Head to head
Directus vs Prismic
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
47/100Higher score | 45/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #5 | #6 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | Medium confidence |
| External Reputation | 70 | 80 |
| AI Authority | 31 | 28 |
| Web Authority | 18 | 11 |
| Expert Assessment | 63 | 52 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | $499/mo on annual commitment ($5,988/year); $599/mo rolling monthly · free tier: Core — $0/mo: 3 user seats (hard limit), 25 collections, 5 flows, AI Assistant, advanced RBAC, community support, 30-day activity log and revision history; no SSO and SSO cannot be purchased as an add-on. Separately, the Open Innovation Grant gives the full uncapped software free (self-hosted) to orgs under $5M revenue and under 50 employees, plus individuals, hobbyists and non-profits. | $10/mo per repository (Starter, annual billing rate) · free tier: Free $0/mo per repository: 1 user, 4M API calls/mo, 100 GB CDN/mo, 2 locales, Visual Page Builder, unlimited documents/types/assets, image optimization, Migration API — no overages allowed (exceeding limits locks the repository) |
| Pricing model | Freemium subscription with seat and collection overages; free uncapped grant for qualifying small orgs | Subscription (per repository, tiered with metered overages) |
| Best for | Developer-led teams with an existing SQL database who want an admin UI and auto-generated APIs over data they keep — especially orgs under $5M revenue and 50 employees, who get the entire uncapped product including SSO free when self-hosting. | A single marketing or corporate website on a Next.js/React front end, with an in-house developer maintaining slices, a marketing team publishing campaign pages frequently, 1–5 languages and predictable traffic; teams of 3–25 fit the $10–$150 rungs, and PoCs or small production sites fit the Free tier. |
| Avoid if | You are building a competing commercial product on top of it (forbidden by the MSCL Competing Use clause), you have a strict OSI-approved-licence procurement gate, you are a small team just over the grant thresholds facing a $499/mo minimum, you need SSO on a budget, or you are a non-technical editorial team wanting turnkey publishing. | You have spiky or bot-heavy API traffic and have not pre-emptively disabled default auto-upgrade, run many sites and want pooled quotas, need 9+ locales below an Enterprise budget, want genuinely developer-independent freeform page design, need omnichannel product content rather than website pages, or must cost the AI add-on before committing. |
| Markets | SMB, Startups, Agencies, Enterprise, Non-profits, Developers | SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise, Agencies, Developers |
| Founded | — | — |
| Headquarters | — | France |
A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.