# Sanity vs Strapi (slim)

> Sanity scores 73.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Strapi's 65.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Strapi leads on reliability and 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 Strapi's 65.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Strapi leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do cms content.

- Sanity: BB 73.7, rank #73 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sanity.min.md
- Strapi: B 65.7, rank #252 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/strapi.min.md
- 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 80; Agent ergonomics, 74 against 65; 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 Strapi loses 6 points for them.
- Strapi, good for Teams that want to own their CMS and let an agent draft, localise and publish entries under a narrow token. Ahead on Reliability, 82 against 77; Payments & pricing, 50 against 40. Also Open source.

| Category | Sanity | Strapi |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 77 | 82 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 67 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 89 | 87 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 87 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Sanity | Strapi |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Sanity US Inc. and Sanity AS | Strapi, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.sanity.io` | no (local only) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Sanity's terms of service. Sanity Studio, the CLI, `@sanity/client` and the agent toolkit on GitHub are MIT | MIT for the Community Edition. Code under ee/ directories is under Strapi's Enterprise Edition licence, and Strapi Cloud is a paid service under its own terms |
| Tools exposed | 53 | none |
| MCP registry | `io.sanity.www/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-10-07 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2023-03-01 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 6.4k stars, 4.1M npm/wk | 73k stars, 259k npm/wk |