# DatoCMS vs Directus (slim)

> DatoCMS scores 74.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Directus's 67.1 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Directus leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do cms content. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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DatoCMS scores 74.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Directus's 67.1 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Directus leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do cms content.

- DatoCMS: BB 74.4, rank #62 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/datocms.min.md
- Directus: B 67.1, rank #217 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus.min.md
- DatoCMS, good for Teams on DatoCMS who want an agent to create, translate and publish records, upload assets or change models, testing first in a sandbox environment. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 78 against 73; Security & auth, 77 against 68; Transparency & trust, 80 against 61. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card; No incidents deducted, where Directus loses 6 points for them.
- 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 Payments & pricing, 55 against 35; Maintenance & community, 86 against 81.

| Category | DatoCMS | Directus |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 82 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 73 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 77 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 55 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 81 | 86 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 80 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | DatoCMS | Directus |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Dato Srl | Monospace Inc. (Directus) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://site-api.datocms.com` | no (local only) |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Dato Srl's terms of service. The API clients in datocms/js-rest-api-clients and the CLI in datocms/cli 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 | 9 | 12 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-06-09 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 153k npm/wk | 38k stars, 23k npm/wk |