanity", "vendor": "Sanity US Inc. and Sanity AS", "vendorUrl": "https://www.sanity.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "cms", "summary": "Sanity is a hosted headless CMS. Content is stored as JSON documents in the Content Lake, queried with GROQ and edited in the open-source Sanity Studio. Agents reach it through the HTTP API or the hosted MCP server at mcp.sanity.io.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sanity", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sanity.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sanity.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sanity.json", "repo": "https://github.com/sanity-io/sanity", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under Sanity's terms of service. Sanity Studio, the CLI, `@sanity/client` and the agent toolkit on GitHub are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.sanity.io", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@sanity/client" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "sanity" }, { "registry": "packagist", "name": "sanity/sanity-php" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve. The HTTP API takes a Bearer token. Robot tokens are created in sanity.io/manage, with the CLI or through the Access API, carry a role (Viewer and Editor tokens on every plan), last until deleted unless given an expiry, and are shown once. Personal tokens last a year and act as the user. The MCP server at mcp.sanity.io uses OAuth with PKCE and dynamic client registration by default, with one scope named `global` and sessions of about 7 days, or accepts a token in the `Authorization` header. Custom roles that limit a token to a dataset or document type are Enterprise only. No app review or sales approval is needed.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan at $0 with no card, 20 seats, 10,000 documents, 250,000 API requests and 1 million API CDN requests a month, and hard caps that answer 402 when reached. Growth is $15 a seat a month with overage billed per unit. Enterprise is priced by sales. New projects get a Growth trial with Free plan quotas. An agent can start on the Free plan once a person has created the account (checked 2026-10-07).", "priceSummary": "$15 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the documentation (llms-full.txt) or on the pricing page (checked 2026-10-07).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 53, "popularity": { "githubStars": 6352, "npmWeekly": 4069926, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-07" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.sanity.io/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://www.sanity.io/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://www.sanity.io/docs/api/openapi", "registryName": "io.sanity.www/mcp", "capabilities": [ "cms.content", "cms.publish", "cms.assets", "cms.schema", "cms.localisation" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "headless-cms", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "groq", "graphql", "javascript", "php", "free-tier", "status-page", "soc2", "open-source-studio" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-02", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 73.7, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 73, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 89, "payments": 40, "reliability": 77, "schema": 87, "security": 67, "transparency": 87 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-07" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Sanity publishes 26 OpenAPI specs covering 225 operations, and its hosted MCP server saves edits to drafts or release versions, with publishing as a separate call. The Content Lake does not run schema validation on API writes, and custom roles that limit a token to one dataset or document type are sold only on Enterprise plans.", "bestFor": "Teams that model content as structured documents and want an agent to draft, patch and stage changes in releases for a person to publish.", "strengths": [ "26 public OpenAPI specs covering 225 operations at www.sanity.io/docs/api/openapi, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every documentation page", "MCP `patch_documents` saves to a draft or release version, never to published content, and `publish_documents` is a separate tool", "Mutations and actions accept `dryRun`, a caller-set `transactionId` and `ifRevisionID` for optimistic locking", "Free plan with 10,000 documents and 250,000 API requests a month, with Growth overage rates published per unit", "MCP server listed in the official MCP registry as io.sanity.www/mcp, with 30 versions published there between 15 July and 2 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "Schema validation rules run only in Sanity Studio. The HTTP mutation API accepts a document without checking them", "Custom roles scoped to a dataset or document type are an Enterprise feature. Robot tokens on other plans take a built-in role across the project", "The MCP OAuth server lists one scope, `global`, and the server documents 53 tools with no toolset or read-only mode", "A status incident on 22 July 2026, marked major on api.sanity.io, stayed open for 6 hours 20 minutes with two recurrences", "The vulnerability disclosure page says the bug bounty pilot has closed and no rewards are paid" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pin a static dated version in every URL, such as `v2025-02-19`. Omitting `apiVersion` in `@sanity/client` falls back to `v1`.", "Validate documents against the schema yourself before an HTTP write, or run `sanity documents validate` afterwards. The Content Lake does not enforce schema rules.", "Back off on 429 for mutations yourself. `@sanity/client` retries queries five times but never retries mutations. The limit is 25 mutations a second per IP.", "Over MCP, call `create_version` before `patch_documents` when editing inside a release, then patch the returned version ID with the same `releaseId`.", "Use GROQ projections and slices to size results. MCP query responses are limited to 64 KiB, and a blocked Free project answers 402 with `plan_limit_reached`." