Sanity vs. Squarespace

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Sanity
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
Sanity from the company of the same name in San Francisco is a platform for structured content that comes with an open-source editing environment called Sanity Studio that users can customize with JavaScript and a real-time hosted data store.
$15
per month per seat
Squarespace
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Squarespace is a CMS platform that allows users to create a DIY blog, eCommerce store, and/or portfolio (visual art or music). Some Squarespace website and shop templates are industry or use case-specific, such as menu builders for restaurant sites.
$25
per month
Pricing
SanitySquarespace
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
Growth
$15
per month per seat
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
per month per seat
Basic
$25
per month
Core
$36
per month
Plus
$56
per month
Advanced
$139
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SanitySquarespace
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details28% to 36% discount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
SanitySquarespace
Features
SanitySquarespace
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Sanity
-
Ratings
Squarespace
8.2
67 Ratings
0% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.267 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Sanity
-
Ratings
Squarespace
6.6
58 Ratings
16% below category average
API00 Ratings7.151 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings6.137 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Sanity
-
Ratings
Squarespace
7.7
99 Ratings
1% below category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings9.284 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings7.178 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings7.498 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings7.299 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings7.496 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings8.195 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings8.286 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings6.780 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Sanity
-
Ratings
Squarespace
6.2
89 Ratings
18% below category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings7.376 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings6.580 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings5.851 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings5.565 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings5.867 Ratings
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User Ratings
SanitySquarespace
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(2 ratings)
8.5
(99 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(14 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
SanitySquarespace
Likelihood to Recommend
Sanity.io
Customization and creation of CMS are almost limitless. Building and customizing the platform is facilitated by a wealth of documentation and video content. As opposed to graphql and traversing rest APIs, Sanity's query language is a breath of fresh air. It really helps you if you want something lightweight but at the same time you want it to be scalable then I think Sanity is your best option.
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Squarespace
Squarespace is one of the best solutions out there for building a website or web experience that looks good, has great functionality and is cost-effective, even for smaller businesses. Although most people in marketing will find most of the elements intuitive, if the creator is struggling with any of the functionality, there are many, many support options and other users who can offer assistance.
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Pros
Sanity.io
  • GraphQL support.
  • Nice Intuitive Web interface to write blogs.
  • They provide us a subdomain on their cloud so that we can start testing our things directly on the web.
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Squarespace
  • Stupid simple to use. I know very creative people who cannot code and this is probably the easiest ever platform for them!
  • Pretty website templates and great functionality with showing off portfolios.
  • They've already figured out what are the problems that non-coding people have when creating websites and they've figured out a simple solution for all of it.
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Cons
Sanity.io
  • CMS can be a bit hard to work with for the new users
  • Documentation should include more examples of the output and code along with the output.
  • Custom inputs are quite difficult to start and work with.
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Squarespace
  • Customizing the sites can be highly UN intuitive
  • Navigation for editing the sites can be difficult and frustrating
  • Squarespace has different versions and it's hard to know which version you're on. You can't switch after you start making a site with one version.
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Likelihood to Renew
Sanity.io
No answers on this topic
Squarespace
Unless our website requires significantly more functionality in the future, I can't see us terminating our contract
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Usability
Sanity.io
No answers on this topic
Squarespace
It's simple to use for someone who is really good with computers as well as those who are not. I've been using my personal squarespace for years and have also helped clients build a starting page which they are later able to manage theirselves.
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Support Rating
Sanity.io
No answers on this topic
Squarespace
Help is available directly from the back end and uses full sentence searching to find answers to questions others may have asked before. With a ton of articles and support questions documents, it is very likely that your question has been answered. If not each page has the ability to open a direct email to support. Each case has a number and can be followed. Responses are often quick and have links and directions clearly stated
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Alternatives Considered
Sanity.io
Pricing is better than graph cms. and easy to use the intuitive interface to write my blog.
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Squarespace
Squarespace was quicker to set up and more accessible to manipulate the theme, pictures, and content. The page layouts are more versatile and fluid. With WordPress, more time-consuming efforts go into making a template work the way you want it to (because of the lack of the drag-and-drop grids that Squarespace has).
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Return on Investment
Sanity.io
  • It helped us to create an excellent developer experience and good experience for their editors as well
  • Sanity has created an incredible platform that effortlessly balances good DX for content modeling and good UI for content editing.
  • Pay-as-you-go hybrid service, no need to worry about reaching a cap and having to suddenly pay $500
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Squarespace
  • The cost is reasonably decent. My client says they spent about $20 a month or $240 a year. I asked her if she could add Google AdSense to her blog one day, and they believe they can. They said a custom site would cost them $3000-10,000 depending on who does it. And I agreed, but I found the website they created was on the lower end of that range.
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