# Directus vs Kontent.ai (slim)

> Kontent.ai scores 70.5 (BB) to Directus's 67.1 (B) for content management. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Kontent.ai scores 70.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Directus's 67.1 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Directus leads on schema & documentation and payments & pricing. Both do content management.

- Directus: B 67.1, rank #263 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus.min.md
- Kontent.ai: BB 70.5, rank #153 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kontent-ai.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 Schema & documentation, 81 against 74; Payments & pricing, 55 against 20.
- Kontent.ai, good for A company already on Kontent.ai, or evaluating it on a trial, that wants an agent to draft, localise, move through workflow and publish structured content with a permission-limited key and an audit trail. Ahead on Security & auth, 81 against 68; Transparency & trust, 75 against 61. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card; No incidents deducted, where Directus loses 6 points for them.

| Category | Directus | Kontent.ai |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 82 | 82 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 74 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 71 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 81 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 55 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 86 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Directus | Kontent.ai |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Monospace Inc. (Directus) | Kontent CZ s.r.o. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://manage.kontent.ai/v2` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| 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 the Kontent.ai Terms of Service. The management SDKs for JavaScript and .NET and the MCP server on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 12 | 54 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.kontent-ai/mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-09-11 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-09 | 2025-06-02 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 38k stars, 23k npm/wk | 8.4k npm/wk |