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 73.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 89, "payments": 40, "reliability": 77, "schema": 87, "security": 67, "transparency": 79 }, "provenanceScore": 95 }, "connect": { "install": "npx sanity@latest mcp configure", "http": "curl -H \"Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e\" \"https://\u003cproject\u003e.api.sanity.io/v2021-06-07/data/query/production?query=*\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add Sanity -t http https://mcp.sanity.io --scope user", "config": { "mcpServers": { "Sanity": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.sanity.io" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/cms.content", "tool": "https://letme.dev/sanity" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Growth", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 15, "note": "up to 50 seats" }, { "item": "API requests over quota (Growth)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.04, "note": "$1 per 25,000, after 250,000 a month included" }, { "item": "API CDN requests over quota (Growth)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.004, "note": "$1 per 250,000, after 1 million a month included" }, { "item": "Bandwidth over quota (Growth)", "unit": "gb", "usd": 0.3, "note": "after 100 GB a month included" }, { "item": "Increased quota add-on (Growth)", "unit": "month", "usd": 299, "note": "50,000 documents, 1 million API requests, 5 million API CDN requests" }, { "item": "Extra dataset (Growth)", "unit": "month", "usd": 999, "note": "per dataset" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Sanity US Inc. (with Sanity AS)", "domain": "sanity.io", "domainRegistered": "2015-01-07", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.sanity.io/legal/tos", "privacy": "https://www.sanity.io/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://www.sanity-status.com", "changelog": "https://www.sanity.io/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-07", "notes": [ "The terms of service dated 12 August 2026 are entered into with Sanity US Inc. The privacy policy dated 4 May 2026 is that of Sanity AS and Sanity US Inc. Growth has its own terms at sanity.io/legal/tos-growth, dated 26 March 2026.", "The API answers at https://\u003cprojectId\u003e.api.sanity.io and https://api.sanity.io, and the MCP server at https://mcp.sanity.io.", "www.sanity.io/.well-known/security.txt names security@sanity.io and the disclosure policy at sanity.io/responsible-disclosure, and has no Expires field.", "status.sanity.io answers with the same Statuspage as www.sanity-status.com.", "RDAP for sanity.io gives a registration date of 2015-01-07." ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sanity.json", "live": { "slug": "sanity", "probe": { "target": "https://api.sanity.io", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:33.072727795Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 64, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 36, "p95ms24h": 81, "samples24h": 71, "samples30d": 71, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 71, "ok": 71 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.sanity-status.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:58:13.587411975Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "sanity-io/sanity", "version": "v6.18.0", "released": "2026-10-06", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:28:11.279439468Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@sanity/client", "version": "8.9.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:28:08.05519452Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "sanity", "version": "6.18.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:28:09.308419229Z" } ], "githubStars": 6352, "npmWeekly": 4069926, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://sanity.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:50.777207368Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.sanity.io/docs/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:11.065534137Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "906020038702" }, { "url": "https://www.sanity.io/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:14.320679574Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "f0a780309f28" }, { "url": "https://www.sanity.io/legal/tos", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:15.452818667Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "68f22ec5d44d" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:58:13.587411975Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Dato Srl", "b": "Sanity US Inc. and Sanity AS", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://site-api.datocms.com", "b": "https://api.sanity.io", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Dato Srl's terms of service. The API clients in datocms/js-rest-api-clients and the CLI in datocms/cli are MIT", "b": "Proprietary hosted service under Sanity's terms of service. Sanity Studio, the CLI, `@sanity/client` and the agent toolkit on GitHub are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "9", "b": "53", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "io.sanity.www/mcp", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "2026-10-02", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "153k npm/wk", "b": "6.4k stars, 4.1M npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "DatoCMS and Sanity score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 74.4 (BB) and 73.7 (BB). Sanity leads on payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, DatoCMS or Sanity?