b10cks vs Sanity
Sanity gives developers more room than anyone, and asks them to build the editing experience in React, learn GROQ, and pay per seat. b10cks ships that experience finished, for the same developer and the content team they work with.
Every feature. Unlimited editors. From €0 / month.
Where Sanity is genuinely good
Content Lake is a fast, flexible document store. GROQ is expressive, and once you learn it, genuinely good. Studio is React, so a team with the appetite can bend the editing interface into any shape. Real-time collaboration and version history ship on the free plan, and 20 free seats is generous. If you want maximum control, nobody gives you more.
Where it costs you
Not in the invoice alone. In the work that lands on your developers and never quite finishes.
Studio is a configuration framework. You define schemas in TypeScript and it renders forms. Preview is something you wire up with the preview API. b10cks ships a two-way-bound editor in the real page, with no setup.
Sanity has no localization system. Most teams reach for a community plugin that stores locale variants as object fields. It works, and it is yours to maintain. b10cks does field-level translation, inheritance and per-locale publishing as a platform feature.
Growth charges $15 per user with no upper bound. Ten editors is $150 a month, twenty is $300, before storage or traffic. Growth also stops at 25,000 documents and 5 roles. b10cks charges nothing per seat.
You can deploy Studio anywhere, but your content always lives in Sanity's managed cloud. No on-premise, no own AWS account, no data residency choice. b10cks self-hosts the whole stack, backend and storage included.
Feature comparison
Visual editing, localization, infinite-canvas modelling, scheduled publishing, comments, custom roles and SSO. On Sanity those are a mix of build-it-yourself, plugin, add-on and Enterprise. On b10cks they are the default state of a new workspace. And the API is REST, so the next developer you hire already knows it.
Fair is fair
If you are building an editorial tool that maps to no existing CMS pattern and you want React-level control over every element, Sanity is the best thing on the market and b10cks will feel like a fence. Our blocks are flexible, but they are opinions. That is the trade.
Price comparison
Ten editors who need localization, SSO and visual editing. On Sanity Growth that is $150 in seats plus $1,399 for SSO, so $1,549 a month, and the visual editor still has to be built. On b10cks Growth it is €75 a month with SSO, roles, locales and the editor already there.
Growth covers it
€75/ month, that scenario
Sanity, from the price list
Sanity's published plans, unchanged. The free tier is one of the best on the market. The step up is priced per person and the add-ons are steep.
$0 · 20 seats · 10,000 documents · 2 roles
$15 / seat, per month · 25,000 documents · 5 roles
+$1,399 / month on Growth
Custom · contact sales
Growth add-ons: dedicated support $799/mo, increased quotas $299/mo, extra datasets $999/dataset/mo.
Who should pick which
The other side
Spend the sprint on your product
The editor, the locales and the roles are already there. Point your frontend at the API and go build the thing you were hired to build.