Pick Sanity if
content / 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.
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Our take
Pick Sanity if content / 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. Pick Strapi if content / app teams who will stay on Community self-host $0 while they publish a first article, or start Cloud Starter at $35/project/month (100k API requests, 50 GB assets) when they do not want to
Best for
Sanity Documents you edit in Studio at $0
Strapi Entries you start at $35 Cloud or OSS $0
Free plan
Sanity $0 · forever. Get started for free. Quotas for documents, API, assets, and bandwidth on the compare table we fetched
Strapi $0 · you run it
Lowest paid
Sanity Growth $15
Strapi Usage $1.50/mo
Next step up
Sanity Add-ons (Growth) $799
Strapi Starter $35/mo
Runs where
Sanity Local or hosted
Strapi Local; you host it
Watch out
Sanity Free is quota-capped $0, not unlimited CDN
Strapi Cloud Starter is 100k API requests
Last checked
Sanity 2026-10-23 · sanity.io/pricing
Strapi 2026-10-22 · strapi.io/pricing-cloud
Which one, then?
Pick Strapi if
content / app teams who will stay on Community self-host $0 while they publish a first article, or start Cloud Starter at $35/project/month (100k API requests, 50 GB assets) when they do not want to run Node themselves.
Read the Strapi page