How much does Directus cost?

Directus publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Community up to $25/monthly for Cloud. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does Directus have a free plan?

Yes. The Community tier costs nothing and covers self-hosted directus, community support. Paying starts at $25/monthly for Cloud.

What is the difference between Community and Cloud on Directus?

Cloud costs $25/monthly against Free, and adds managed cloud, automatic updates, backups.

Does Directus charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Directus prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Directus against before paying?

Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Directus to make a useful price comparison.

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Directus pricing

Directus publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: Free
Model: Open-source
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Directus plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Directus pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Community	Free	2	Entry tier
Cloud	$25/monthly	3	+$25/monthly, 3 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Community

Free

The entry tier. It covers self-hosted directus, community support.

Cloud

$25/monthly

Over Community, this tier adds:

Managed cloud
Automatic updates
Backups

Where Directus stops being free

Community, Free

Self-hosted Directus
Community support

Cloud, $25/monthly

The first thing you pay for:

Managed cloud
Automatic updates
Backups

What the product covers

The full Directus feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Core

REST API
GraphQL API
Database management

Integrations

PostgreSQL
MySQL
SQLite
Webhooks

Platform

Node.js support
Cloud support
Self-hosted support
Docker support

People bring Directus in for wrapping an existing sql database in a rest and graphql api with an admin interface, running a self hosted headless cms over a schema you already own. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Directus are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

Before you pay for Directus

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $25/monthly, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Directus runs on node.js, cloud, self-hosted, docker, and is published by Directus of New York, USA. The full record is on the Directus review.

Directus pricing on the vendor's own site