Directus as a Headless CMS

Seamless, flexible content management

Manage content, users, and assets with no limitations or barriers. Build the exact content experience you want – or use our powerful out-of-the-box features to spin up a new CMS in minutes.

No-Code Content Management

Loved by enterprises, agencies, and freelancers (and everyone in-between)

From Fortune 500s to software agencies, millions of developers, marketers, and tech leads have used Directus to build amazing content experiences for their teams and clients.

  • checkModern codebase built on Node.js and Vue.js
  • checkFull internationalization for global teams
  • checkNo core paywalls or artificial limitations
  • checkModular and extensible, with no feature ceiling
Content Management

Enable all your teams to browse, manage, and post content

A powerful GUI for engineers and an intuitive no-code app for non-technical users, anyone can fall in love with the easy-to-use UI/UX. That means no more laggards or non-adopters.

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File Management

Powerful digital asset management built-in

Simply connect your local filesystem or S3-compatible storage adapters, and you're ready to go. Our full-featured DAM platform helps all your teams organize their files, and relationally interconnect them with the rest of your data.

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Data Visualization

Create custom dashboards for meaningful insights

Anyone can build business intelligence dashboards in minutes with Directus Insights, our no-code charting and analytics module. Add tailored panels for metrics, dynamic lists, time-series, meters, and more — then reposition and resize to your heart's content.

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Workflow Automation

Automate simple tasks or complex processes

Choose from various event triggers, and then drag and drop conditions and operations to create automated workflows. The data payload flows through the custom logic you configure, and can even trigger other flows. All with detailed logs tracking the data's journey.

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White-Label Solution

Customize everything, make it yours

Directus is an unopinionated framework that welcomes end-to-end customization, so you never worry about outgrowing the platform.

Capabilities

A feature-rich experience

In case you're still looking for more, below are a handful of other notable capabilities built into the core Directus Studio.

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  • “We had departments using many different CMS. They ranged from extremely expensive to open-source projects. Directus has proven to be better than all the others.”

    Dr. Brian Myers
    Principal Cloud Engineer at Bose
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  • In addition to our perfect rating on G2, Directus was also awarded six major accolades for the Summer 2022 quarter. These include High Performer, Easiest to Use, Best ROI, Most Likely to Recommend, and more.

    G2 — 5.0 out of 5 rating
    Summer 2022 Quarter
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  • “Directus is a powerful tool offering a lot of flexibility. The back office is very intuitive and it’s possible to do many things. The tool can be used in open source and very customizable, Directus allowed us to develop websites using our favorite framework: next.js.”

    Kiril Gorbatenko
    CEO, Web Vision 360
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  • “Directus is quite impressive about the potentials it have from a business point of view. The software is easy to configure and the community is very active continously improving the available functionalities and solving known issues”

    Vincenzo Lupia
    DevOps Developer, Doxee
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  • “It started with the ease of "just quickly set up a project" for small projects, but we soon discovered that so much more was possible! We replaced a lot of our Laravel/Nova projects without writing additional extensions, if we do need custom logic it’s super easy.”

    Jeroen Ling
    Senior Frontend Developer & DevOps Engineer, Vanling
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  • “Directus enabled us to make our own choices and set the YIA website up in the right way, whereas other more opinionated situations prohibit that freedom of choice.”

    Matt Skinner
    Technical Lead, Cucumber Digital Agency
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  • 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.”

    Antoine Veliz
    VP, Design at Tripadvisor
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  • Directus unifies our data coming in from across the country, adding value, and redistributing the consolidated data back out to stakeholders with its built-in API. Directus also acts as a validation and improvement tool, allowing non-technical staff to manually verify or flag issues with generated data connections.”

    Brent Cartier
    Strategy Lead for Digital Services, Canadian Government
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