# Directus vs Hygraph (slim)

> Hygraph scores 69.3 (B) on agent readiness against Directus's 67.1 (B), and leads in 1 of 7 scored categories. Directus leads on security & auth, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do cms content. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Hygraph scores 69.3 (B) on agent readiness against Directus's 67.1 (B), and leads in 1 of 7 scored categories. Directus leads on security & auth, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do cms content.

- Directus: B 67.1, rank #244 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus.min.md
- Hygraph: B 69.3, rank #182 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hygraph.min.md
- 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 Security & auth, 68 against 63; Payments & pricing, 55 against 35; Maintenance & community, 86 against 74.
- Hygraph, good for Teams on Hygraph who want an agent to create, localise and publish entries, upload assets or change schema, with delete and unpublish kept out of reach on MCP. Ahead on Reliability, 89 against 82. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card; No incidents deducted, where Directus loses 6 points for them.

| Category | Directus | Hygraph |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 82 | 89 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 63 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 55 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 86 | 74 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 60 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Directus | Hygraph |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Monospace Inc. (Directus) | Hygraph GmbH |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.hygraph.com/mcp` |
| Licence | 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 | Proprietary service under Hygraph GmbH's Terms of Service. The `@hygraph/management-sdk` package is MIT |
| Tools exposed | 12 | 17 |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-09 | no date given |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 38k stars, 23k npm/wk | 52 stars, 8.6k npm/wk |