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Directus wraps any SQL database with instant REST and GraphQL APIs, a native MCP server, and a visual studio your whole team can use. Bring your own database, connect it in minutes, and get a production-ready backend with role-based access control down to the field level. Your data, your rules, no lock-in.
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Overview
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Flexible Data Modeling
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AI-Powered Data Assistant
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Enterprise AI Integration
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Granular Access Control
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Visual Workflow Automation
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Insights
Directus: The Collaborative Backend for Applications and AI
Most backends are a black box. Developers build and maintain them. Everyone else files tickets and waits. Directus changes that.
Connect any SQL database and Directus instantly wraps it with production-ready REST and GraphQL APIs, a native MCP server for AI agents and tools, and a visual Studio your whole team can work in directly. Developers stay in control. Content teams, PMs, and business users stop waiting on engineering. AI agents operate on your live data with the same access policies as your human users.
What you get out of the box:
Instant REST and GraphQL APIs from any SQL database (Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL, SQLite, and more)
Native MCP server so any AI tool or agent can connect directly to your data
Visual Studio for non-technical teams to manage content, run workflows, and build dashboards
Role-based access control down to the field level
Built-in automation engine for workflow orchestration
Asset management with on-the-fly image transformations
Extensible with custom endpoints, hooks, interfaces, and modules
Your data, your infrastructure, your rules. Directus runs on your AWS environment. You bring the database, you own the data, and nothing moves to a third-party platform. Governance is built in, not bolted on.
45 million downloads. 35,000+ GitHub stars. Trusted by teams at Tripadvisor, Weber, Copa Airlines, and thousands more.
Highlights
- Instant backend from any SQL database<br><br>Connect Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL, or SQLite and get production-ready REST and GraphQL APIs automatically. No boilerplate, no custom API code. A visual Studio lets your whole team manage content and data directly, without filing tickets or waiting on engineering.
- Built for AI agents and MCP workflows<br><br>Directus ships with a native MCP server, so any AI tool or agent can connect to your live data out of the box. Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, custom agents. They all operate under the same role-based access policies as your human users. AI that works with your data, not a copy of it.
- Your infrastructure, your rules<br><br>Runs entirely on your AWS environment. You bring the database, you own the data. Granular access control down to the field level, a built-in automation engine, and no lock-in to a proprietary data layer. Deploy it, extend it, and run it on your terms.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months | Overage cost |
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Software License | Team Software License
Includes: 10 SSO Seats, 50 Collections, 20 Flows | $5,988.00 | - |
Cloud Hosting | Cloud Hosting | $1,068.00 |
Dimension | Description | Cost/unit |
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SEATS | Seat (SSO) | $600.00 |
COLLECTIONS | Collections (packs of 25 above included allowance) | $1,200.00 |
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Customer reviews
Yariv E.
Works Great with LLMs, Backed by a Great Team
Reviewed on Jul 07, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
works great with LLM. Great team behind it.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a bit too pricey the jump between price tiers
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
headless cms. We wanted to build on a string foundation
Christos D.
Directus: Flexible, Low-Code Way to Digitise Your Business
Reviewed on Apr 12, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Directus gives you the flexibility to digitise every aspect of your business with minimal development experience required.
What do you dislike about the product?
If it included app-building tools specifically for UIX, it would be perfect.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps me bring all my company’s data into one place, so everything is centralized and easier to manage.
Information Technology and Services
Directus Brings Flexible, Scalable Modeling for Complex Business Logic
Reviewed on Feb 20, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about Directus is the flexibility it offers to model complex and diverse business logic in a structured and scalable way.
What do you dislike about the product?
Expanding the available layout options for data input would improve usability and make content management more comfortable for editors.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Directus solves the problem of rigid and backend-heavy content management. It gives us the flexibility to model our business logic exactly as needed without building large parts of the backend ourselves. This significantly reduces development effort and allows us to focus more on frontend development and user experience. At the same time, it provides a much better and more intuitive editorial experience compared to our previous system, which will definitely increase efficiency for our content team.
Financial Services
Directus: A Scalable, Flexible, and Reliable CMS/BaaS for Projects of Any Size
Reviewed on Sep 03, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I have found Directus to be an outstanding platform that is scalable, flexible, and reliable. I first used it successfully for a startup multi-tenant SaaS product, and therefore had no hesitation in recommending its implementation at ColX Group, leveraging it as the primary CMS that powers our 4 brands websites.
What do you dislike about the product?
Directus is generally easy to use, though the JSON output can be a little difficult to work with at times, especially for complex relationships. Once understood and configured properly, however, it remains a very reliable and flexible solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Directus serves as the primary CMS powering all four of our group brand websites
Real Estate
Enterprise-ready headless CMS
Reviewed on Aug 08, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Directus has significantly sped up our team's development, particularly thanks to its built-in CRUD endpoints, authentication, storage, and a robust row-level and field-level permission system. We thoroughly enjoy Flows, which have proven incredibly powerful and reliable when building complex integrations. Additionally, we appreciate the ability to create custom endpoints, which have expanded the standard Directus and enabled seamless interaction with external systems. Given the size of our database, comprising over 400 tables, working with Directus has been a tremendous asset in efficiently managing and interacting with our data.
What do you dislike about the product?
Directus is continuously evolving based on the contributions of its community. This is a positive aspect, but it can also be problematic when dealing with a large codebase like ours. Often, introducing new features leads to breaking changes, requiring significant refactoring to maintain compatibility with the latest version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Directus has helped us significantly increase our speed by providing fast and easy access to data in our large database. Its out-of-the-box features allowed us to quickly develop the frontend without needing to focus on backend complexities for a while, enabling our team to move faster and be more productive.