Service comparison

Contentful vs. Sanity

Contentful vs. Sanity — reliability, API availability, and incident frequency head-to-head.

Last 90 days · 24 incidents total · Data via Pulsetic monitoring

Head-to-head

90-day summary

Contentful

contentful.com

Ongoing incident
- 90-day uptime
  
  97.49%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  20
  
  3 major · 17 minor
- Median resolution
  
  1h 27m
- Longest outage
  
  12h 47m
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Sanity

sanity.io

Online
- 90-day uptime
  
  99.47%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  4
  
  3 major · 1 minor
- Median resolution
  
  2h 43m
- Longest outage
  
  5h 55m
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Uptime over time

Availability across windows

Window	Contentful	Sanity	Δ
Last 24 hours	100.00%	100.00%	0.00 pp
Last 7 days	100.00%	100.00%	0.00 pp
Last 30 days	97.79%	100.00%	-2.21 pp
Last 90 days	97.49%	99.47%	-1.98 pp

Δ is percentage-point difference (Contentful minus Sanity). Higher is better.

Incidents 90-day

Severity breakdown

Contentful

20 total

3 major 17 minor
- Median resolution
  
  1h 27m
- Longest outage
  
  12h 47m
Sanity

4 total

3 major 1 minor
- Median resolution
  
  2h 43m
- Longest outage
  
  5h 55m

Recent activity

Last 5 incidents, side-by-side

Contentful
- Jul 3
  
  Errors on requests to Contentful from Frankfurt (FRA) region
  
  7h 53m
  
  Minor
- Jul 2
  
  Errors on Contentful Content Management and Preview APIs.
  
  6h 34m
  
  Minor
- Jun 30
  
  Latency and errors using Content Model Templates
  
  1h 28m
  
  Minor
- Jun 29
  
  Issues signing in to Contentful using GitHub
  
  Ongoing
  
  Minor
- Jun 28
  
  Periodic errors and latency spikes on Contentful Management and Preview APIs.
  
  < 1m
  
  Minor
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Sanity
- Jun 25
  
  Query Performance Degradation for Some Customers
  
  < 1m
  
  Major
- Jun 15
  
  Slow Query Performance for Some Customers
  
  4h 9m
  
  Major
- May 29
  
  Content Agent - Delivery issue with some longer-running threads
  
  5h 55m
  
  Minor
- May 1
  
  Sanity MCP Server Unavailability
  
  1h 18m
  
  Major
- Apr 14
  
  Issues with organization and project creation
  
  < 1m
  
  Minor
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Bottom line

Sanity wins

Sanity edges out on 90-day uptime.

Contentful posted 97.49% vs. 99.47% for Sanity (Δ -1.98 pp). Incidents: 20 vs. 4 (+16).

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