What's most *surprisingly* great about Sanity is how thorough it is in its approach – from its well-documented developer experience to its minimalistic and user-friendly user interface.

I love how easily extendible the Studio is, and how data models are all handled in code – meaning they're automatically version-managed, more clearly/easily migrated, and how you don't need to learn any extra product-specific/proprietary frameworks. It's just JS.

But again – the thoroughness. Being experienced with CMSes like Contentful, Craft, Wordpress, Strapi, when using Sanity it feels like most of the annoying aspects of all those platforms have been considered and solved.

There's currently no way of localizing the Studio. You could build your own custom studio, but in most cases that won't be realistic. It'd be great if there was a way to at least add your own translations to the Studio.

Definitely nothing to lose by trying it out. It'd genuinely surprise me if it doesn't turn out to be a good experience.

Code collaboration is way easier with all the schema models being defined in code rather than through some finicky UI.

The Studio UI is also faster, simpler and cleaner than most other alternatives, making it easier for other collaborators to use.

The fact that it also has great version history management and live-collaborative features? Amazing.

On another technical note: GROQ, an open-source query language standard alternative that Sanity offers, is great. It feels a bit like how you'd *want* Graph queries to work.

I've tried a number of CMS platforms with contentful being the most popular. They always felt like they had so many hoops to jump through to get started & hard to use templates. Sanity is easy & straightforward to get running & customize. Love that I can use React & deploy with Netlify. Perfect trio stack.

I'd like to see more starter templates down the line. Nothing wrong with the current line up just would like to see more templates to start off with from bare-bones pages to robust pages

I hate WordPress, Squarespace has a high cost for simple sites. I was able to get a business page running for a client + give them edit access within 30 mins. Allows me to build the page & another to perfect the content

I like the pricing model, I use to be with contentful but the pricing model is so much better with sanity.

the language can be a but of a challenge to get your head around but once you have it becomes a bit easier

I'm using it as a sort of backend for our blog posts, the benefits that I have realised is once you know it feels very easy to add blog posts

Designing a content model and schema is so much easier and more flexible than alternatives such as Contentful. I realize some people prefer GraphQL, but I am sold on GROQ and the surgical precision in which I can query exactly the data that I need.

As a developer (without much of a background in content), when Sanity was first released, I tried out a free account and didn't get it; I didn't see the benefit of setting up a content model in what seemed to be an overly complicated fashion. Now that I work with more content and with non-technical people updating content, I more clearly understand the benefits. However, it still took some time to evaluate the differences between Sanity and other platforms. So, for me at least, my main dislike of Sanity was that it took me a while to grok (or should I say groq) the depth of benefits that Sanity has to offer. I would have adopted Sanity into more projects earlier on had I realized what I finally understand now.

With the nonprofit that I run, I originally thought a headless CMS would solve the issue of non-technical volunteers having trouble contributing content in our pull request workflows. It has done that, but also, designing a content model within the scope of Sanity has clarified our content in ways that we had not taken the time to consider before our work within Sanity. It was so easy to design and tweak the schema. I tried doing similar in Contentful, and it felt slow and clunky in comparison.

Rapid schema management, image handling, ease and pleasure of editing, flexibility, scalability, pricing.

Occasional performance issues with the platform. Minor and rare.

In our opinion, having built over 30 headless CMS powered websites, Sanity is much better than Contentful, Prismic and others.

Websites for our clients as a web agency. Clients love the flexibility and authoring experience.