{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "directus", "name": "Directus", "vendor": "Monospace Inc. (Directus)", "vendorUrl": "https://directus.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "cms", "summary": "Directus is a source-available headless CMS and data platform that runs on an SQL database, self-hosted or on a paid cloud. Agents manage items, files and the data model through REST, GraphQL and a built-in MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/directus.json", "repo": "https://github.com/directus/directus", "license": "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", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "directus" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@directus/sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@directus/specs" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve on your own instance, with no app review or partner approval. The MCP server at `/mcp` accepts OAuth (PKCE, with dynamic client registration or client ID metadata documents, both off by default) and issues a token with the `mcp:access` scope that works only on the MCP endpoint. REST, GraphQL and MCP also accept a static token, one per user, which doesn't expire and is sent as `Authorization: Bearer` or as `?access_token=` in the URL. Log-in tokens are short-lived with a refresh token. Every credential acts with its user's access policies, down to collection, action, field and item rule.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The Core tier is free to self-host with 3 Studio seats, 25 collections and 5 flows, with no card, account or contract, so an agent can start at once. Team is $499 a month on an annual term or $599 monthly, Enterprise is priced by sales, and Directus Cloud hosting is a $99 a month add-on with a 14-day trial. The Open Innovation Grant lifts the limits for organisations under $5M revenue and 50 employees (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$499 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs index, the pricing page or the repository's MCP source (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 12, "popularity": { "githubStars": 38295, "npmWeekly": 22588, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://directus.com/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://directus.com/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://github.com/directus/directus/blob/main/packages/specs/src/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "cms.content", "cms.schema", "cms.assets", "cms.publish", "cms.localisation" ], "tags": [ "source-available", "self-hosted", "hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "graphql", "typescript", "sql", "status-page", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67.1, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 217, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 86, "payments": 55, "reliability": 82, "schema": 81, "security": 68, "transparency": 61 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": -6, "negativeNotes": [ "5 August 2026. Directus published GHSA-97xr-jchp-xm3c (critical, CVSS 9.2, no CVE). On versions before 12.1.0, a public WebSocket client could read, create, update or delete items in user collections after a failed authentication message. At least 20 advisories were published between 24 June and 2 September 2026, at least 11 rated high, among them SQL injection through geometry fields (GHSA-chfm-g7r3-vv42) and a TUS upload authorisation bypass (GHSA-xjxq-pj7h-g676). The critical fix shipped in 12.1.0 on 1 July, before publication, the vendor published every advisory itself, and none mentions exploitation, so we deduct 6 of a possible 15. https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories/GHSA-97xr-jchp-xm3c ; https://github.com/directus/directus/security/advisories" ], "verdict": "The built-in MCP server works under the connecting user's permissions, supports OAuth limited to the MCP endpoint and blocks deletes unless an administrator allows them. Since version 12 a licence check caps the free Core tier at 3 Studio seats, 25 collections and 5 flows, and the default tool list carries about 79 KB of instructions.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "MCP OAuth with PKCE issues tokens with the `mcp:access` scope and the MCP endpoint as audience, and administrators can revoke registered clients", "Deletes through MCP are refused unless the Allow Deletes setting is on, and the MCP server itself is off by default", "Registry mode at `/mcp?tool_mode=registry` cuts the tool list to `search`, `execute` and `schema`", "Content versioning has REST endpoints to save, compare and promote a version, and revisions record each change", "Six tagged releases between 29 July and 7 October 2026, with breaking changes listed per version in the docs" ], "weaknesses": [ "Version 12 (10 June 2026) added licence enforcement. The free Core tier allows 3 Studio seats, 25 collections and 5 flows, and an instance over its limits is locked after a grace period", "The licence is MSCL-1.0-GPL, source-available and not OSI approved, with a ban on competing use and on bypassing the licence key", "Static tokens never expire, are stored in plain text in `directus_users`, and the MCP guide shows them in the URL as `?access_token=`", "Releases don't follow semantic versioning, and 12.1 to 12.5 each carried breaking changes", "At least 20 security advisories were published between June and September 2026, one rated critical and at least 11 rated high" ], "agentNotes": [ "Connect with OAuth or an `Authorization: Bearer` header. Don't put the token in the URL as `?access_token=`, where it can be logged", "Use `/mcp?tool_mode=registry` when the client loads every tool definition. Default mode sends each tool's full instructions, about 79 KB in total", "Read the `schema` tool before writing. Item payloads are untyped objects, so field names and types come only from the data model", "Publish a version with `POST /versions/{id}/promote` over REST. The MCP `items` tool refuses system collections such as `directus_versions`", "Count translation and junction tables against the 25-collection Core limit before creating collections" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 67.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 86, "payments": 55, "reliability": 82, "schema": 81, "security": 68, "transparency": 55 }, "provenanceScore": 66 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @directus/sdk", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http directus https://your-directus-url.com/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "directus": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer your-generated-token" }, "url": "https://your-directus-url.