🆚 Directus vs. Sanity

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Sanity is much more popular than Directus.
🌎 Sanity is more popular in the United States, Norway, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Directus is more popular in Chile.

Directus

Sanity

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.

Sanity is a cloud-based headless CMS that stores content as structured data in a hosted content lake and delivers it via APIs to any frontend.

It features a customizable open-source editing Studio built with React, real-time collaboration support, its own query language for JSON called GROQ (Graph-Relational Object Queries) alongside GraphQL, an asset pipeline with image transformations, versioning, localization, and enterprise capabilities such as SSO and role-based access.

Headquarters

New York, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

directus.io #167,129

sanity.io #10,660

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 ✔️

Growth$15/seat/month

EnterpriseCustom