# Hygraph vs Sanity (slim)

> Sanity scores 73.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Hygraph's 69.3 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Hygraph leads on reliability. 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 Hygraph's 69.3 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Hygraph leads on reliability. Both do cms content.

- Hygraph: B 69.3, rank #182 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hygraph.min.md
- Sanity: BB 73.7, rank #81 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sanity.min.md
- Hygraph, good for Teams on Hygraph who want an agent to create, localise and publish entries, upload assets or change schema, with delete and unpublish kept out of reach on MCP. Ahead on Reliability, 89 against 77. Also Free to start without a card.
- 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 78; Payments & pricing, 40 against 35; Maintenance & community, 89 against 74; Transparency & trust, 87 against 60. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.

| Category | Hygraph | Sanity |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 89 | 77 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 74 | 89 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 60 | 87 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Hygraph | Sanity |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Hygraph GmbH | Sanity US Inc. and Sanity AS |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.hygraph.com/mcp` | `https://api.sanity.io` |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Hygraph GmbH's Terms of Service. The `@hygraph/management-sdk` package is MIT | 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 | 17 | 53 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.sanity.www/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 52 stars, 8.6k npm/wk | 6.4k stars, 4.1M npm/wk |