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/cms.content", "tool": "https://letme.dev/directus" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Core, self-hosted", "unit": "month", "usd": 0, "note": "3 Studio seats, 25 collections, 5 flows" }, { "item": "Team", "unit": "month", "usd": 499, "note": "annual term, or $599 billed monthly. 10 seats, 50 collections, 20 flows" }, { "item": "Team extra seat", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 50, "note": "Studio users only" }, { "item": "Directus Cloud hosting add-on", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "for Core, Team and Open Innovation Grant projects" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Monospace Inc. (doing business as Directus)", "domain": "directus.com", "domainRegistered": "1997-02-06", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://directus.com/license", "privacy": "https://directus.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.directus.cloud", "changelog": "https://github.com/directus/directus/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The privacy policy (last updated 9 June 2026) names Monospace Inc., doing business as Directus, a Delaware corporation, at 223 Bedford Ave STE A #855, Brooklyn, New York. The terms page, dated 28 April 2025, gives the same entity.", "`terms` points at the MSCL-1.0-GPL licence text, which governs a self-hosted install. directus.com/terms reads as website terms of use, and Directus Cloud has separate Cloud policies at directus.com/cloud-policies.", "The privacy policy says personal information processed for customers of the product is handled under customer agreements, not the policy. No public DPA was found.", "A self-hosted install answers on its owner's domain. It contacts licensing.directus.com when a licence key is set and telemetry.directus.io for usage reports.", "https://directus.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 8 October 2026. directus.io redirects to directus.com.", "RDAP for directus.com gives a registration date of 1997-02-06, which predates the company's use of the domain.", "The status page runs on Statuspage and covers Directus Cloud regions and the dashboard, not self-hosted installs." ], "score": 66 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus.json", "live": { "slug": "directus", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.directus.cloud", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:05:59.495414141Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:05:59.495414141Z" } }, "answer": "Sanity scores 73.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Directus's 67.1 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Directus leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "sanity", "name": "Sanity", "vendor": "Sanity US Inc. and Sanity AS", "vendorUrl": "https://www.sanity.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "cms", "summary": "Sanity is a hosted headless CMS. Content is stored as JSON documents in the Content Lake, queried with GROQ and edited in the open-source Sanity Studio. Agents reach it through the HTTP API or the hosted MCP server at mcp.sanity.io.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sanity", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sanity.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sanity.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sanity.json", "repo": "https://github.com/sanity-io/sanity", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under Sanity's terms of service. Sanity Studio, the CLI, `@sanity/client` and the agent toolkit on GitHub are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.sanity.io", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@sanity/client" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "sanity" }, { "registry": "packagist", "name": "sanity/sanity-php" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve. The HTTP API takes a Bearer token. Robot tokens are created in sanity.io/manage, with the CLI or through the Access API, carry a role (Viewer and Editor tokens on every plan), last until deleted unless given an expiry, and are shown once. Personal tokens last a year and act as the user. The MCP server at mcp.sanity.io uses OAuth with PKCE and dynamic client registration by default, with one scope named `global` and sessions of about 7 days, or accepts a token in the `Authorization` header. Custom roles that limit a token to a dataset or document type are Enterprise only. No app review or sales approval is needed.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan at $0 with no card, 20 seats, 10,000 documents, 250,000 API requests and 1 million API CDN requests a month, and hard caps that answer 402 when reached. Growth is $15 a seat a month with overage billed per unit. Enterprise is priced by sales. New projects get a Growth trial with Free plan quotas. An agent can start on the Free plan once a person has created the account (checked 2026-10-07).", "priceSummary": "$15 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the documentation (llms-full.txt) or on the pricing page (checked 2026-10-07).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 53, "popularity": { "githubStars": 6352, "npmWeekly": 4069926, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-07" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.sanity.io/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://www.sanity.io/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://www.sanity.io/docs/api/openapi", "registryName": "io.sanity.www/mcp", "capabilities": [ "cms.content", "cms.publish", "cms.assets", "cms.schema", "cms.localisation" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "headless-cms", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "groq", "graphql", "javascript", "php", "free-tier", "status-page", "soc2", "open-source-studio" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-02", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 73.7, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 73, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 89, "payments": 40, "reliability": 77, "schema": 87, "security": 67, "transparency": 87 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-07" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Sanity publishes 26 OpenAPI specs covering 225 operations, and its hosted MCP server saves edits to drafts or release versions, with publishing as a separate call. The Content Lake does not run schema validation on API writes, and custom roles that limit a token to one dataset or document type are sold only on Enterprise plans.", "bestFor": "Teams that model content as structured