The backend for your whole team.
Connect any database. Get instant APIs, a no-code interface, and a native MCP server for your headless CMS.
Connect any database. Get instant APIs, a no-code interface, and a native MCP server for your headless CMS.
npx
directus-template-cli@latest init
npx
directus-template-cli@latest init
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Model your data
Set your rules
Connect your team and AI
Model your data
Set your rules
Connect your team and AI
Model your data
Model your data
A Powerful Backend Out-of-the-box
Your data. Your API. Your entire team's workspace.
Self-host on your own infrastructure or deploy to Directus Cloud. Have a full backend up and running in minutes.
A Powerful Backend Out-of-the-box
Your data. Your API. Your entire team's workspace.
Self-host on your own infrastructure or deploy to Directus Cloud. Have a full backend up and running in minutes.
Feature
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Instant REST & GraphQL APIs
Your database schema becomes your API. Connect Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, or any supported SQL database and Directus generates a production-ready REST and GraphQL API automatically. No code or abstraction hiding your data.
Visual Data Studio
Policy-based Access Control
Built-in AI Assistant
Automation Engine (Flows)
Extend with Custom Code
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Instant REST & GraphQL APIs
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Instant REST & GraphQL APIs
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What is a Collaborative Backend?
Teams can work independently. On the same data.
Three teams, three different jobs, one backend. No tickets required.
Content Team
Translate and publish in one conversation.
A content editor asks the AI Assistant to translate a blog post into French, German, and Spanish. It writes the translations directly into the correct locale fields. No third-party tool, no copy-paste, no manual field mapping. One conversation, done.
Developer
Scaffold a data model from your IDE.
A developer connects Cursor to Directus via MCP and asks it to create a new collection with fields, relationships, and validation rules. The schema is live in seconds. No clicking through the Studio, no writing migration scripts.
Operations
Tag 500 images before lunch.
An ops manager connects Claude Desktop to Directus and asks it to analyze product images, generate alt text, and apply category tags. The metadata is written directly to the asset records. Hours of manual work, gone.
What is a Collaborative Backend?
Teams can work independently. On the same data.
Three teams, three different jobs, one backend. No tickets required.
Content Team
Translate and publish in one conversation.
A content editor asks the AI Assistant to translate a blog post into French, German, and Spanish. It writes the translations directly into the correct locale fields. No third-party tool, no copy-paste, no manual field mapping. One conversation, done.
Developer
Scaffold a data model from your IDE.
A developer connects Cursor to Directus via MCP and asks it to create a new collection with fields, relationships, and validation rules. The schema is live in seconds. No clicking through the Studio, no writing migration scripts.
Operations
Tag 500 images before lunch.
An ops manager connects Claude Desktop to Directus and asks it to analyze product images, generate alt text, and apply category tags. The metadata is written directly to the asset records. Hours of manual work, gone.
What is a Collaborative Backend?
Teams can work independently. On the same data.
Three teams, three different jobs, one backend. No tickets required.
Content Team
Translate and publish in one conversation.
A content editor asks the AI Assistant to translate a blog post into French, German, and Spanish. It writes the translations directly into the correct locale fields. No third-party tool, no copy-paste, no manual field mapping. One conversation, done.
Developer
Scaffold a data model from your IDE.
A developer connects Cursor to Directus via MCP and asks it to create a new collection with fields, relationships, and validation rules. The schema is live in seconds. No clicking through the Studio, no writing migration scripts.
Operations
Tag 500 images before lunch.
An ops manager connects Claude Desktop to Directus and asks it to analyze product images, generate alt text, and apply category tags. The metadata is written directly to the asset records. Hours of manual work, gone.
A no-code UI for Teams
A no-code admin interface with the features your end-users need.
All the features you'd add later. Already here.
Digital Asset Manager
Upload, organize, and transform files on demand. Request any image at any size. CDN-ready. Your media library lives next to your content.
The backend
your whole team
actually uses.
