Your backend. Everyone's workspace.
Directus turns your database into a shared platform where developers, content teams, and AI all work on the same live data.
npx directus-template-cli@latest initPowering projects at teams you've heard of
A production-ready backend before your second coffee.
Every project needs APIs, auth, and admin tooling. Directus gives you all of it the moment you connect a database.
Define collections, fields, and relationships through an interface. Your database, your schema, your rules.
Instant GraphQL + REST APIs
Bring any SQL database
Policy-based access control
Extend with custom code
AI-ready from day one
Working with Directus has saved us over 4 months of development work. Since launching in Directus, we have decreased our technical support needs 3x compared to our old system. Now we can focus on what's next, instead of what's broken.
Liam Nicoll
Product Lead, Rescue.org
Stop being the bottleneck.
Your content team needs a field renamed. Marketing wants to launch a campaign. PM is asking for a dashboard. Every request routes through you.
Directus turns your backend into a shared workspace. Your team manages their own content and data, on your terms, without filing a single ticket.
Johnny Huang
Sr. Software Engineer
Falling in love with Directus is inevitable. It revolutionized our data schema design and maintenance workflow, enabling us to deliver features earlier while ensuring a robust and extensible data schema.
Dr. Michael Schäfers
Sr. Data Engineer
Directus has revolutionized our workflow compared to the outdated practice of exchanging Excel sheets via email. This platform significantly reduces manual workload while notably enhancing data quality by maintaining a single source of truth.
Heston Liebowitz
Sr. Director of Engineering
Directus is the foundation of Weber's smart grilling app, enabling seamless user experiences for nearly 6 million app sessions since its launch. It has consistently delivered exceptional performance with low latency and zero downtime. Its adaptability has allowed us to quickly introduce new app features with minimal backend engineering effort.
Ivan Nikolic
Frontend developer
Excellent CMS, user-friendly and it is very easy to manage data with the API. So far I have 4 projects in production that are related to Directus and I want to praise the team behind the whole story. As a very important thing, I can single out flows and transparency admin dashboard.
Antoine Veliz
VP, Design
Tripadvisor is using Directus to bring our products, data and content closer together. This will allow our users to plan and experience travel in new and innovative ways.
Nicolas Leport
Freelance at @nkCreation
I discovered Directus few years ago when it was written in PHP. Since then, I use it for nearly all the websites I do. It has all the features that me and my clients want to manage their content, a beautiful and easy-to-use interface without non-wanted things. I use it with tools like Astro, Nuxt and other SSR/SSG engines and it's amazing. Thank you for your awesome work.
Give your team the controls.
Keep your guardrails.
A visual workspace where content teams, business users, and AI work on live data without ever touching your code.
FEATURE
Let workflows do the busywork
Build automations that trigger on data changes, schedules, or manual input. Connect external services without code.
Tailor the view per role
Content editors see what they need. Developers see what they need. Nobody gets in each other's way.
Dashboards anyone can build
Real-time visibility into what matters. No SQL required. Drag, drop, and share with the team.
Extend every surface
Custom interfaces, layouts, modules, and hooks. When the defaults aren't enough, make it yours.
AI that works with your data. Not a copy of it.
Directus treats AI as another member of your team. Same permissions. Same governance. Same live data. No sync jobs, no shadow databases.
Things that would take a month of work with other platforms can be built out in seconds. If it wasn't for Directus, we wouldn't be delivering on our dates as a team.
Tony Macias
Tech Lead, The Shift Network
Fits your stack. Not the other way around.
Directus works with whatever you're already building with. Bring your favorite framework and database.
Stop drowning in tickets. Start shipping together.
Connect AI to your backend and let your team work at the speed of ideas. No lock-in and free to start.
From CMS to recognition platforms to 3D product builders and everything else in-between, we’ve yet to find a use case that Directus is unable to handle.
Matthew Rollinson
Co-Founder, Rolley.io