documents and want an agent to draft, patch and stage changes in releases for a person to publish.", "strengths": [ "26 public OpenAPI specs covering 225 operations at www.sanity.io/docs/api/openapi, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every documentation page", "MCP `patch_documents` saves to a draft or release version, never to published content, and `publish_documents` is a separate tool", "Mutations and actions accept `dryRun`, a caller-set `transactionId` and `ifRevisionID` for optimistic locking", "Free plan with 10,000 documents and 250,000 API requests a month, with Growth overage rates published per unit", "MCP server listed in the official MCP registry as io.sanity.www/mcp, with 30 versions published there between 15 July and 2 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "Schema validation rules run only in Sanity Studio. The HTTP mutation API accepts a document without checking them", "Custom roles scoped to a dataset or document type are an Enterprise feature. Robot tokens on other plans take a built-in role across the project", "The MCP OAuth server lists one scope, `global`, and the server documents 53 tools with no toolset or read-only mode", "A status incident on 22 July 2026, marked major on api.sanity.io, stayed open for 6 hours 20 minutes with two recurrences", "The vulnerability disclosure page says the bug bounty pilot has closed and no rewards are paid" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pin a static dated version in every URL, such as `v2025-02-19`. Omitting `apiVersion` in `@sanity/client` falls back to `v1`.", "Validate documents against the schema yourself before an HTTP write, or run `sanity documents validate` afterwards. The Content Lake does not enforce schema rules.", "Back off on 429 for mutations yourself. `@sanity/client` retries queries five times but never retries mutations. The limit is 25 mutations a second per IP.", "Over MCP, call `create_version` before `patch_documents` when editing inside a release, then patch the returned version ID with the same `releaseId`.", "Use GROQ projections and slices to size results. MCP query responses are limited to 64 KiB, and a blocked Free project answers 402 with `plan_limit_reached`." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 73.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 89, "payments": 40, "reliability": 77, "schema": 87, "security": 67, "transparency": 79 }, "provenanceScore": 95 }, "connect": { "install": "npx sanity@latest mcp configure", "http": "curl -H \"Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e\" \"https://\u003cproject\u003e.api.sanity.io/v2021-06-07/data/query/production?query=*\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add Sanity -t http https://mcp.sanity.io --scope user", "config": { "mcpServers": { "Sanity": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.sanity.io" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/cms.content", "tool": "https://letme.dev/sanity" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Growth", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 15, "note": "up to 50 seats" }, { "item": "API requests over quota (Growth)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.04, "note": "$1 per 25,000, after 250,000 a month included" }, { "item": "API CDN requests over quota (Growth)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.004, "note": "$1 per 250,000, after 1 million a month included" }, { "item": "Bandwidth over quota (Growth)", "unit": "gb", "usd": 0.3, "note": "after 100 GB a month included" }, { "item": "Increased quota add-on (Growth)", "unit": "month", "usd": 299, "note": "50,000 documents, 1 million API requests, 5 million API CDN requests" }, { "item": "Extra dataset (Growth)", "unit": "month", "usd": 999, "note": "per dataset" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Sanity US Inc. (with Sanity AS)", "domain": "sanity.io", "domainRegistered": "2015-01-07", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.sanity.io/legal/tos", "privacy": "https://www.sanity.io/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://www.sanity-status.com", "changelog": "https://www.sanity.io/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-07", "notes": [ "The terms of service dated 12 August 2026 are entered into with Sanity US Inc. The privacy policy dated 4 May 2026 is that of Sanity AS and Sanity US Inc. Growth has its own terms at sanity.io/legal/tos-growth, dated 26 March 2026.", "The API answers at https://\u003cprojectId\u003e.api.sanity.io and https://api.sanity.io, and the MCP server at https://mcp.sanity.io.", "www.sanity.io/.well-known/security.txt names security@sanity.io and the disclosure policy at sanity.io/responsible-disclosure, and has no Expires field.", "status.sanity.io answers with the same Statuspage as www.sanity-status.com.", "RDAP for sanity.io gives a registration date of 2015-01-07." ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sanity.json", "live": { "slug": "sanity", "probe": { "target": "https://api.sanity.io", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:20.810060738Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 47, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 36, "p95ms24h": 81, "samples24h": 64, "samples30d": 64, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 64, "ok": 64 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.sanity-status.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:06:25.353474741Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "sanity-io/sanity", "version": "v6.18.0", "released": "2026-10-06", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:28:11.279439468Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@sanity/client", "version": "8.9.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:28:08.05519452Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "sanity", "version": "6.18.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:28:09.308419229Z" } ], "githubStars": 6352, "npmWeekly": 4069926, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://sanity.