# Directus vs Sanity (slim)

> 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 & pricing. Both do cms content. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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 & pricing. Both do cms content.

- Directus: B 67.1, rank #217 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus.min.md
- Sanity: BB 73.7, rank #73 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sanity.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 Reliability, 82 against 77; Payments & pricing, 55 against 40.
- Sanity, good 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. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 87 against 81; Transparency & 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.

| Category | Directus | Sanity |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 82 | 77 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 55 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 86 | 89 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 87 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Directus | Sanity |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Monospace Inc. (Directus) | Sanity US Inc. and Sanity AS |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.sanity.io` |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | 12 | 53 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.sanity.www/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-02 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-09 | no date given |
| Popularity | 38k stars, 23k npm/wk | 6.4k stars, 4.1M npm/wk |