Directus
Source-available collaborative backend over your own SQL database
Score breakdown
What makes up this score
- 1 independent review sources
- 1 answer engines measured
- cross-model consistency 1
- 5 web authority signals
- average citing-domain authority 35
- 100% of the category rubric covered
- No approved user reviews yet
Explanation
Why Directus ranks #5
Directus ranks #5 of 11 headless cms with a TOP SCORE of 47.
The category leader scores 63, a gap of 16 points.
That is 1 points below the category average of 47.
Its strongest component is External Reputation at 70; its weakest is Web Authority at 18.
No usable evidence was found for TOP10 User Score, so that weight was redistributed across the components that are evidenced.
Generated from the recorded evidence behind this score, not from editorial opinion. How scoring works.
Score history
How the score has moved
53 → 47 ↓5.9
External reputation
What third-party sources publish
| Source | Published | Normalised | Reviews | Last checked | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G2 ↗ | 4.9/5 | 98 | not published | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
AI visibility
How answer engines treat this platform
| Engine | Mention | Recommendation | Citation | Avg position | Queries | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude sonnet 5 grounded | 25% | 13% | 0% | 3.0 | 8 | 1 Sept 2026 |
Web authority
Citations and independent coverage
- Monospace Inc.31 Aug 2026
- G231 Aug 2026
- Medium (secondary, unverified)31 Aug 2026
- TrustRadius31 Aug 2026
- Capterra31 Aug 2026
TOP10 users
What our users report
No published reviews yet. Reviews are moderated before they appear and are never removed at a business's request.
Company information
The facts on file
- Description
- Directus is a source-available "collaborative backend" that points at an existing SQL database, introspects its schema, and generates REST and GraphQL APIs plus an admin app (Directus Studio) on top of it. Marketed under the headless-CMS category, it is architecturally a data platform that does not impose its own content schema. It targets developer-led teams that want to own the underlying database rather than migrate content into a vendor's proprietary store.
- Category
- Headless CMS
- Products
- Directus (self-hosted), Directus Cloud, Directus Studio admin app, Flows (automation), Directus AI Assistant, SDK and extension ecosystem
- Markets
- SMB, Startups, Agencies, Enterprise, Non-profits, Developers
- Integrations
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, SAML SSO, OIDC SSO, MCP / AI integration, SQL databases (existing schema introspection), REST API, GraphQL API
- 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. pricing page ↗
- Regulatory
- SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance are self-asserted in the vendor's site footer; no audit report was retrieved and the trust centre at https://trust.directus.com was not fetched, so both should be treated as unverified vendor claims. Licensing is Monospace Sustainable Core License v1.0 (MSCL-1.0-GPL), a source-available non-compete licence with delayed GPL-3.0 conversion on the fourth anniversary of each release — not an OSI open-source licence, and widely misreported elsewhere as MIT or BSL.
- Official website
- https://directus.com ↗
- Last verified
- 31 Aug 2026
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Category context
- This platform47
- Category leader63
- Category average47
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