Directus License

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

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.

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.

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

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.

What do you like best about the product?

We've had a great experience using Directus as a tool—it has proven to be highly flexible and intuitive. One of the standout aspects is its support for a wide range of use cases, whether we need to structure data for internal tools or build custom workflows. The platform offers excellent support, both through documentation and community channels, which has made troubleshooting and learning straightforward.

What we especially appreciate is the flexibility in tailoring the data model to fit our exact needs without requiring heavy backend customization. It allows for rapid iteration and empowers both technical and non-technical team members to collaborate effectively.

Overall, Directus has become a valuable part of our stack thanks to its balance of structure and freedom.

What do you dislike about the product?

The search is kept even when refreshing the screen

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Headless CMS

What do you like best about the product?

Directus offers a highly intuitive interface backed by a strong API-first approach. I appreciate how easy it is to create relational collections, manage permissions, and integrate with modern frontend frameworks like Vue. The roles and permission system is one of the most flexible I’ve seen, allowing for granular control of data access. I also love that it works on top of an existing SQL database without locking you in.

What do you dislike about the product?

While Directus is powerful, the documentation could be more thorough, especially for advanced use cases and self-hosting with Docker. Some features like workflows or relational filters need further refinement. The system can occasionally feel too technical for non-developers despite its clean UI.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Directus solves the problem of managing complex relational data without locking you into a proprietary system. It allows me to build flexible, scalable backends quickly while keeping full control over my database, which speeds up development and simplifies content management.

What do you like best about the product?

The configurability and ease at which you can make new collections and define exactly how you want the data to display is amazing.

What do you dislike about the product?

So far there is a very few things and any issuer I have had, their support has solved.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The complete CMS backend for all of Meow Wolf, our app, in exhibition content and so much more.

What do you like best about the product?

Directus is incredibly flexible and integrates perfectly into our tech stack. One standout feature is how easy it is to build and deploy custom extensions (especially with VueJS and TypeScript) which allows us to tailor the UI and functionality to specific workflows and use cases.

Flows are another highlight. We’ve automated many backend processes without needing additional services or infrastructure. From simple field updates to complex branching logic, the visual Flow builder is intuitive and powerful, saving us countless hours of development and maintenance time.

Using the cloud version means we don’t worry about infrastructure, while still retaining full control over data structures, roles, and permissions. The API-first approach makes frontend integration seamless.

What do you dislike about the product?

One pain point is syncing changes between environments. Schema and Flow migration from staging to production still requires a lot of manual effort.
Additionally, while Flows are powerful, debugging can be tricky due to limited visibility into execution logs.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We previously lacked a unified, user-friendly system for managing media and web content across our internal teams. Directus solves this by centralizing our media library that is now now directly managed by the UI team, eliminating the need for custom admin tools. It also simplifies multilingual content management through automated translation workflows.
Managing access for multiple teams used to be chaotic; with Directus, we’ve set up fine-grained roles and permissions across six teams, reducing human error and support overhead. Also the REST API provides seamless integration with our Nuxt frontend, enabling us to ship dynamic, content-rich features faster and with minimal backend development.

What do you like best about the product?

The data studio is easy to use and works really well on mobile which is an underrated feature.

Directus offers great digital asset management features, data model and backend-as-a-service features, and CMS features. It's very flexible, so businesses can tailor to the use cases they have.

At Destify, we're looking to first use Digital Asset Management capabilities to deliver world-class image optimization for our galleries and carousel images.

We also hope to use it for hotel and room metadata, eliminating a home-spun admin system to do the same. It will provide easy REST and GraphQL access to pull the fields we want.

The RBAC scoping is top-notch and that's a difficult thing to do!

I can't say enough good things about this product, explore it for any use cases you have for low-code, BaaS, CMS, or DAM usage.

What do you dislike about the product?

Consider the cloud offering ramping up in price when you scale to meet that growth. A generous free tier of users and/or request quota would be better than a row limit. It's difficult for Team Leads to know just how big Directus will get because it has so many use cases.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Low-code backend-as-a-service and database management as well as digital asset management