# Ghost vs Sanity (slim)

> Sanity scores 73.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Ghost's 58.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Ghost leads on payments & pricing. Both do cms content. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Sanity scores 73.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Ghost's 58.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Ghost leads on payments & pricing. Both do cms content.

- Ghost: C 58.3, rank #455 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ghost.min.md
- Sanity: BB 73.7, rank #73 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sanity.min.md
- Ghost, good for A publication, blog or newsletter where an agent drafts posts and a person or a higher role publishes. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 50 against 40. Also Open source.
- Sanity, good 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. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 87 against 51; Agent ergonomics, 74 against 69; Security & auth, 67 against 56; Transparency & trust, 87 against 72. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Ghost loses 7 points for them.

| Category | Ghost | Sanity |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 77 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 51 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 56 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 89 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 72 | 87 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Ghost | Sanity |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Ghost Foundation | Sanity US Inc. and Sanity AS |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.sanity.io` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Licence | MIT, copyright Ghost Foundation. Ghost(Pro) is a paid hosting service under the Ghost Foundation's terms | Proprietary hosted service under Sanity's terms of service. Sanity Studio, the CLI, `@sanity/client` and the agent toolkit on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 53 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.sanity.www/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 56k stars, 24k npm/wk | 6.4k stars, 4.1M npm/wk |