Starter
$15 per month
Billed annually
Best for static site CMS projects and small personal projects.
- 1 Studio User Included
- 5,000 DB Entries
- 50,000 API requests
Cloud-Hosted Directus Pricing
Everything you need to start building.
Provisioned in 90 seconds.
Fast-forward development with our fully managed cloud infrastructure. Powered by AWS, you get a true backend-out-of-the-box without having to fumble with servers, databases, file stores, CDNs, and more.
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Professional
$99 per month
Billed annually
Best for development, staging, and early production projects.
- 5 Studio Users Included
- 75,000 DB Entries
- 250,000 API requests
Enterprise
Flexible pricing
Billed annually
For large projects with robust security, scale, and support needs.
- Custom Studio Users
- Custom DB Entries
- Custom API Requests
- Multiple Environments
- Premium Support and SLAs
| General | Starter | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | $15/mo | $99/mo | Custom |
| Studio Users Included | 1 user | 5 users | Custom |
| Additional Studio Users | + $15/user | + $15/user | Custom |
| Configurability | Basic | Basic | Advanced |
| Database Entries | 5,000 | 75,000 | Custom |
| API Requests / Month | 50,000 | 250,000 | Custom |
| API Bandwidth / Month | 50 GB | 500 GB | Custom |
| Asset Size | 500 MB | 500 MB | Custom |
| Total File Storage | 10 GB | 150 GB | Custom |
| Usage Limits | Capped | Capped | Tailored |
| License Fee | Included | Included | Included |
| Infrastructure | Starter | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Region Availability | 3 | 3 | 20+ |
| Database Server | Shared | Shared | Dedicated |
| Application Servers | Shared | Shared | Dedicated |
| Asset Storage | Shared | Shared | Dedicated |
| Cache Server | Shared | Shared | Dedicated |
| Networking | Shared | Shared | Dedicated |
| Custom Domain | Partial | Partial | Fully |
| Failover Instance(s) | |||
| Automatic Updates | |||
| Uptime SLA |
| Support | Starter | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Support | |||
| Basic Support | |||
| Premium Support | +$300/month |
| Platform | Starter | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Validation | |||
| Insights Module | |||
| Flows Automation | |||
| Transactional Emails | |||
| Marketplace Extensions | |||
| Custom Extensions | |||
| Version Locking |
| Compliance & Security | Starter | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Filter-Based Permissions | |||
| Data Processing Agreement (GDPR) | |||
| OAuth2 & OpenID (SSO) | |||
| SAML (SSO) | |||
| LDAP (SSO) |
| Connectivity | Starter | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| REST API | |||
| GraphQL API | |||
| Image & Asset API | |||
| JavaScript SDK | |||
| Webhooks | |||
| WebSockets | |||
| Direct Database Access |
We can quickly spin up a working piece of functionality and talk about how to develop ideas further. Directus is definitely making us a lot more capable than we would be trying to go it alone.
Daniel Laughland
SVP Software Engineering, Novus Home Mortgage
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focus on the frontend.
Stop wasting hours on setup and maintenance. With cloud, you get a fully managed project that is specifically tailored to maximize Directus performance, scale, and security.
Manage all your cloud projects in one place.
Each Cloud account comes with a dashboard to manage projects, users, and billing. Easily monitor bandwidth usage, API requests, track activity occurring in any of your cloud projects, and more.
Frequently Asked Questions
Below are the more common questions we get asked. To learn more, book a demo with our team.
Is Directus free to self-host?
A commercial license is only required for production projects within entities exceeding $5 million in total annual finances.
Inspired by Unity’s software license, we’ve defined total finances as the largest of your aggregate gross revenues, entire budget, and/or funding (no matter the source) — each calculated based on the most recent 12-month period.
If your total finances are under $5,000,000 USD, you are free to use Directus however you see fit. If you’re using Directus in a non-production instance, this change doesn’t affect you.
If your total finances are over $5,000,000 and you’re using Directus in production, you will have to purchase a commercial license.
To illustrate the various use cases:
- Individual developer making a non-commercial hobby project — No cost
- Small business with total finances under $5,000,000 — No cost
- Large enterprise non-production use — No cost
- Large enterprise production use — Commercial license required
- Small agency building projects for others — Depends on your client
Please refer to our software license for a detailed description of terms, or contact our team with any questions.
How do I purchase a commercial license?
Purchasing a license is super easy – grab some time to chat with our licensing team to discuss your needs and use case.
Why BSL 1.1?
There are many software licenses available for a wide variety of (specialty) use cases. We felt that BSL1.1 came the closest to keeping the spirit of Open Source intact while allowing us to make sure it’s financially sustainable.
We also noticed that many of our favorite projects, like Sentry, CockroachDB, and Couchbase all have successfully adopted BSL as their license.
Can you provide my company with a demo?
For a full demo of our Enterprise cloud offering and features, book some time with our enterprise team.
What is the difference between "Studio Users" and regular "Users"?
Studio Users are users that have access to the Directus Data Studio. These are typically members of your team who use the studio to interact with your data – like creating new blog posts, editing page content, managing assets, or more.
The technical criteria for a Studio User is:
- At least one policy with 'Admin Access' enabled.
- At least one policy with 'App Access' enabled, allowing access to the Data Studio.
Other users that ONLY access Directus via the APIs do not count towards your Studio User total.
An API Only user might be a person who's interacting with your frontend application, an internal microservice that fetches or pushes data to Directus, or a third party system sending data to Directus.
Where can I see my invoices?
You can access all of your team's invoices and transaction history directly through our Cloud Dashboard.
Do you offer support for self-hosted projects?
Anyone can access our Community Support and knowledge base on GitHub Discussion. Premium support options are only available to Enterprise Cloud customers or paid agreements. Contact our team to discuss further.
How much do Enterprise Cloud projects cost?
Enterprise pricing is tailored to each project's specific requirements. Please contact our team to coordinate a customized proposal.
Do you offer non-profit or open-source discounts?
Yes, we do! Being open source ourselves, we're aware of how important it is to support open-source maintainers. If you are the maintainer of an open-source project (see policy below), contact us to discuss available discounts.
Your Directus Cloud owner account email must match a GitHub account that is the primary maintainer of an open source repository and must have existed for at least 6 months and/or have 100 stars.