Create Reusable Blocks with
Many-to-Any Relationships
Thomas
-
1d ago
Whitelabel Ready
Your logo. Your fonts. Your colors. Fully customize the Studio to look like your product, not ours.
Realtime & WebSockets
Subscribe to any collection and get live updates. Build collaborative apps, live dashboards, or real-time feeds on your existing database.
Visual Editing & Live Preview
Editors see their changes in your actual app as they type. Configurable per collection. Works with any frontend framework.
Aa
A no-code UI for Teams
A no-code admin interface with the features your end-users need.
All the features you'd add later. Already here.
Digital Asset Manager
Upload, organize, and transform files on demand. Request any image at any size. CDN-ready. Your media library lives next to your content.
The backend
your whole team
actually uses.
Create Reusable Blocks with
Many-to-Any Relationships
Thomas
-
1d ago
Whitelabel Ready
Your logo. Your fonts. Your colors. Fully customize the Studio to look like your product, not ours.
Realtime & WebSockets
Subscribe to any collection and get live updates. Build collaborative apps, live dashboards, or real-time feeds on your existing database.
Visual Editing & Live Preview
Editors see their changes in your actual app as they type. Configurable per collection. Works with any frontend framework.
Aa
A no-code UI for Teams
A no-code admin interface with the features your end-users need.
All the features you'd add later. Already here.
Digital Asset Manager
Upload, organize, and transform files on demand. Request any image at any size. CDN-ready. Your media library lives next to your content.
The backend
your whole team
actually uses.
Create Reusable Blocks with
Many-to-Any Relationships
Thomas
-
1d ago
Whitelabel Ready
Your logo. Your fonts. Your colors. Fully customize the Studio to look like your product, not ours.
Realtime & WebSockets
Subscribe to any collection and get live updates. Build collaborative apps, live dashboards, or real-time feeds on your existing database.
Visual Editing & Live Preview
Editors see their changes in your actual app as they type. Configurable per collection. Works with any frontend framework.
Aa
A no-code UI for Teams
A no-code admin interface with the features your end-users need.
All the features you'd add later. Already here.
Digital Asset Manager
Upload, organize, and transform files on demand. Request any image at any size. CDN-ready. Your media library lives next to your content.
The backend
your whole team
actually uses.
Create Reusable Blocks with
Many-to-Any Relationships
Thomas
-
1d ago
Whitelabel Ready
Your logo. Your fonts. Your colors. Fully customize the Studio to look like your product, not ours.
Realtime & WebSockets
Subscribe to any collection and get live updates. Build collaborative apps, live dashboards, or real-time feeds on your existing database.
Visual Editing & Live Preview
Editors see their changes in your actual app as they type. Configurable per collection. Works with any frontend framework.
Aa
In Production
Over 45 million downloads. And counting.
Don't take our word for it. Hear from teams using Directus in production.
Lisa Le Pogam
Head of E-Commerce Product, Club Med
"We no longer have to reinvent the wheel every time we build a new back-office. And the MCP you've developed - that's really what we're projecting into the future."
Antoine Veliz
VP of Design, Tripadvisor
"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."
Heston Liebowitz
Sr. Director of Engineering, Weber Grills
"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."
Nikolai Zveznet
Development Manager, Prusa
"If we didn't have [Directus], we probably would need another 50% more people on the customer support team just to deal with the overhead of trying to get the data between the different systems manually."
Maria Lucia Peraza
Sr. Manager of Digital Solutions, Copa Airlines
"We improved [our website] load times from an average of 6 seconds to just 1-2 seconds. Directus is the perfect choice for us in terms of size, flexibility and usability."
Suzanne Smagala-Potts
Sr. Manager of Digital Development, Ripley's
"Directus is definitely making us a lot more capable than we would be trying to go it alone."
Liam Nicoll
Product Lead, Rescue.org
"Our team works to respond to humanitarian emergencies in over 30 languages and countries with 200 users. We urgently needed to develop a mapping content management system to replace our custom, old hunk of junk. Working with Directus 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."
