🆚 Directus vs. Prismic

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📈 Prismic is much more popular than Directus.
🌍 Prismic is more popular in all countries.

Directus

Prismic

Type

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.

Prismic is a headless CMS and page builder for Next.js, Nuxt, and SvelteKit sites.

It offers Slices, which are reusable page sections defined in code and editable via a visual page builder, along with localization, version history, REST and GraphQL APIs, live previews, scheduled content releases, a built-in media library, and image optimization.

Headquarters

New York, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

directus.io #167,129

prismic.io #18,827

Pricing

Self-HostedFree version ✔️For organizations with < $5M in total annual income, open source
Production LicenseCustom

CloudStarter
(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 version ✔️

Medium$180/month

Platinum$750/month

EnterpriseCustom