🆚 Builder.io vs. Directus
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Builder.io is five times more popular than Directus.
- 🌎 Builder.io is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Directus is more popular in France, Spain, and Russia.
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About
Builder.io is a visual development platform and headless CMS that lets teams create, edit, and publish websites and applications with drag-and-drop editors, integrated with React, Vue, Svelte, Qwik, and other frameworks.
It supports importing designs from Figma, registering custom components, exposing structured data models, and includes scheduling, versioning, content targeting, and enterprise features such as roles and permissions.
Directus is an open-source headless CMS and data platform that lets developers build APIs from custom SQL data models while providing non-technical users with a friendly admin interface to manage structured content.
It automatically generates REST and GraphQL endpoints from the database schema, supports multiple SQL databases, and offers role-based access control, field-level permissions, versioning, workflows, asset management, real-time previews, and custom dashboards.
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Pricing
(Visual IDE)
(500 Agent Credits)$30/user/month
(Visual CMS)
(500 Agent Credits)$49/user/month
(1 user, 5K DB entries)$180/year
(5 users, 75K DB entries)$1,188/year
(10 users, 250K DB entries)$1,188/year
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Awards
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Australia in the Website Builders category.
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in the United States in the Website Builders category.
- ⬆️ 35th most popular in Australia in the CMS category.
- ⬆️ 36th most popular in Germany in the Website Builders category.
- ⬆️ 43rd most popular in the United States in the CMS category.
- ⬆️ 113rd most popular in the United States in the CMS category.
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