--- description: Get detailed information about Directus usability, features, price, benefits and disadvantages from verified user experiences. Read reviews and discover similar tools on Capterra United Arab Emirates. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Directus Price, Reviews & Ratings - Capterra United Arab Emirates 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Content Management System (CMS) Software](/directory/10007/content-management/software) > [Directus](/software/156619/directus) # Directus Canonical: https://www.capterra.ae/software/156619/directus Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ae/software/156619/directus?page=2) > Directus is the world's leading Open Data Platform and a flexible powerhouse to democratize your data across your entire business. > > Verdict: Rated **4.5/5** by 60 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Directus? Developers and development agencies building custom architecture applications for multiple clients, such as web, native, wearable, or other data-driven projects such as kiosks or IoT devices. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.5/5** | 60 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Monospace Inc - **Founded**: 2011 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: $25.00 - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free version available) - **Pricing Details**: Build your hobby or proofs-of-concept projects for FREE with our Community Cloud. If you are looking for a production-ready and highly performant offering, check out the pay-as-you-go usage-based pricing on our Standard Cloud. Configure the exact hardware you need and apply customized auto-scaling rules, starting at just $.0347 per node, for every hour you use the platform. Our Enterprise team is ready if you require support and an SLA for your project. Head over to directus.io/contact-enterprise to get started. At Directus Cloud, there's a place for everyone and every project\! - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise), Chromebook (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Activity Dashboard - Collaboration Tools - Content Management System (CMS) Software - Content Publishing Options - Customer Database - Data Connectors - Data Import/Export - Data Management Software - Deployment Management - Document Management Software - Drag & Drop - Electronic Forms - Full Text Search - Integrations Management - KPI Monitoring - Mobile Access - Multi-Channel Marketing - Search/Filter - Secure Data Storage - Text Editing - Version Control - Visual Modeling - Workflow Management Software ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base Software - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Content Management System (CMS) Software](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/10007/content-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Content Management System (CMS) Software](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/10007/content-management/software) - [Headless CMS Platform Software](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/32215/headless-cms-platform/software) - [Application Builder Software](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/32016/app-building/software) - [Data Visualization Software](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/30696/data-visualization/software) - [Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/32817/digital-experience-platforms-%28dxp%29/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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If you want it fully managed, there is a cloud-version at a fair price (cheap compared to others) too. > > **Cons**: Potential con for some people: The PHP version got more or less deprecated. There might be one version again, but focus is definitely with NodeJS. If you want to host it yourself and are not able to run Node or Docker, you might run into problems. File management could be better and more customizable (in terms of conditional rules how uploads get processed per collection and field). > > I loved the previous versions, but especially the new V9 really excites me. I never experienced any smoother experience setting up any content management system (including the old guys like WordPress or Drupal). From a product and/or IT lead perspective, it brings you so much power for so many use cases - without a huge price tag or complexity. ----- ### "A great platform leveraged as a headless CMS" — 5.0/5 > **Daniel** | *5 October 2023* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: After reviewing and trying a few headless CMS’, we selected Directus. We found that Directus was a comprehensive, feature rich, well supported and intuitive. The main differentiator for us was their implementation of a multi tenancy solution. I would highly recommend this platform to anyone who is looking to deliver a single CMS product across multiple organisation with discrete and granular controls and permissions. > > **Cons**: They’ve increased (not by that much) their lowest tier pricing. For us the previous pricing was a low barrier for entry for a lot of rich features. However saying that for the new pricing you are still receiving a lot of value. ----- ### "Fantastic concept, medium user experience" — 3.0/5 > **Davide** | *6 February 2020* | Design | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: I love the concept behind Directus: the idea to freely create a database in an easy way, organizing the content as you need or as you imagined it. I come from Kirby CM and Craft CMS and doing websites in which the custom design is the key, it's important to us to shape our content as we want. It's easy to install, the Slack support is friendly and helpful. In the search for the perfect headless CMS solution, it was my choice, also because it's open source and at the moment the pricing of others options is over budget for our clients. We were ok paying a fee for a license, but not a perpetual subscription. Moreover, a key point in the decision to adopt it is the self-hosted solution: we wanted to avoid every possible lock-in. Finally, the stack: working in a communication agency, we are not software engineers: PHP + Vue.js it's a perfect combination. React and node.js onthe server was a switch too big to take another leap. > > **Cons**: Above all, the bugs: being open source and free it's normal, but it is frustrating in the measure we decided to use it for clients works. Second: the lack of documentation for the interfaces or for the detailed use of the JS SDK. Moreover, sometimes I felt overwhelmed by the technical details of the interface. I don't have competence in relational databases and to me too much things doesn't have a meaning. But I'm mainly a front-end developer that try to be "independent", so I think that it's normal. Finally: the lack of a good repeater. At the moment it's impossible to use a file field in it, or to repeat a group of field. For us it's almost a strict requirement for clients projects. > > Until now the experience is good: I like the idea and it works for the project that we started with Directus. We still need to resolve some issues, like how to properly manage pages and SEO data or how to overcome the lack of the repeater field, but it's working well. The experience with the support was fantastic. \[SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN\] was kind and friendly, in spite of my incompetence. I appreciate the enthusiasm and the open source spirit. Sometimes I experienced some limits for the reasons mentioned early, but I'm happy. ----- ### "Great headless CMS" — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *6 February 2020* | Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: You can manage your collections and content through good looking administration, you create (even complex) relationships between the collections, there is a support to manage localized content. Your content is served through REST or GraphQL API that is simple learn. Good support of roles and permissions who can consume the content through API. There is a good extensions support for both APP and API. Easy deployement with Docker. > > **Cons**: Performance of API calls for more complex data (relation) can be a bit sluggish, but it can be solved by setting up cache. There are bugs that take a long time to solve. GraphQL API has still lacking features compared to REST API. ----- ### "Excellent headless CMS" — 5.0/5 > **Alejandro** | *13 February 2020* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: This is Free and Open Source Software at its best. Directus has a great, well tended community, excellent developers, many options and lots of friendly answers to real questions. I have not found any other headless API I can self host in amazon or wherever I want. This makes for a local development cycle, short time to market, very easy to prototybe setup for example for react/gatsby apps. > > **Cons**: The app where you manage the database still needs a bit more documentation. It does not lack features, but some features lack propper documentation. I hope to help on this in the future\! > > I have a very difficult multi-platform usecase involving languages from R/Python, reproducible data slicing, on the fly dataset creation all the way to front-end react, pregenerated app (gatsby) in a single build command. Directus is my sole source of truth, what I use to back this whole thing. This allows me to use the same translations and metadata for everything no matter if I am in R or Javascript consuming graphql, either on production client code or in static pregeneration stage in gatsby. There are other headless apis that can do this, but I cannot self host them and I need to be able to very quickly generate large datasets on the database as I research and tear them down in the same base as the CMS for the app. That is, I need this to run on my computer first. This is where directus knocked it out of the park for me. Also, docker setup is touch and go. Nothing needed. 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