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Directus vs d9: catalog facts
Directus	d9
Freemium Free to get started and self-host, with a paid hosted Directus Cloud option.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.
Web, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Works on top of an existing SQL database without changing the schema Automatic REST and GraphQL APIs	Drop-in replacement for Directus 9 with the same schema Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, CockroachDB, MariaDB and MS-SQL
Source-available license rather than OSI open source Needs developer setup and a database	Based on the older Directus 9 codebase rather than current Directus Smaller maintainer team than the original project
Self-hosted, Hosted service	Self-hosted
Closed source	Open source
License: BSL-1.1	License: GPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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