🆚 Directus vs. Sanity
- 📈 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.
SanityType
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
Pricing
(1 user, 5K DB entries)$180/year
(5 users, 75K DB entries)$1,188/year
(10 users, 250K DB entries)$1,188/year
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⬆️ 108th most popular in the United States in the CMS category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Norway in the CMS category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Sweden in the CMS category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Denmark in the CMS category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in New Zealand in the CMS category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Finland in the CMS category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Amplience🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.