European alternatives to Sanity
A developer-centric headless CMS with a highly customisable, open-source editing studio. Norwegian-founded and EFTA-based, though the hosted backend runs on Google Cloud.
Company information about Sanity
- Company
- Sanity AS
- Headquarters
- Oslo, Norway
- Founded
- 2015
- Data jurisdiction
- EFTA
- Ownership
- VC-backed
- GDPR
- Yes
- Open source
- Partial
- Infrastructure
- Google Cloud
Why people switch away from Sanity
European alternatives to Sanity
Austrian headless CMS trusted by enterprises and agencies worldwide. Visual editor for content teams, powerful API for developers, with EU-based infrastructure and $138M raised.
Berlin-born headless CMS – but no longer European-controlled. After raising from US investors (Sapphire, Tiger Global) it was acquired by Salesforce (US) in June 2026. Runs on AWS with a US-default region; EU data residency (AWS Dublin/Frankfurt) is opt-in. SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified.
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Why switch away from Sanity?
CLOUD Act
Allows US authorities to compel American companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world.
FISA Section 702
Permits mass surveillance of non-US persons' data held by US tech providers, without a warrant.
GDPR vs US law
Transferring personal data to US companies may conflict with EU data protection rules under GDPR.