Tony Macias
Tech Lead, The Shift Network
"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."
In Production
Over 45 million downloads. And counting.
Don't take our word for it. Hear from teams using Directus in production.
"We no longer have to reinvent the wheel every time we build a new back-office. And the MCP you've developed - that's really what we're projecting into the future."
Lisa Le Pogam
Head of E-Commerce Product, Club Med
"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 of Design, Tripadvisor
"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."
Heston Liebowitz
Sr. Director of Engineering, Weber Grills
"If we didn't have [Directus], we probably would need another 50% more people on the customer support team just to deal with the overhead of trying to get the data between the different systems manually."
Nikolai Zveznet
Development Manager, Prusa
"We improved [our website] load times from an average of 6 seconds to just 1-2 seconds. Directus is the perfect choice for us in terms of size, flexibility and usability."
Maria Lucia Peraza
Sr. Manager of Digital Solutions, Copa Airlines
"Directus is definitely making us a lot more capable than we would be trying to go it alone."
Suzanne Smagala-Potts
Sr. Manager of Digital Development, Ripley's
"Our team works to respond to humanitarian emergencies in over 30 languages and countries with 200 users. We urgently needed to develop a mapping content management system to replace our custom, old hunk of junk. Working with Directus 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."
Liam Nicoll
Product Lead, Rescue.org
"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
In Production
Over 45 million downloads. And counting.
Don't take our word for it. Hear from teams using Directus in production.
"We no longer have to reinvent the wheel every time we build a new back-office. And the MCP you've developed - that's really what we're projecting into the future."
Lisa Le Pogam
Head of E-Commerce Product, Club Med
"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 of Design, Tripadvisor
"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."
Heston Liebowitz
Sr. Director of Engineering, Weber Grills
"If we didn't have [Directus], we probably would need another 50% more people on the customer support team just to deal with the overhead of trying to get the data between the different systems manually."
Nikolai Zveznet
Development Manager, Prusa
"We improved [our website] load times from an average of 6 seconds to just 1-2 seconds. Directus is the perfect choice for us in terms of size, flexibility and usability."
Maria Lucia Peraza
Sr. Manager of Digital Solutions, Copa Airlines
"Directus is definitely making us a lot more capable than we would be trying to go it alone."
Suzanne Smagala-Potts
Sr. Manager of Digital Development, Ripley's
"Our team works to respond to humanitarian emergencies in over 30 languages and countries with 200 users. We urgently needed to develop a mapping content management system to replace our custom, old hunk of junk. Working with Directus 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."
Liam Nicoll
Product Lead, Rescue.org
"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
In Production
Over 45 million downloads. And counting.
Don't take our word for it. Hear from teams using Directus in production.
"We no longer have to reinvent the wheel every time we build a new back-office. And the MCP you've developed - that's really what we're projecting into the future."
Lisa Le Pogam
Head of E-Commerce Product, Club Med
"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 of Design, Tripadvisor
"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."
Heston Liebowitz
Sr. Director of Engineering, Weber Grills
"If we didn't have [Directus], we probably would need another 50% more people on the customer support team just to deal with the overhead of trying to get the data between the different systems manually."
Nikolai Zveznet
Development Manager, Prusa
"We improved [our website] load times from an average of 6 seconds to just 1-2 seconds. Directus is the perfect choice for us in terms of size, flexibility and usability."
Maria Lucia Peraza
Sr. Manager of Digital Solutions, Copa Airlines
"Directus is definitely making us a lot more capable than we would be trying to go it alone."
Suzanne Smagala-Potts
Sr. Manager of Digital Development, Ripley's
"Our team works to respond to humanitarian emergencies in over 30 languages and countries with 200 users. We urgently needed to develop a mapping content management system to replace our custom, old hunk of junk. Working with Directus 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."
Liam Nicoll
Product Lead, Rescue.org
"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
AI & MCP
AI that acts on your data. Not a copy of it.
