# Contentstack vs Directus (slim)

> Directus scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Contentstack's 64 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Contentstack leads on transparency & trust. Both do cms content. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Directus scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Contentstack's 64 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Contentstack leads on transparency & trust. Both do cms content.

- Contentstack: B 64, rank #288 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/contentstack.min.md
- Directus: B 67.1, rank #217 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus.min.md
- Contentstack, good for Teams already on Contentstack, or starting on its free plan, who want an agent to draft, localise, release and publish structured content with scoped credentials and an audit trail. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 73 against 61. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine; 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 Reliability, 82 against 71; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 67; Payments & pricing, 55 against 30.

| Category | Contentstack | Directus |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 71 | 82 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 73 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 69 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 55 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 86 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 73 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Contentstack | Directus |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Contentstack Inc. | Monospace Inc. (Directus) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.contentstack.io` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Contentstack's Master Agreement and Terms of Service. The OpenAPI files, the management SDKs, the CLI and the @contentstack/mcp package 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 | 206 | 12 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-22 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2022-08-01 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-30 | 2026-06-09 |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 44k npm/wk, 1.5k PyPI/wk | 38k stars, 23k npm/wk |