The Live Content API is now Generally Available

Written by Knut Melvær

We launched the beta of the Live Content API in Fall 2024. It has graduated from beta and is now production-ready for all Sanity users. This release enables real-time content delivery at scale with minimal implementation overhead.

What is the Live Content API?

The Live Content API solves the challenge of delivering real-time content updates to a large audience without complex infrastructure or performance bottlenecks. It provides a simple API surface that lets you subscribe to content changes and automatically update your applications when content changes.

Watch this talk from Next.js Conf 2024 to learn about Live by default web experiences:

Key features

• Efficient real-time updates: Subscribe to granular content changes with automatic CDN cache invalidation.
• Precise query control: Get updates only for the exact content you need using GROQ or GraphQL.
• Built for scale: Handles millions of concurrent connections with consistently low latency.
• Framework integration: First-class support for Next.js, with example implementations for many popular frameworks
• Developer-friendly: Simple API that works seamlessly with your existing content queries.

Implementation example

Here's how easy it is to implement live product updates in Next.js: