Directus Cloud Pricing

Community Self-Hosted
Completely Free
For individuals, companies, and organizations with less than $5,000,000 in total finances.
- Unlimited Users & Roles
- Unlimited Usage
- Free & Open Source
- No Feature Limitations
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Enterprise Self-Hosted
Flexible Pricing
Tailored production licenses for larger enterprises and government entities.
- Unlimited Users & Roles
- Unlimited Usage
- Free Non-Production Usage
- API Throughput-Based Pricing
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Which option do I choose?

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You can self-host all your projects for free, both production and non-production. No commercial licenses are required.

Frequently Asked Questions

Below are the more common questions we get asked. Learn more about Directus' licensing in the BSL FAQ or Contact our Sales Team.

Directus Cloud Self-Hosted

Is Directus Open Source?
We strongly believe Directus is an Open Source project. The source code is available on GitHub, where you can fork, modify, report issues, post discussions, create PRs, and control ongoing development.
We're cognizant and respectful that BSL is not a license that’s approved by the Open Source Initiative. However, the BSL has been reviewed and endorsed by the co-founder of the OSI as a good way to make open source projects sustainable, which supports our thinking.
How much do Enterprise Self-Hosted projects cost?
Enterprise Self-Hosted pricing is tailored to each project's specific requirements based on API throughput pricing. Various discounts are available for non-profits, bulk volume licenses, partners, and more. Please contact our Sales Team to coordinate a customized proposal.
What is API throughput pricing?
Enterprise Self-Hosted licenses are priced exclusively on monthly API bandwidth/requests. We believe this is a fair way to assess a project's scale, more so than seats or other common pricing metrics.
What if I'm an agency or freelancer?
Agencies and freelancers that are developing client work using Directus typically don't fall under production use, even when debugging a production instance. Only end-users of Directus are considered for our license's commercial threshold. It's worth noting that the agency/freelancer is considered an end-user if they remain directly involved in the production instance.
What if I'm building a PaaS or SaaS?
In and of itself, the act of facilitating installation, updating, or hosting Directus is not considered production use (and therefore doesn't require a commercial license) as long as the unmodified object code is being used. However, the production commercial license requirement still applies to any end-users of the project.
When is my Directus project in “production”?
Production use is defined in our license as any use other than development, debugging, evaluation, or testing your offerings. We also explicitly treat making the project available standalone in unmodified object code form as non-production use.
Who is considered an “end-user” of Directus?
An end-user is a human who directly interacts with Directus, be it through its App or APIs.
Can you provide my company with a demo?
For guided demos of our Enterprise service, please contact our Sales Team.
Can I hire your team for consulting or development?
Of course! Our talented team of designers and engineers are available for consulting, creative work, and custom development for both Directus Core (see our 80/20 Rule) and Directus Extensions. Contact our sales team to discuss.

“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
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
“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
“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
“Directus cloud takes the amazing product the team has built and pushes it one step further. It's probably the least restrictive web-based data management system you'll find, and being able to run up an instance in a matter of minutes makes things so much easier when you just need to test something small.”
Austin Phillip Taylor
Web developer and designer
“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
“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.”
Jens Kuerschner
Product Lead, arculus
“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
“Directus is open-source and provides an easy-to-use interface that allows me and my users to navigate the system to update data and content. The Rest API is well-documented making integration into any system very easy! I love being able to set up a new project in minutes rather than hours.”
Shea Lavington
Open Source Advocate
“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
“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

Directus Self-Hosted Pricing

Which option do I choose?

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Directus Open Source?

How much do Enterprise Self-Hosted projects cost?

What is API throughput pricing?

What if I'm an agency or freelancer?

What if I'm building a PaaS or SaaS?

When is my Directus project in “production”?

Who is considered an “end-user” of Directus?

Can you provide my company with a demo?

Can I hire your team for consulting or development?

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