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Directus vs. Sanity

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Directus
Score 9.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Directus is an Open Data Platform for managing the content of any SQL database. It provides an API layer (REST & GraphQL) for developers and a no-code App for non-technical users. Written entirely in JavaScript, Directus is open-source, modular, and extensible, allowing it to be fully tailored to a project's needs. Directus dynamically generates custom API endpoints based on an SQL database's schema in real-time — something the vendor states they call "
$0
per Project
Sanity
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Sanity from the company of the same name in San Francisco is a platform for structured content that comes with an open-source editing environment called Sanity Studio that users can customize with JavaScript and a real-time hosted data store.
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Pricing
DirectusSanity
Editions & Modules
Directus Open-Source
$0
per Project
Directus On-Demand Cloud
$49
per Project
Directus Enterprise Cloud
$499
per Project
Free
$0
Growth
$15
per month per seat
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
per month per seat
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DirectusSanity
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
DirectusSanity
Considered Both Products
Directus

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Sanity
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Anonymous
Chose Sanity
- There is no fear of hitting a limit and suddenly having to start paying 500$ per month when you have been using it for free for a while
- You don't have to worry about infrastructure because datasets are available as a service
- With an open-source UI based on React, you don't …
SS
Shivam Sharma
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
Chose Sanity
Pricing is better than graph cms. and easy to use the intuitive interface to write my blog.
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Small Businesses
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Score 6.2 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
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User Ratings
DirectusSanity
Likelihood to Recommend
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User Testimonials
DirectusSanity
Likelihood to Recommend
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Suited for - Headless CMS - when your blogs are less in number and you want to only work within free tier - when you only want to use their dedicated location to host your CMS Less appropriate - when you need to host your cms on your cloud
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Shivam Sharma
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
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Pros
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  • GraphQL support.
  • Nice Intuitive Web interface to write blogs.
  • They provide us a subdomain on their cloud so that we can start testing our things directly on the web.
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Shivam Sharma
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
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Cons
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  • CMS can be a bit hard to work with for the new users
  • Documentation should include more examples of the output and code along with the output.
  • Custom inputs are quite difficult to start and work with.
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Alternatives Considered
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- There is no fear of hitting a limit and suddenly having to start paying 500$ per month when you have been using it for free for a while - You don't have to worry about infrastructure because datasets are available as a service - With an open-source UI based on React, you don't have any limits to what you can build - For some reason, I could not find a service that provided schema as code before Sanity, and I cannot understand how anyone could think this was a good idea.
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Return on Investment
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  • It helped us to create an excellent developer experience and good experience for their editors as well
  • Sanity has created an incredible platform that effortlessly balances good DX for content modeling and good UI for content editing.
  • Pay-as-you-go hybrid service, no need to worry about reaching a cap and having to suddenly pay $500
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Anonymous
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ScreenShots

Directus Screenshots

Screenshot of Collection Page — This is the main gateway to your content items, providing a highly configurable Layout for browsing and visualizing the items within a collection. The header of this page includes key action buttons for creating, deleting, and batch editing items.Screenshot of Item Detail Page — Most Collection Detail Layouts support navigating to individual item detail pages where you a presented with a customizable form for viewing/editing the item's content.Screenshot of File Library — This module aggregates all files within the project into one consolidated library. This page has the same features and configuration as Collection Detail.Screenshot of Settings > Role Permissions — Directus includes an extremely granular, filter-based permissions system for controlling access.Screenshot of In-App Docs — This module is an internal set of guides, concepts, and reference docs for your project's specific version of Directus. It also includes a dynamic API Reference that is dynamically tailored to your custom schema.