# Directus vs Prismic (slim)

> Directus scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Prismic's 61.9 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Prismic 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 Prismic's 61.9 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Prismic leads on transparency & trust. Both do cms content.

- Directus: B 67.1, rank #244 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus.min.md
- Prismic: C 61.9, rank #410 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prismic.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 60; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 63; Security & auth, 68 against 50; Payments & pricing, 55 against 35; Maintenance & community, 86 against 79.
- Prismic, good for Teams already on Prismic who want an agent to bulk-edit, localise or migrate pages into releases for human review. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 72 against 61. 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 | Prismic |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 82 | 78 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 60 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 50 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 55 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 86 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Directus | Prismic |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Monospace Inc. (Directus) | Prismic.io Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.prismic.io/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 Prismic's Master Services Agreement. The JavaScript clients, the CLI and the agent skill on GitHub are Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 12 | 16 |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2025-12-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-09 | 2026-04-08 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 38k stars, 23k npm/wk | 177 stars, 237k npm/wk |