Sanity is a strong choice when developers want the content model in code. Capa suits teams that change models in the admin and need a publish live in seconds. Here is where each one is ahead.
Every fact about Sanity links to its source. Checked October 2, 2026.
| Area | Capa | Sanity |
|---|---|---|
| Publish to live | Ahead: 2 to 3 seconds, measured | “In 60 seconds or less” on the high-frequency CDN1 |
| While the cache refreshes | Readers get the previous copy while the edge refetches | “If a cache is stale, it’s refreshed in the background”1 |
| What a publish clears | Only the entries and models it touched | Sync Tags, so “updates only affect what needs to be refreshed”1 |
| Content model | Built in the admin, drag and drop | TypeScript in your repo, deployed with CI/CD2 |
| Query languages | REST and GraphQL | GROQ and GraphQL5 |
| GraphQL after a model change | Ahead: Follows your models. Nothing to deploy. | Run sanity graphql deploy to update the API3 |
| Reviewing changes | One queue of every unpublished change, with word-level diffs | Compare any two versions2 |
| Scheduling | Wall-clock time plus a time zone | Specific dates and times, per release4 |
| Named releases and rollback | Not yet. One publish queue. | Ahead: Releases you preview together and roll back4 |
| Editing together | No co-editing, comments or tasks yet | Ahead: Multiplayer editing; comments and tasks on Growth2,5 |
| Live updates in an open page | Not yet | Ahead: Live Content API1 |
| Writing content over an API | Not in /api/ or GraphQL, which are read-only | Ahead: Mutation API: create, patch and delete documents7 |
| MCP server | Runs locally with an API key. 19 tools; none change content. | Ahead: Hosted, signs in with OAuth or a token, creates and patches documents6 |
| Roles | Four fixed: admin, developer, content, viewer | 2 on Free, 5 on Growth, custom on Enterprise5 |
| Datasets | One set of content per project, no separate environments yet | Ahead: 2 on every plan5 |
marks the one that is ahead. No dot: different, or even.
A publish purges only the entries and models it changed, and the edge fetches the new version while readers still get the old one. We measured 2.3 to 2.6 seconds from Publish to live on October 1, 2026. Sanity says its high-frequency CDN “delivers changes in 60 seconds or less”.1
Build a model in the admin: drag fields into rows and groups, link entries to each other, and it is ready to fill. Changing it takes a few clicks for whoever has access, with no pull request and no deploy. In Sanity, content types are TypeScript in your repo and ship with CI/CD.2
Capa builds the GraphQL schema from your models as they are, so a new field can be queried with no deploy step. REST under /api/ reads the same entries, and our releases never change a live integration. Sanity’s docs say a schema change needs sanity graphql deploy before the API reflects it.3
We would rather you choose well. This is what Sanity does today that Capa does not.
Several people edit one document at once, with inline comments and tasks; comments and tasks come with the Growth plan. Capa has none of these yet.2,5
Releases bundle changes across documents, preview together, and roll back after publishing. Capa has one publish queue and scheduling, without named releases or rollback.4
The Live Content API changes a page while it is open, without a reload. A Capa page shows the new version on its next read.1
Sanity’s hosted MCP server and its Mutation API create and patch documents. Capa’s MCP server runs on your machine and never changes content, and its delivery APIs are read-only.6,7
Content types live in TypeScript, versioned in git and reviewed in pull requests, with TypeGen for types. Capa’s models live in the admin, and the capa-codegen CLI pulls types out.2
Every Sanity plan includes two datasets. A Capa project has one, with no separate environments yet.5
There is no importer yet. Tell us about your schema, how much content you have and what reads it, and we will work out the move together.
Not with a tool yet: there is no importer today. Tell us about your schema, how much content you have and what reads it, and we will plan the move with you.
No. Capa reads over REST under /api/ or GraphQL at /api/graphql. Both are read-only, and our releases never change a live integration.
No. Models are built in the admin with a drag-and-drop layout builder. Developers pull TypeScript types from them with the capa-codegen CLI.
We measured 2.3 to 2.6 seconds from Publish to live on October 1, 2026. A publish purges only the entries and models it touched, and readers get the previous copy until the new one arrives.
Not together in real time. Capa has no multiplayer editing, comments or tasks yet. If your team depends on them, Sanity has all three today.
Yes. Run npx -y @capacms/mcp with an API key and your agent gets 19 tools to explore your models and query your content. None of them change your content.
Capa facts describe the product as it ships today. Publish to live was measured on October 1, 2026. This page is not affiliated with or endorsed by Sanity.
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