Connect any model or agent to your backend. The same access policies that govern your team govern your AI.
AI & MCP
AI that acts on your data. Not a copy of it.
Connect any model or agent to your backend. The same access policies that govern your team govern your AI.
Built-in AI Assistant
Conversational AI embedded in the Studio. It writes, translates, creates records, and routes content for review.
Native MCP Server
Native MCP Server
Connect Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT, or any MCP-compatible tool directly to your Directus backend.
Governed by Default
AI agents operate under the same role-based access control as human users.
The Studio
Your team is waiting on you. They don't have to be.
The Studio turns your backend into a workspace. Editors edit. Approvers approve. Everyone moves without a ticket.
Write and edit without filing a ticket
Content editors get a clean form-based UI built from your database schema: rich text, relationships, files, or numbers.
Title
Content Changes No Longer Require Support Requests
Body
We’ve streamlined the content workflow so authorized users can now create and update articles directly in Directus without submitting a support ticket.
Status
Published
Approval workflows that run themselves
Build multi-step content flows visually. Submission triggers, review notifications, conditional approvals, and publish actions.
Submit
Review
Approve
Publish
Dashboards anyone on the team can build
Drag-and-drop analytics on top of your live data. Charts, metrics, and reports your team builds and owns.
Set the rules. Then step aside.
Field-level access control for every role and token. The same policy governs your team, your API, and your AI agents.
The Studio
Your team is waiting on you. They don't have to be.
The Studio turns your backend into a workspace. Editors edit. Approvers approve. Everyone moves without a ticket.
Write and edit without filing a ticket
Content editors get a clean form-based UI built from your database schema: rich text, relationships, files, or numbers.
Title
Content Changes No Longer Require Support Requests
Body
We’ve streamlined the content workflow so authorized users can now create and update articles directly in Directus without submitting a support ticket.
Status
Published
Approval workflows that run themselves
Build multi-step content flows visually. Submission triggers, review notifications, conditional approvals, and publish actions.
Submit
Review
Approve
Publish
Dashboards anyone on the team can build
Drag-and-drop analytics on top of your live data. Charts, metrics, and reports your team builds and owns.
Set the rules. Then step aside.
Field-level access control for every role and token. The same policy governs your team, your API, and your AI agents.
The Studio
Your team is waiting on you. They don't have to be.
The Studio turns your backend into a workspace. Editors edit. Approvers approve. Everyone moves without a ticket.
Write and edit without filing a ticket
Content editors get a clean form-based UI built from your database schema: rich text, relationships, files, or numbers.
Title
Content Changes No Longer Require Support Requests
Body
We’ve streamlined the content workflow so authorized users can now create and update articles directly in Directus without submitting a support ticket.
Status
Published
Approval workflows that run themselves
Build multi-step content flows visually. Submission triggers, review notifications, conditional approvals, and publish actions.
Submit
Review
Approve
Publish
Dashboards anyone on the team can build
Drag-and-drop analytics on top of your live data. Charts, metrics, and reports your team builds and owns.
Set the rules. Then step aside.
Field-level access control for every role and token. The same policy governs your team, your API, and your AI agents.
The Studio
Your team is waiting on you. They don't have to be.
The Studio turns your backend into a workspace. Editors edit. Approvers approve. Everyone moves without a ticket.
Write and edit without filing a ticket
Content editors get a clean form-based UI built from your database schema: rich text, relationships, files, or numbers.
Title
Content Changes No Longer Require Support Requests
Body
We’ve streamlined the content workflow so authorized users can now create and update articles directly in Directus without submitting a support ticket.
Status
Published
Approval workflows that run themselves
Build multi-step content flows visually. Submission triggers, review notifications, conditional approvals, and publish actions.
Submit
Review
Approve
Publish
Dashboards anyone on the team can build
Drag-and-drop analytics on top of your live data. Charts, metrics, and reports your team builds and owns.
Set the rules. Then step aside.
Field-level access control for every role and token. The same policy governs your team, your API, and your AI agents.
