--- title: "Leiho vs Sanity: headless CMS comparison" description: "Hosted content platform (Content Lake) with an open-source, code-configured React editing app called Sanity Studio. Leiho takes another route: your content stays in WordPress, and editors click the real page of your own front end to change it." url: https://leiho.dev/compare/sanity lang: en updated: 2026-11-04 --- Compare # Leiho vs Sanity Hosted content platform (Content Lake) with an open-source, code-configured React editing app called Sanity Studio. Leiho takes another route: your content stays in WordPress, and editors click the real page of your own front end to change it. | | Leiho | Sanity | | --- | --- | --- | | Hosting | Your own WordPress, on any PHP host. Your front end stays wherever it is. | Both, partly: content is stored in Sanity's hosted Content Lake (SaaS only); the Studio app can be self-hosted or deployed on Sanity. | | Open source | Yes, GPL-2.0-or-later (plugin and bridge). | Studio is MIT (open source); the Content Lake backend is proprietary and paid by usage. | | Pricing | Free. No seats, no usage limits. | Free plan: yes ($0, up to 20 seats, 10k documents). Entry paid plan: Growth, $15 per seat/month, with pay-as-you-go usage above included quotas. | | Visual editing | Yes: editors click text and images on the real front end, inside wp-admin, and it updates as they type. | Yes: the Presentation tool shows the real front end inside Studio, and clicking an element opens the matching field (quickstarts for Next.js, Astro, Remix, SvelteKit, Nuxt). | | Content model | Leiho Collections (schema builder or leiho.schema.json), or your existing ACF fields. | Code (schemas defined in JavaScript/TypeScript in the Studio config). | | AI | Writing with your brand context on every text field, through WordPress’s own AI connectors (WordPress 7.0+). | AI Assist, Agent Actions, Content Agent and semantic search/embeddings, with monthly AI credits per plan. | | MCP server | Yes, through the official WordPress MCP Adapter: agents read content and write drafts only. | Yes, hosted remote server. | | Localization | Built in, field by field: one entry holds every language, fields are translatable or shared, and AI or agents (MCP) translate what is missing. | Yes, via official plugins (field-level or document-level localization). | | SEO and AI search | Built in: each collection maps its fields to schema.org, description and FAQ. Leiho serves JSON-LD, llms.txt and every page as Markdown, in every language. | No built-in JSON-LD, llms.txt or Markdown output; SEO fields are modeled by you (the main SEO plugin is community-made). Sanity publishes an official starter with .md routes and llms.txt, as front-end code. | Checked on 5 November 2026 from each vendor’s site. Prices and plans change: follow the sources below. - Real-time collaborative editing on a hosted content store, with no database or server to run. - GROQ query language and fully code-defined, versionable schemas. - Studio is a customizable React app that developers can extend deeply. - Your content stays in a WordPress you host, not in a vendor’s cloud. - Free and GPL for every site: no seats, plans or usage limits to watch. - Editors keep WordPress: their login, roles, media library and plugins. - Publishing follows your deployment, from a build hook to GitHub Actions or a self-hosted Coolify. ### Choose Sanity if… Developer-led teams that want a code-defined schema and a deeply customizable editor on top of a managed content backend. ### Choose Leiho if… Your team or your clients already know WordPress, you want them to edit the real page of a Next.js, Astro, Nuxt or SvelteKit site, and you’d rather not pay per seat or move content to a vendor’s cloud. ## Can I move from Sanity to Leiho? There is no automatic importer from Sanity. Leiho entries are WordPress posts, so content can be brought in with WordPress import tools or a script using Leiho’s PHP API. Your front-end components usually stay the same: only the data source and the annotations change. ## Do I need WordPress? Yes. Leiho is a WordPress plugin: WordPress stores the content and runs the back office. Any PHP host works, and your front end stays separate. Sources: [sanity.io/pricing](https://www.sanity.io/pricing) · [sanity.io/docs/visual-editing/introduct…](https://www.sanity.io/docs/visual-editing/introduction-to-visual-editing) · [sanity.io/docs/studio/localization](https://www.sanity.io/docs/studio/localization) · [sanity.io/docs/compute-and-ai/mcp-server](https://www.sanity.io/docs/compute-and-ai/mcp-server) · [github.com/sanity-io/sanity](https://github.com/sanity-io/sanity) · [sanity.io/agent-ready-content](https://www.sanity.io/agent-ready-content). Something out of date? [Tell us](https://github.com/pixelersagency/leiho/issues/new?title=Comparison%20update). 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