Directus Pricing Overview

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Free Trial

Starter Cloud

Starting at $15.00

1 Seats Per Month

Best for static site CMS projects and small personal projects.

Professional Cloud

Starting at $99.00

5 Seats Per Month

Our Professional Cloud offer includes the infrastructure needed to run a POC or low-production use case. Best for development, staging, and early production projects.

Enterprise Cloud

Flexible & Scalable on Dedicated Hardware. For projects that require a completely tailored data solution without limitations or compromise, our Enterprise tier is the most performant option available.

Self-Hosted

Free

For individuals, companies, and organizations with less than $5,000,000 in total finances.

Directus supports both On-Prem and Managed Cloud options. No matter which you choose, you will get unrestricted access to our product.

Directus has 4 pricing editions. A free trial of Directus is also available. Look at different pricing editions below and see what edition and features meet your budget and needs.

Pricing information for Directus is supplied by the software provider or retrieved from publicly accessible pricing materials. Final cost negotiations to purchase Directus must be conducted with the seller.

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Pricing information was last updated on June 12, 2025

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Strapi Community	FreeWith One-Time Purchase	Open-Source under MIT License REST & GraphQL API Up to 3 default roles Highly Flexible Content Structure Powerful Content Management Infinite Customization Capabilities Unlimited Usage (Entries, API calls, Assets, etc.) Unlimited locales Community Support Show More
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Sanity Free forever	Free	For individuals experimenting or shipping smaller projects. 20 user seats included 2 datasets (public) Unlimited content types and locales Customizable content workspaces Hosted, real-time content database Live previews and visual editing tools Generous usage quota Show More

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Directus Pricing Reviews

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Chrystal F.

Sr. Director, Content Engineering

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/19/2024

"Directus is the GOAT"

5/5

What do you like best about Directus?

DIrectus thought of everything to make an extremely versatile tool! I have had the most amazing experience dealing with the team, they've supported us through and through and offered a product that is literally a blank slate for any use case, but with the bells & whistles unmatched by other products out there on the market for a fraction of the cost. I love using the data model, the flows, and of course the flexibility of extensions and configurations of not only the app but what it can power. We've been able to support almost anything our internal stakeholders can dream up which has levelled up our innovation and efficiency. Thank you, Directus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Directus?

The self-hosted install was a bit tricky to get setup but the incredible support team was able to get us through the issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

René S.

Senior Frontend Developer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/16/2025

"Beauty, simplicity and power - I love Directus!"

5/5

What do you like best about Directus?

In the end it is a minimalistic, but beautiful and very powerful UI for a database. The initial implementation/setup is quick and the customer support of Directus kick-starts you with a pretty decent base, based on your project requirements. But with features that can easily make it a fully-fledged CMS, as well. And much more when utilizing the many comunity-driven extensions available in the marketplace. With the "flows" feature it's very easy to add powerful automation and the development team behind Directus has the right mindset of abstraction for new features that gives you the maximum power to achieve even complex goals using the UI. As there is a wide range of SDKs and examples / starter kits available, integration in your application is easy, as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Directus?

If there was a free plan, or at least a very low cost plan that doesn't cost me more than USD 100 a year, Directus would be my preferred BaaS solution for my private projects, as well. I would wish for some features Directus lacks compared to other headless CMS providers, like shared data models across instances, branching and some other, but the Directus team also comes up with new features quickly and I have trust that Directus will become more and more powerful while maintaining high flexibility in the near future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.