# Directus vs Storyblok (slim)

> Storyblok and Directus score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.7 (B) and 67.1 (B). Directus leads on schema & documentation, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do cms content. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Storyblok and Directus score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 67.7 (B) and 67.1 (B). Directus leads on schema & documentation, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do cms content.

- Directus: B 67.1, rank #217 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus.min.md
- Storyblok: B 67.7, rank #202 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/storyblok.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 68; Payments & pricing, 55 against 35; Maintenance & community, 86 against 80.
- Storyblok, good for Teams already on Storyblok who want an agent to draft, translate and publish stories or change component schemas under scoped, per-space permissions. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 78 against 73; Security & auth, 73 against 68; Transparency & trust, 80 against 61. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Directus | Storyblok |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 82 | 79 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 68 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 73 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 55 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 86 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 80 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Directus | Storyblok |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Monospace Inc. (Directus) | Storyblok GmbH |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mapi.storyblok.com/v1` |
| 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 Storyblok's terms. The SDKs, API clients and CLI in storyblok/monoblok are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 12 | 7 |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-09 | 2025-10-06 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 38k stars, 23k npm/wk | 68 stars, 433k npm/wk |