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:50.777207368Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.sanity.io/docs/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:11.065534137Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "906020038702" }, { "url": "https://www.sanity.io/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:14.320679574Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "f0a780309f28" }, { "url": "https://www.sanity.io/legal/tos", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:15.452818667Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "68f22ec5d44d" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:20.810060738Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Monospace Inc. (Directus)", "b": "Sanity US Inc. and Sanity AS", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.sanity.io", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "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", "b": "Proprietary hosted service under Sanity's terms of service. Sanity Studio, the CLI, `@sanity/client` and the agent toolkit on GitHub are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "12", "b": "53", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "io.sanity.www/mcp", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-10-07", "b": "2026-10-02", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-06-09", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "38k stars, 23k npm/wk", "b": "6.4k stars, 4.1M npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Sanity scores 73.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Directus's 67.1 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Directus leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Directus or Sanity?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Directus and Sanity need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Directus. Sanity has a hosted endpoint at https://api.sanity.io.", "question": "Can an agent call Directus and Sanity without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 82 against 77", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 55 against 40" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "directus", "watchFor": "Version 12 (10 June 2026) added licence enforcement. The free Core tier allows 3 Studio seats, 25 collections and 5 flows, and an instance over its limits is locked after a grace period" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 81", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 87 against 61" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "No incidents deducted, where Directus loses 6 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Teams that model content as structured documents and want an agent to draft, patch and stage changes in releases for a person to publish.", "slug": "sanity", "watchFor": "Schema validation rules run only in Sanity Studio. The HTTP mutation API accepts a document without checking them" } ], "job": { "capability": "cms.content", "name": "Cms content" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/contentstack-vs-directus.json", "title": "Contentstack vs Directus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/contentstack-vs-directus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/contentstack-vs-sanity.json", "title": "Contentstack vs Sanity", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/contentstack-vs-sanity" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-directus.json", "title": "DatoCMS vs Directus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-directus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-sanity.json", "title": "DatoCMS vs Sanity", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/datocms-vs-sanity" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-ghost.json", "title": "Directus vs Ghost", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-ghost" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-payload.json", "title": "Directus vs Payload", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-payload" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-storyblok.json", "title": "Directus vs Storyblok", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-storyblok" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-strapi.json", "title": "Directus vs Strapi", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-strapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-webflow.json", "title": "Directus vs Webflow", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-webflow" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-wordpress.json", "title": "Directus vs WordPress", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-wordpress" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-vs-sanity.json", "title": "Ghost vs Sanity", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ghost-vs-sanity" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/payload-vs-sanity.json", "title": "Payload vs Sanity", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/payload-vs-sanity" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sanity-vs-storyblok.json", "title": "Sanity vs Storyblok", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sanity-vs-storyblok" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sanity-vs-strapi.json", "title": "Sanity vs Strapi", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sanity-vs-strapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sanity-vs-webflow.json", "title": "Sanity vs Webflow", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sanity-vs-webflow" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sanity-vs-wordpress.json", "title": "Sanity vs WordPress", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sanity-vs-wordpress" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 5, "directus": 82, "edge": "directus", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "sanity": 77, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 6, "directus": 81, "edge": "sanity", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "sanity": 87, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 1, "directus": 73, "edge": "sanity", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "sanity": 74, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 1, "directus": 68, "edge": "directus", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "sanity": 67, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 15, "directus": 55, "edge": "directus", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "sanity": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 3, "directus": 86, "edge": "sanity", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "sanity": 89, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 26, "directus": 61, "edge": "sanity", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "sanity": 87, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Sanity scores 73.