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do DatoCMS and Sanity need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. DatoCMS has a hosted endpoint at https://site-api.datocms.com and Sanity at https://api.sanity.io.", "question": "Can an agent call DatoCMS and Sanity without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 67" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Teams on DatoCMS who want an agent to create, translate and publish records, upload assets or change models, testing first in a sandbox environment.", "slug": "datocms", "watchFor": "No idempotency keys in the reviewed documentation. Safe retries rest on optimistic locking and the JavaScript client's automatic retry" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 89 against 81", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 87 against 80" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Teams that model content as structured documents and want an agent to draft, patch and stage changes in releases for a person to publish.", "slug": "sanity", "watchFor": "Schema validation rules run only in Sanity Studio. The HTTP mutation API accepts a document without checking them" } ], "job": { "capability": "cms.content", "name": "Cms content" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/contentstack-vs-datocms.json", "title": "Contentstack vs DatoCMS", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/contentstack-vs-datocms" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/contentstack-vs-sanity.json", "title": "Contentstack vs Sanity", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/contentstack-vs-sanity" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-directus.json", "title": "DatoCMS vs Directus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-directus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-ghost.json", "title": "DatoCMS vs Ghost", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-ghost" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-payload.json", "title": "DatoCMS vs Payload", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-payload" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-storyblok.json", "title": "DatoCMS vs Storyblok", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-storyblok" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-strapi.json", "title": "DatoCMS vs Strapi", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-strapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-webflow.json", "title": "DatoCMS vs Webflow", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-webflow" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-wordpress.json", "title": "DatoCMS vs WordPress", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-wordpress" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-sanity.json", "title": "Directus vs Sanity", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-sanity" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-vs-sanity.json", "title": "Ghost vs Sanity", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-vs-sanity" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/payload-vs-sanity.json", "title": "Payload vs Sanity", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/payload-vs-sanity" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sanity-vs-storyblok.json", "title": "Sanity vs Storyblok", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sanity-vs-storyblok" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sanity-vs-strapi.json", "title": "Sanity vs Strapi", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sanity-vs-strapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sanity-vs-webflow.json", "title": "Sanity vs Webflow", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sanity-vs-webflow" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sanity-vs-wordpress.json", "title": "Sanity vs WordPress", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sanity-vs-wordpress" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 3, "datocms": 80, "edge": "datocms", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "sanity": 77, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "datocms": 85, "edge": "sanity", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "sanity": 87, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 4, "datocms": 78, "edge": "datocms", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "sanity": 74, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 10, "datocms": 77, "edge": "datocms", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "sanity": 67, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "datocms": 35, "edge": "sanity", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "sanity": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 8, "datocms": 81, "edge": "sanity", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "sanity": 89, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 7, "datocms": 80, "edge": "sanity", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "sanity": 87, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "DatoCMS and Sanity score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 74.4 (BB) and 73.7 (BB). 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The Content Lake does not run schema validation on API writes, and custom roles that limit a token to one dataset or document type are sold only on Enterprise plans." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-sanity", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-sanity.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-sanity.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-sanity.min.md" }, "markdown": "DatoCMS and Sanity score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 74.4 (BB) and 73.7 (BB). Sanity leads on payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do cms content.