# Sanity vs WordPress (slim)

> Sanity scores 73.7 (BB) on agent readiness against WordPress's 64.8 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. WordPress 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 WordPress's 64.8 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. WordPress leads on payments & pricing. Both do cms content.

- Sanity: BB 73.7, rank #69 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sanity.min.md
- WordPress: B 64.8, rank #249 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wordpress.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 65; Security & auth, 67 against 62; Maintenance & community, 89 against 83; Transparency & trust, 87 against 68. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where WordPress loses 5 points for them.
- WordPress, good for Sites that already run WordPress, where an agent drafts posts and uploads media under a Contributor or Author account and a person publishes. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 60 against 40. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | Sanity | WordPress |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 77 | 78 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 65 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 67 | 62 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 89 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 87 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Sanity | WordPress |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Sanity US Inc. and Sanity AS | WordPress.org (open-source project) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.sanity.io` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Sanity's terms of service. Sanity Studio, the CLI, `@sanity/client` and the agent toolkit on GitHub are MIT | GPL-2.0-or-later. The MCP Adapter plugin is GPL-2.0-or-later too |
| Tools exposed | 53 | none |
| MCP registry | `io.sanity.www/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 6.4k stars, 4.1M npm/wk | 21k stars |