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Best Directus alternatives (2026)
7 alternatives to Directus in headless cms, ranked by entry price. Directus starts at $0/mo. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Free alternatives: Builder.io, Contentful, Hygraph, Prismic, Sanity, Storyblok.
- Closest by price: Builder.io ($0/user/mo), Contentful ($0/mo), Hygraph ($0/mo).
Directus alternatives compared
| # | Alternative | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Builder.io | $0/user/mo | Yes | — | Teams bridging Figma design and production code without handoff friction | builder.io |
| 2 | Contentful STALE · 2026-09-02 | $0/mo | Yes | — | Enterprise multi-brand content operations | contentful.com |
| 3 | Hygraph | $0/mo | Yes | — | Teams requiring GraphQL-first content API performance | hygraph.com |
| 4 | Prismic STALE · 2026-09-02 | $0/mo | Yes | — | Marketing teams managing website content independently from developers | prismic.io |
| 5 | Sanity | $0/mo | Yes | — | AI-native and agentic content applications | sanity.io |
| 6 | Storyblok | $0/mo | Yes | — | Enterprise marketing teams wanting visual editing without developer dependency | storyblok.com |
| 7 | Strapi Cloud STALE · 2026-06-14 | $18/mo | — | — | Developer teams wanting full open-source control with optional managed hosting | strapi.io |
Data current through 2026-10-12. STALE marks a row whose price we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days; a vendor with no published price is marked when any of its plans is. 3 of 7 rows above are marked. Compare any two directly on the Headless Cms index.