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Directus's 67.1 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Directus leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do cms content.", "verdicts": { "directus": "The built-in MCP server works under the connecting user's permissions, supports OAuth limited to the MCP endpoint and blocks deletes unless an administrator allows them. Since version 12 a licence check caps the free Core tier at 3 Studio seats, 25 collections and 5 flows, and the default tool list carries about 79 KB of instructions.", "sanity": "Sanity publishes 26 OpenAPI specs covering 225 operations, and its hosted MCP server saves edits to drafts or release versions, with publishing as a separate call. The Content Lake does not run schema validation on API writes, and custom roles that limit a token to one dataset or document type are sold only on Enterprise plans." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-sanity", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-sanity.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-sanity.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-sanity.min.md" }, "markdown": "Sanity scores 73.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Directus's 67.1 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Directus leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do cms content.\n\n- Directus: grade B, 67.1/100, rank #217 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/directus.json\n- Sanity: grade BB, 73.7/100, rank #73 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sanity.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sanity.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Directus (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 82 against 77\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 55 against 40\n\nWatch for: Version 12 (10 June 2026) added licence enforcement. The free Core tier allows 3 Studio seats, 25 collections and 5 flows, and an instance over its limits is locked after a grace period\n\n### Sanity (BB)\n\nGood for: Teams that model content as structured documents and want an agent to draft, patch and stage changes in releases for a person to publish.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 81\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 87 against 61\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- No incidents deducted, where Directus loses 6 points for them\n\nWatch for: Schema validation rules run only in Sanity Studio. The HTTP mutation API accepts a document without checking them\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Directus | Sanity | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 82 | 77 | Directus +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 87 | Sanity +6 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 74 | Sanity +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 67 | Directus +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 55 | 40 | Directus +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 86 | 89 | Sanity +3 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 87 | Sanity +26 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -6 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **67.1 · B** | **73.7 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Directus | Sanity |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Monospace Inc. (Directus) | Sanity US Inc. and Sanity AS |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.sanity.io` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| 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 hosted service under Sanity's terms of service. Sanity Studio, the CLI, `@sanity/client` and the agent toolkit on GitHub are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 12 | 53 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.sanity.www/mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-02 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-09 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 38k stars, 23k npm/wk | 6.4k stars, 4.1M npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Directus.** The built-in MCP server works under the connecting user's permissions, supports OAuth limited to the MCP endpoint and blocks deletes unless an administrator allows them. Since version 12 a licence check caps the free Core tier at 3 Studio seats, 25 collections and 5 flows, and the default tool list carries about 79 KB of instructions.\n\n**Sanity.** Sanity publishes 26 OpenAPI specs covering 225 operations, and its hosted MCP server saves edits to drafts or release versions, with publishing as a separate call. The Content Lake does not run schema validation on API writes, and custom roles that limit a token to one dataset or document type are sold only on Enterprise plans.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Directus\n\n1. Connect with OAuth or an `Authorization: Bearer` header. Don't put the token in the URL as `?access_token=`, where it can be logged\n2. Use `/mcp?tool_mode=registry` when the client loads every tool definition. Default mode sends each tool's full instructions, about 79 KB in total\n3. Read the `schema` tool before writing. Item payloads are untyped objects, so field names and types come only from the data model\n4. Publish a version with `POST /versions/{id}/promote` over REST. The MCP `items` tool refuses system collections such as `directus_versions`\n5. Count translation and junction tables against the 25-collection Core limit before creating collections\n\n### Sanity\n\n1. Pin a static dated version in every URL, such as `v2025-02-19`. Omitting `apiVersion` in `@sanity/client` falls back to `v1`.\n2. Validate documents against the schema yourself before an HTTP write, or run `sanity documents validate` afterwards. The Content Lake does not enforce schema rules.\n3. Back off on 429 for mutations yourself. `@sanity/client` retries queries five times but never retries mutations. The limit is 25 mutations a second per IP.\n4. Over MCP, call `create_version` before `patch_documents` when editing inside a release, then patch the returned version ID with the same `releaseId`.\n5. Use GROQ projections and slices to size results. MCP query responses are limited to 64 KiB, and a blocked Free project answers 402 with `plan_limit_reached`.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Directus or Sanity?\n\nSanity scores 73.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Directus's 67.1 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Directus leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Directus and Sanity need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Directus and Sanity without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Directus. Sanity has a hosted endpoint at https://api.sanity.io.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-sanity.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/directus-vs-sanity.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"directus\", \"b\": \"sanity\"}`. 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