# Directus vs Strapi (slim)

> Directus scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Strapi's 65.7 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Strapi 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 Strapi's 65.7 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Strapi leads on transparency & trust. Both do cms content.

- Directus: B 67.1, rank #217 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus.min.md
- Strapi: B 65.7, rank #252 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/strapi.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 Agent ergonomics, 73 against 65; Payments & pricing, 55 against 50.
- Strapi, good for Teams that want to own their CMS and let an agent draft, localise and publish entries under a narrow token. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 72 against 61. Also Open source.

| Category | Directus | Strapi |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 82 | 82 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 55 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 86 | 87 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Directus | Strapi |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Monospace Inc. (Directus) | Strapi, Inc. |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| 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 | MIT for the Community Edition. Code under ee/ directories is under Strapi's Enterprise Edition licence, and Strapi Cloud is a paid service under its own terms |
| Tools exposed | 12 | none |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-10-07 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-09 | 2023-03-01 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 38k stars, 23k npm/wk | 73k stars, 259k npm/wk |