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Directus
Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-08-03 — deterministic & reproducible
Directus is an open-source data platform and headless CMS with a no-code studio interface.
Is Directus production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Directus 79 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Directus (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Performance. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 49/100
- Accessibility — 88/100
- Security — 55/100
- Privacy — 100/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 79/100
- Discoverability — 85/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options.
- No Content-Security-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 377 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who built it
Benjamin Haynes · product account @directus
Who it's for
developers · teams · organizations · agencies · small businesses
Pricing
Core: free (3 seats, 25 collections); Team: $499/mo (10 SSO seats, 50 collections); Enterprise: custom pricing; Cloud add-on: $99/mo; Open Innovation Grant: free for orgs under $5M revenue and <50 emp