Migrate from Drupal to Sanity

verified October 2026

Ditch legacy monolithic architecture. Migrate from Drupal to Sanity to replace high maintenance costs with a fast, secure, and modern headless platform.

Migration Without the Guesswork

Drupal is powerful, but the maintenance burden compounds fast. Core upgrades, module compatibility, and custom implementation work can turn everyday content changes into ongoing technical overhead. Moving to Sanity removes that drag without forcing you to throw away structured content — your content model comes with you, but it is no longer tied to a monolithic delivery stack.

Sanity gives editors and developers a cleaner split between content and presentation. Editors work in a leaner CMS built for structured content, while developers can shape the frontend around the channel, locale, or market without carrying Drupal-specific complexity into every change. That flexibility matters when your stack needs to adapt quickly. It keeps the content portable and the delivery layer free to evolve.

Why Migrate from Drupal?

# 1
Publishing takes too long and feels outdated
# 2
Editors rely heavily on developers for page changes
# 3
Multi-language or multisite setups are hard to manage
# 4
Drupal updates and module maintenance take a lot of time
# 5
Frontend flexibility is limited by the legacy architecture

What Caleffi Gained with Migration to Sanity

5,613
unique SKU'S
8,923
pages migrated
400k
documents migrated across multiple domains
8.923
documents in Sanity

How We Help Migrate?

01

Drupal Review & Content Planning

We review your Drupal setup, your content types, and what needs to be moved or improved.

02

Sanity Schema Setup

We create new content structures in Sanity that make editing easier and support your long-term needs.

03

Build a New Frontend (Next.js)

We build a faster and more flexible website using Next.js to improve speed and SEO.

04

Multi-Language & Regional Setup

We set up languages, regions, and workflows so global teams can manage content easily.

05

Training & Launch

We teach your team how to use Sanity and provide documentation so they can work independently from day one.

How we work

Governed and Scalable, by Design

We design content models, editorial workflows, and governance into the architecture from day one to make your Information Architecture clean and usable as your team, markets, and channels grow.

Editorial UX boosts your marketing team's speed and freedom. They can build pages, launch campaigns, and manage content without needing developer help.

Performance & AI SEO by Default

Each project includes a complete SEO + LLM optimization. Performance baseline as standard: Core Web Vitals, structured data, rendering strategy, and AI SEO setup.

Scalable Next.js architecture derived from 7+ years of experience.

Already live? Our Next.js SEO audit gives you an actionable, dev-ready assessment of where you stand.

Predictable & Efficient Delivery

90% of our projects fit the initial budget. That comes from the time we invest upfront — understanding exactly what we're building before a single line of code is written.

Our CMS Kit has page builders, navigation, localization, content models, and SEO settings. It boosts every engagement. Plus, it won’t limit your choices. It's a smart starter refined across dozens of production deployments, not a constraint.

Feature Mapping

Module-heavy CMS

Relies on a large ecosystem of modules to shape content behavior and features

Content platform built around schemas

Uses clearly defined content schemas, making content easier to understand, maintain, and scale over time

Complex content setup

Managing entities, fields, and views can become complex as projects grow

Simple, reusable content

Treats content as clean, structured objects that are easy to reuse across pages and channels

Heavy workflows

Workflows are powerful but often slow to configure and adjust

Faster team collaboration

Enables real-time collaboration, live previews, and quick feedback loops for content teams

Built-in page rendering

Responsible for both content and rendering

Frontend freedom

Delivers content via APIs, letting frontend teams build faster and change technologies without reworking content

Big upgrades

Major Drupal upgrades often require significant migration efforts

Easier long-term evolution

Allows teams to evolve content models gradually, reducing risk and avoiding large, disruptive rebuilds

Our Clients Say

"Our main goal was to get a new website that met SEC compliance requirements while also being well set up for SEO. The FocusReactive team handled both the design and development using Sanity CMS and Vercel, and delivered a fully working site ready for launch. The process was smooth, and we now have a clean, reliable website that gives us a strong foundation for future growth."

Michael Koenig
Founding Partner at Financial Team

"We needed a headless CMS solution to enter the highly regulated US sports betting and online casino market. We chose Focus Reactive to develop it using Sanity. Because of them, today we have a tailor made, flexible and high-quality CMS Studio on deadline. Impressed by the quality of work and transparency throughout the process."

Daniel Eordough
VP, Head of Product Management at Tipico

Recent migration projects

Caleffi

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Industry
Textile Manufacturing
Technical stack
Sanity
Shopify Hydrogen
Scope of work
Migration from Magento
Webshop development
Maintenance

Financial Team

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Industry
Finance
Technical stack
Sanity
Next.JS
Vercel
Scope of work
Website development

Tipico Marketing

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Industry
iGaming
Technical stack
Sanity
Next.JS
Vercel
Scope of work
Website development

TrafficGuard

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Industry
Advertising Technology
Technical stack
Sanity
NextJS
Vercel
Scope of work
Website Migration
Maintenance

FAQs

Migration from Drupal to Sanity

Sanity starts from $0 on Free and from $15 per seat/month on Growth, with Enterprise custom pricing. Drupal core is $0, but typical monthly platform costs often come from hosting, maintenance, and support, commonly around $100–$2,000+/month depending on setup. Drupal may look cheaper if a company already has the infrastructure and team to support it, while Sanity is often easier to budget and operate for teams that value structured workflows, collaboration, and lower ongoing content overhead.

Most migrations take 6–10 weeks, depending on your Drupal setup.

Yes, but Sanity is easy to learn. Most teams get comfortable quickly.

Yes, all important content, pages, and metadata are transferred securely.

Definitely, real-time collaboration speeds up both editing and approvals.

Yes, companies usually save on hosting, maintenance, and development time.

What we write about Sanity

Sanity CMS overview
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Sanity CMS overview

Delve into how Sanity CMS transforms content collaboration and management across diverse digital landscapes.
Think headless CMS are not customizable? We disproved this using Sanity
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Think headless CMS are not customizable? We disproved this using Sanity

Sanity encourage to customize almost everything. Any Sanity module can be rewritten. This makes it possible to have your own combination of standard and custom components in your application.
A Deep Dive into Sanity's Visual Editing and Presentation Tool
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A Deep Dive into Sanity's Visual Editing and Presentation Tool

Explore Sanity’s new Visual Editing and Presentation tool. See how these features make editing smoother, simplify content updates, and give developers and editors live previews right inside the CMS.

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