Move to Sanity for better pricing, real-time collaboration, and more flexible content modeling.
You can migrate from Contentful to Sanity for free using LeaveWP. Enter your site URL, choose Sanity as the destination, and download your content — posts, pages, and media — in minutes. No API keys, passwords, or CLI tools required. Difficulty: Medium. Estimated time: 30-60 minutes.
Official docs: Contentful Documentation · Sanity Documentation
API-first headless CMS for omnichannel content. Enterprises needing to deliver content across web, mobile, and IoT channels, but these limitations push teams toward modern alternatives.
Expensive — free tier is very limited, paid starts at $300/month
This is the most common reason teams migrate away from Contentful. Sanity eliminates this issue entirely.
Editing experience is functional but not beautiful
With Sanity, groq query language is more powerful and flexible than graphql.
No built-in preview or visual editing (requires custom setup)
Modern architectures like Sanity are designed to avoid this from the ground up.
Vendor lock-in with proprietary content storage
After migrating, you'll no longer need to worry about this — Sanity takes a fundamentally different approach.
Real-time collaborative headless CMS with customizable Studio. Built with JavaScript/TypeScript (React-based Studio), it's developer-led teams wanting maximum flexibility in content modeling and editing experience.
GROQ query language is more powerful and flexible than GraphQL
Real-time collaborative editing (like Google Docs)
Fully customizable React-based Studio admin panel
Portable Text format gives structured rich text (not raw HTML)
Sanity is open-source and free to use. You own your code and data with no vendor lock-in. Deploy to any host that supports JavaScript/TypeScript, or use managed platforms like Vercel and Netlify for zero-config deployments.
Side-by-side comparison based on real platform characteristics
| Metric | Contentful | Sanity |
|---|---|---|
| Ease of Use | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 |
| Performance | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 |
| Flexibility | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 |
| Cost | ⭐ 1/5 | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 |
| Scalability | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 |
| Ecosystem | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5 | ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 |
| Language | API-based (any frontend) | JavaScript/TypeScript (React-based Studio) |
| Pricing | Free / $300+/month | Free / $15+/month per user |
| Open Source | No | Yes |
Ratings are based on publicly available data, documentation, and community consensus as of 2026. Individual experience may vary.
A detailed breakdown of how your Contentful content maps to Sanity
What may need manual attention
Custom server-side logic, third-party integrations, and platform-specific plugins will need equivalent solutions in Sanity. The core content (text, images, metadata) transfers cleanly.
Migrate your content in three simple steps
Enter your Contentful site URL — LeaveWP connects automatically.
Select Sanity as destination and choose content options.
Download your migrated content or preview it in your browser.
Migrating from Contentful to Sanity makes the most sense if you're experiencing expensive — free tier is very limited, paid starts at $300/month or outgrowing Contentful's architecture. Sanity is best for developer-led teams wanting maximum flexibility in content modeling and editing experience.
You should migrate if: your Contentful site is slow, your hosting costs are climbing, you need developer flexibility, or you want to adopt a modern headless architecture.
You might want to stay if: your Contentful site benefits from powerful content modeling with structured content types and you don't have the resources to learn a new platform.
The migration itself is straightforward with LeaveWP — enter your Contentful URL, select Sanity, and download your content. The more important question is whether Sanity's architecture fits your team's skills and your project's long-term needs.
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