# ButterCMS vs Directus (slim)

> Directus scores 67.1 (B) to ButterCMS's 53.3 (D) for content management. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buttercms-vs-directus.md (~2,450 tokens) · this version ~630 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buttercms-vs-directus.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/buttercms-vs-directus
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-09

Directus scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against ButterCMS's 53.3 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do content management.

- ButterCMS: D 53.3, rank #711 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/buttercms.min.md
- Directus: B 67.1, rank #263 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus.min.md
- ButterCMS, good for A team already on a paid ButterCMS plan that wants an agent to draft and publish pages, collection items and blog posts in small volumes. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.
- Directus, good for Teams that already keep content in an SQL database and want an agent to edit items, files and the data model under a named user's permissions. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 73 against 64; Security & auth, 68 against 36; Payments & pricing, 55 against 20; Maintenance & community, 86 against 27; Transparency & trust, 61 against 51.

| Category | ButterCMS | Directus |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 83 | 82 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 64 | 73 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 36 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 55 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 27 | 86 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 51 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ButterCMS | Directus |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | ButterCMS LLC | Monospace Inc. (Directus) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.buttercms.com/v2` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Licence | Proprietary service under ButterCMS's terms of service. The SDKs and starter projects on GitHub are MIT | MSCL-1.0-GPL (Monospace Sustainable Core Licence 1.0), source-available with a licence key for paid tiers, each version converting to GPL-3.0 after four years. `@directus/sdk` is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 12 |
| Last release | 2025-09-04 | 2026-10-07 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2022-08-15 | 2026-06-09 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 6.9k npm/wk | 38k stars, 23k npm/wk |