\n\n- DatoCMS: grade BB, 74.4/100, rank #62 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/datocms.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/datocms.json\n- Sanity: grade BB, 73.7/100, rank #73 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sanity.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sanity.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### DatoCMS (BB)\n\nGood for: Teams on DatoCMS who want an agent to create, translate and publish records, upload assets or change models, testing first in a sandbox environment.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 77 against 67\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No idempotency keys in the reviewed documentation. Safe retries rest on optimistic locking and the JavaScript client's automatic retry\n\n### Sanity (BB)\n\nGood for: Teams that model content as structured documents and want an agent to draft, patch and stage changes in releases for a person to publish.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 89 against 81\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 87 against 80\n\nWatch for: Schema validation rules run only in Sanity Studio. The HTTP mutation API accepts a document without checking them\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | DatoCMS | Sanity | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 80 | 77 | DatoCMS +3 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 87 | Sanity +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 74 | DatoCMS +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 77 | 67 | DatoCMS +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 40 | Sanity +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 89 | Sanity +8 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 87 | Sanity +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **74.4 · BB** | **73.7 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | DatoCMS | Sanity |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Dato Srl | Sanity US Inc. and Sanity AS |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://site-api.datocms.com` | `https://api.sanity.io` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Dato Srl's terms of service. The API clients in datocms/js-rest-api-clients and the CLI in datocms/cli are MIT | Proprietary hosted service under Sanity's terms of service. Sanity Studio, the CLI, `@sanity/client` and the agent toolkit on GitHub are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 9 | 53 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.sanity.www/mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-02 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 153k npm/wk | 6.4k stars, 4.1M npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**DatoCMS.** The Content Management API publishes a JSON Hyper-Schema for 202 operations, 100 documented error codes and rate-limit headers, and the hosted MCP server adds OAuth with three access levels. There are no idempotency keys, the only official client library is JavaScript, audit logs are Enterprise only, and prices are in euros with no machine payment route.\n\n**Sanity.** Sanity publishes 26 OpenAPI specs covering 225 operations, and its hosted MCP server saves edits to drafts or release versions, with publishing as a separate call. The Content Lake does not run schema validation on API writes, and custom roles that limit a token to one dataset or document type are sold only on Enterprise plans.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### DatoCMS\n\n1. Send `X-Api-Version: 3` and `Accept: application/json` on every request, with `Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json` on writes\n2. Records are `items`, models are `item_types` and assets are `uploads` in every path and payload\n3. Save a record, then call the publish endpoint as a separate PUT. Send `meta.current_version` on updates and re-fetch on `STALE_ITEM_VERSION`\n4. Stay under 60 requests every 3 seconds. On 429 wait the seconds in `x-ratelimit-reset`, and retry any error whose body has `transient` set to true\n5. Fork a sandbox environment for schema changes and promote it when checked. Use `POST /items/validate` to test a payload without saving it\n\n### Sanity\n\n1. Pin a static dated version in every URL, such as `v2025-02-19`. Omitting `apiVersion` in `@sanity/client` falls back to `v1`.\n2. Validate documents against the schema yourself before an HTTP write, or run `sanity documents validate` afterwards. The Content Lake does not enforce schema rules.\n3. Back off on 429 for mutations yourself. `@sanity/client` retries queries five times but never retries mutations. The limit is 25 mutations a second per IP.\n4. Over MCP, call `create_version` before `patch_documents` when editing inside a release, then patch the returned version ID with the same `releaseId`.\n5. Use GROQ projections and slices to size results. MCP query responses are limited to 64 KiB, and a blocked Free project answers 402 with `plan_limit_reached`.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, DatoCMS or Sanity?\n\nDatoCMS and Sanity score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 74.4 (BB) and 73.7 (BB). Sanity leads on payments \u0026 pricing, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do DatoCMS and Sanity need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call DatoCMS and Sanity without installing anything?\n\nYes. DatoCMS has a hosted endpoint at https://site-api.datocms.com and Sanity at https://api.sanity.io.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-sanity.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-sanity.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"datocms\", \"b\": \"sanity\"}`. 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