Hire a Sanity CMS Developer

Senior freelance Sanity specialists typically charge $80–$160 per hour, and Sanity agencies bill a blended $150–$250 per hour. I work on fixed prices instead of hourly, well below typical agency quotes: a Sanity + Next.js site build starts at $4,000, a migration to Sanity at $3,000, and a performance and Sanity audit at $800. You get a written fixed-price proposal within 48 hours of a 30-minute scope call.

Look for developers who show real Sanity work, not just React: live sites with a content model you can inspect, writing about GROQ, Studio customisation, and preview, and clear answers about schema design. Sanity's community and showcases, specialist portfolios, and freelance platforms all work — the deciding factor is depth on Sanity itself. You can see my Sanity case studies below and book a free scope call to test that depth directly.

For freelance work, expect project-based pricing rather than a raw hourly rate. My fixed-price packages start at $4,000 for a Sanity + Next.js site build, $3,000 for a migration off WordPress or Contentful, and $800 for a performance and Sanity audit; larger content platforms scale from there with content volume and integrations. I send a fixed-price proposal with milestones after a scope call, so there are no day-rate surprises. Note this is the cost of the developer — separate from Sanity's own SaaS plan pricing.

A freelancer is usually cheaper, faster to start, and gives you one senior person who actually writes the code — ideal for a focused build or migration. An agency makes more sense when you need design, copy, and ongoing multi-discipline support under one roof. I work directly with founders and as overflow capacity for agencies. I cover the trade-offs in detail in my hire-vs-agency guide.

I keep a small active client load, so I can usually start a scoped engagement within one to two weeks. Book a 30-minute call and I'll tell you honestly whether I have the bandwidth for your timeline before you commit to anything.

Yes. I'm based in Surat, India (IST) and structure my day around strong overlap with European working hours and the US East Coast morning. Communication is async-first with a live staging URL from day one, so you're never waiting a full day to see progress.

Yes — migrations are a core part of what I do. I map your existing content model to typed Sanity schemas, migrate the data, rebuild the front end on Next.js, and 301-redirect legacy URLs so you keep your SEO equity. Editors typically find Sanity Studio easier than what they were using before.

Most frontend developers can render a React page. A Sanity specialist designs typed schemas with sensible references, writes GROQ queries that don't waterfall, customises Sanity Studio for editors, wires webhook-driven ISR revalidation, handles image hot-spot and focal-point pipelines, and sets up document internationalisation. That's the difference between a site that technically uses Sanity and one editors actually enjoy.