Unopinionated
Fit your stack. Not the other way around.
Your database, your frameworks, no lock-in.
M+
Downloads
K+
GitHub Stars
K+
Projects Deployed
K+
Community Members
Unopinionated
Fit your stack. Not the other way around.
Your database, your frameworks, no lock-in.
M+
Downloads
K+
GitHub Stars
K+
Projects Deployed
K+
Community Members
Unopinionated
Fit your stack. Not the other way around.
Your database, your frameworks, no lock-in.
M+
Downloads
K+
GitHub Stars
K+
Projects Deployed
K+
Community Members
Unopinionated
Fit your stack. Not the other way around.
Your database, your frameworks, no lock-in.
M+
Downloads
K+
GitHub Stars
K+
Projects Deployed
K+
Community Members
Get Started
Try it. Or talk to us.
Self-host free with one install. No credit card required. Or book a demo and we'll walk you through what Directus can do.
npx
directus-template-cli@latest init
Get Started
Try it. Or talk to us.
Self-host free with one install. No credit card required. Or book a demo and we'll walk you through what Directus can do.
npx
directus-template-cli@latest init
Get Started
Try it. Or talk to us.
Self-host free with one install. No credit card required. Or book a demo and we'll walk you through what Directus can do.
npx
directus-template-cli@latest init
Get Started
Try it. Or talk to us.
Self-host free with one install. No credit card required. Or book a demo and we'll walk you through what Directus can do.
npx
directus-template-cli@latest init
Articles
Jun 4, 2026
AI Agents Need Context. Salesforce Just Bought It.
Salesforce’s bet in Contentful is that owning the content layer strengthens Agentforce. But the bigger problem is governing that access.
Case Study
May 22, 2026
How Directus helped a global luxury travel leader unify its CMS stack
How Club Med, a €2B global travel operator, consolidated a decade-old multi-CMS stack into a single Directus platform powering its travel agent portal, guest mobile app, and B2C websites.
Articles
Jun 4, 2026
AI Agents Need Context. Salesforce Just Bought It.
Salesforce’s bet in Contentful is that owning the content layer strengthens Agentforce. But the bigger problem is governing that access.
Benjamin Haynes
Case Study
May 22, 2026
How Directus helped a global luxury travel leader unify its CMS stack
How Club Med, a €2B global travel operator, consolidated a decade-old multi-CMS stack into a single Directus platform powering its travel agent portal, guest mobile app, and B2C websites.
Matt Minor
Articles
Jun 4, 2026
AI Agents Need Context. Salesforce Just Bought It.
Salesforce’s bet in Contentful is that owning the content layer strengthens Agentforce. But the bigger problem is governing that access.
Benjamin Haynes
Case Study
May 22, 2026
How Directus helped a global luxury travel leader unify its CMS stack
How Club Med, a €2B global travel operator, consolidated a decade-old multi-CMS stack into a single Directus platform powering its travel agent portal, guest mobile app, and B2C websites.
Matt Minor
Articles
Jun 4, 2026
AI Agents Need Context. Salesforce Just Bought It.
Salesforce’s bet in Contentful is that owning the content layer strengthens Agentforce. But the bigger problem is governing that access.
Benjamin Haynes
Case Study
May 22, 2026
How Directus helped a global luxury travel leader unify its CMS stack
How Club Med, a €2B global travel operator, consolidated a decade-old multi-CMS stack into a single Directus platform powering its travel agent portal, guest mobile app, and B2C websites.
Matt Minor
Directus
The collaborative backend for builders & AI.
SOC 2
Type II
G2
4.9
GDPR
Compliant
Directus
The collaborative backend for builders & AI.
SOC 2
Type II
G2
4.9
GDPR
Compliant
Directus
The collaborative backend for builders & AI.
SOC 2
Type II
G2
4.9
GDPR
Compliant
Directus
The collaborative backend for builders & AI.
SOC 2
Type II
G2
4.9
GDPR
Compliant
