🆚 Directus vs. Piranha CMS

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Content management system
Content management system

About

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.

Piranha CMS is an editor-focused content management system for ASP.NET Core that can be used as an integrated CMS or as a headless API to serve structured content to websites and applications.

It features a responsive Bootstrap-based UI, Vue.js-powered admin interface with a block-style editor and live preview, modular extensibility with customizable pages and blocks, and image and media management.

Headquarters

New York, United States
Västerås, Sweden

Website

Pricing

Self-Hosted
Free version ✔️For organizations with < $5M in total annual income, open source
Production LicenseCustom
Cloud
Starter
(1 user, 5K DB entries)
$180/year
Professional
(5 users, 75K DB entries)
$1,188/year
Business
(10 users, 250K DB entries)
$1,188/year
EnterpriseCustom
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

CMS › Rank #116
CMS › Rank #208

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Directus CMS is 4 times more popular than Piranha CMS.
Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Directus is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Piranha CMS is more popular in Brazil, Sweden, and Turkey.
United States
Australia
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Canada
Netherlands
Russia
Spain
Brazil

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Directus is more popular than Piranha CMS in all market segments.
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Sports
Real Estate
Entertainment
Software/Hardware
Online Shopping
Politics/Opinion
Finance/Banking

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#8,547
#28,828
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Rank
#162,603
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See also

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