# Directus vs WordPress (slim)

> Directus scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against WordPress's 64.8 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. WordPress leads on payments & pricing and 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 WordPress's 64.8 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. WordPress leads on payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do cms content.

- Directus: B 67.1, rank #217 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/directus.min.md
- WordPress: B 64.8, rank #272 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wordpress.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 65; Security & auth, 68 against 62.
- WordPress, good for Sites that already run WordPress, where an agent drafts posts and uploads media under a Contributor or Author account and a person publishes. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 60 against 55; Transparency & trust, 68 against 61. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | Directus | WordPress |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 82 | 78 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 65 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 68 | 62 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 55 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 86 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Directus | WordPress |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Monospace Inc. (Directus) | WordPress.org (open-source project) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| 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 | GPL-2.0-or-later. The MCP Adapter plugin is GPL-2.0-or-later too |
| Tools exposed | 12 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-09 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 38k stars, 23k npm/wk | 21k stars |