Our take
Pick Contentful if editorial / front-end teams who will stay on Platform Free at $0 forever (10 users, 2 roles, 2 locales, 100K API calls, 50 GB CDN, 1 Starter Space) while they open a first Entry editor, then buy a Lite Space at $850 / month when they need 50 content types / 50,000 records. Pick Sanity if content / product teams who will stay on Free at $0 forever while they open a first Structure list, then buy
Best for
Contentful Fields you publish at $0
Sanity Documents you edit in Studio at $0
Free plan
Contentful $0 · / forever. 10 users. 2 roles. 2 locales. 100K API calls / month (hard cap, no overages). 50 GB CDN / month. 1 Starter Space (25 content types, 2 environments, 10,000 records)
Sanity $0 · forever. Get started for free. Quotas for documents, API, assets, and bandwidth on the compare table we fetched
Lowest paid
Contentful Overage on paid plans $5
Sanity Growth $15
Next step up
Contentful Lite Space (add-on) $850/mo
Sanity Add-ons (Growth) $799
Runs where
Contentful Hosted
Sanity Local or hosted
Watch out
Contentful Free is hard-capped
Sanity Free is quota-capped $0, not unlimited CDN
Last checked
Contentful 2026-10-23 · contentful.com/pricing
Sanity 2026-10-23 · sanity.io/pricing
editorial / front-end teams who will stay on Platform Free at $0 forever (10 users, 2 roles, 2 locales, 100K API calls, 50 GB CDN, 1 Starter Space) while they open a first Entry editor, then buy a Lite Space at $850 / month when they need 50 content types / 50,000 records.
Read the Contentful pagecontent / product teams who will stay on Free at $0 forever while they open a first Structure list, then buy Growth at $15 / seat / month when they need roles, more seats, and paid add-ons.
Read the Sanity page
