Baack vs Sanity: an edit-in-page Sanity alternative for SaaS teams (2026)
Baack vs Sanity
Sanity gives developers a Studio to build and customise. Baack lets your team edit on the live page, keeps every version, and includes 10 collaborators per plan unit instead of charging per seat.
Last reviewed 30 September 2026
| Criterion | Baack | Sanity |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting and upkeep | Fully managed and UK hosted (EU on request). Nothing to install, patch or scale | Hosted content backend; you build, host and maintain the Studio app |
| Version history | Every change is kept on every plan. Rewind any item, or view the site as it was on any date | 3 days (Free), 90 days (Growth), 365 days (Enterprise) |
| Team seats | 10 collaborators per plan unit, so everyone can edit | Growth: $15 per seat per month, up to 50 seats |
The short version.
| Criterion | Baack | Sanity |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | SaaS teams who want content, workflows and customers in one hosted platform the whole team can edit | Developer-led teams who want a highly customisable, real-time editing Studio |
| Hosting and upkeep | Fully managed and UK hosted (EU on request). Nothing to install, patch or scale | Hosted content backend; you build, host and maintain the Studio app |
| Where content is edited | On the live page: click the content and edit it | In Sanity Studio, with visual editing available |
| Version history | Every change is kept on every plan. Rewind any item, or view the site as it was on any date | 3 days (Free), 90 days (Growth), 365 days (Enterprise) |
| Languages | Unlimited, on every plan | Through plugins, at document or field level |
| Team seats | 10 collaborators per plan unit, so everyone can edit | Growth: $15 per seat per month, up to 50 seats |
| Starting price | Free for eligible startups and charities; £25 for six months, then £49 a month | Free tier; Growth $15 per seat per month |
| Built in beyond content | Tasks and approvals, CRM for customers and companies, communities and threads | Comments and tasks on Growth |
Why teams choose Baack over Sanity.
No Studio to build
Sanity's editor is a React app your developers configure and maintain. With Baack, editing happens directly on your live site so editors see exactly what visitors see.
Invite everyone
Sanity charges per seat, making it expensive to invite outside help. Baack includes 10 collaborators per plan unit, so you can bring on translators, reviewers, SEO specialists and agency partners without seat penalties.
History that doesn't expire
Sanity keeps 3 to 365 days of history depending on plan. Baack preserves every change forever, with point-in-time rewind and complete audit records.
How your team works day to day.
| Criterion | Baack | Sanity |
|---|---|---|
| Editing experience | Click content on the live page to edit it; no separate app to learn | A customisable Studio; visual editing through Presentation |
| Drafts and scheduling | Drafts, scheduled publishing, and pending edits on published pages | Drafts; scheduled drafts on Growth; content releases on Enterprise |
| History and rollback | Full history for every kind of content; rewind or restore any version | 3, 90 or 365 days, depending on plan |
| Roles and approvals | Read only, update, or update and publish, per person or group, such as editors, translators, publishers | 2 roles (Free), 5 (Growth), custom (Enterprise) |
| Languages | Unlimited; each language is another version of the page | Plugins |
| Variants and personalisation | Unlimited content variants; run A/B tests by choosing the variant | Not built in |
| Working together | Every save is kept as a new version, so editors never overwrite each other | Real-time co-editing with presence |
What you pay, and what you run.
| Criterion | Baack | Sanity |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Simple plan units with baseline usage included; every feature on every plan | Per seat, plus usage: documents, API and CDN requests, bandwidth |
| Free option | Free plan for eligible startups, SMEs and charities | Free tier with quotas |
| Seats | 10 collaborators per plan unit; bigger teams add units | $15 each per month on Growth |
| Next step up | Another plan unit, or usage-based Enterprise pricing | Enterprise at a custom price, needed for SSO, the audit trail and releases |
| Who runs the servers | Baack, including security, scaling and backups | Sanity hosts the backend; you host the Studio |
| Onboarding and migration | Managed onboarding and migration, with planning and tooling, at a discount | Self-serve; onboarding on Enterprise |
Both are good tools, for different teams.
Choose Baack if…
- Editors should work on the live page
- You want every version kept, on every plan
- You'd rather not pay per seat
- You want languages, approvals, tasks and CRM without plugins
Choose Sanity if…
- Live co-editing with presence is essential
- You want a deeply customised React editing app
- You rely on GROQ or Sanity's plugin ecosystem
- You have developers to build and maintain the Studio
Moving from Sanity.
Managed onboarding and migration, with the planning and tooling done for you.
- Book a free stack audit, and we'll map your Sanity document types to Baack entities.
- We migrate your content, including languages, as part of managed onboarding.
- Replace GROQ queries with the Baack client, and retire your Studio.
Under the hood.
| Criterion | Baack | Sanity |
|---|---|---|
| APIs and SDKs | REST and API-first: content, tasks, CRM and communities all in one API. TypeScript and JavaScript clients | GROQ, GraphQL, REST and real-time listeners, with many SDKs |
| Content modelling | A flat name and sort-order matrix per entity, with references. No schema migrations; custom validation through webhooks | Schema as code in the Studio |
| Hosting and operations | Fully managed, with a 99.9% uptime SLA; on-premises deployments as a consulting service | Managed backend; you deploy the Studio |
| Security and compliance | Managed security and a GDPR-ready data model; Google sign-in, with other identity providers on request. SOC 2 / ISO 27001 can be arranged for enterprise contracts | SOC 2; SAML SSO and audit trail on Enterprise |
| Getting your data out | API-first: all of your data is available at any time | Export through the API and CLI |
Baack and Sanity: common questions.
Does Baack have real-time co-editing like Sanity?
Not live co-editing. Every save is kept as a new version, so editors never overwrite each other, and many teams draft in tools like Google Docs.
Do I need to build an editor with Baack?
No. Editors work on your live site; developers add the Baack client.
How does Baack handle languages?
Languages are built in and unlimited; each one is another version of the page.
Is Baack cheaper than Sanity for a big team?
Baack includes 10 collaborators per plan unit rather than charging for each seat.
Can I move from Sanity to Baack?
Yes. Managed onboarding covers planning, tooling and the migration.
Sanity details are from its publicpricing page, checked 30 September 2026. Plans change, so check before you decide.
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