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Agent-Ready SaaS Index · directus.io · scored 2026-05-09 · rubric v2.0
Score 70 / 100
Headless Cms
Self-serve checkout
Public API

Directus scores 70/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; a public API exists with documentation; a free entry path exists.

See Directus pricing summaryLive pricing page
Pricing
Directus pricing
As of 2026-05-09 · directus.io/pricing/
Billed annually only — no monthly option
Free
Free
forever
5 Studio Users
Limited API requests
Professional
$99/mo
billed annually
5 Studio Users included
250,000 API requests per month
Premium support (Enterprise only)
Enterprise
Sales
Contact sales
Custom studio users
Custom DB entries
Dedicated infrastructure
Score breakdown · rubric v2.0
How Directus scores on the agent-ready dimensions

Public pricing visibility

13 / 15

Self-serve checkout

15 / 15

Public API + docs

18 / 20

Usage-based / metered pricing

0 / 20

Free entry path

7 / 7

No sales call required

7 / 7

Card / wallet / x402 payment

5 / 6

Machine-readable bonus (MCP / OpenAPI)

5 / 10

Total
70 / 100
Effective pricing
What it actually costs at typical scale
Free plan, 5 Studio Users
$0/mo
· No additional Studio Users added· Within included API request limits
Confidence: high
Professional plan, 5 Studio Users, standard usage
$99/mo
· Billed annually at $99 per month· Within 250k API request quota
Confidence: high
Agent purchase verdict
Can an autonomous agent transact here?
Agent-ready
LLM score: 75/100

Can create account

Yes

Can enter payment method

Yes

Can upgrade plan

Yes

Can buy more usage

No

Can cancel online

Yes

Payment methods

card

Human approval recommended

No

Pricing transparency

partial

Purchase motion

self_serve

Demo required

No

Quote required

No

Annual commit required

Yes

Auto-renewal mentioned

Yes

Cancellation policy visible

No

Refund policy visible

No

Invoice payment available

Yes

Purchase orders supported

Unknown

MSA required

Unknown

DPA available

Yes

Security review required

Unknown

Trial

Available, no card

API readiness
API & developer surface

API-first product

Yes

Sandbox present

Unknown

Webhooks

Yes

MCP mentioned

Yes

Rate limits

Professional tier includes 250,000 API requests per month

Enterprise signals
Trust & compliance

SSO / SAML

Yes

RBAC

Yes

Audit logs

Unknown

Competitive intel
Positioning & ecosystem
Headline

“Everything you need to start building.”

Buyer persona

developer
enterprise

Agent purchase simulation
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Directus?
✓

Discover price

✓

Select a plan

✗

Pay per task

✓

Avoid a sales call

◐

API docs without auth

✗

Estimate cost upfront

Analysis
Pros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-06. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.
✓ For an AI agent
  • Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
  • Every advertised tier is self-serve; no tier requires scheduling a call.
◐ Opportunities for the provider
  • No per-unit price was advertised, so an agent has no way to estimate the cost of a single task.
  • API documentation is gated or absent; an agent cannot inspect the integration surface without authentication.
  • PPU requires account creation and an issued API key; a fully unauthenticated agent purchase is not yet supported.
  • No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
One-line fix
How Directus could lift its score

Add a per-unit price (e.g. $X / 1K calls) to the pricing page so an agent can compute its own cost before committing.

pricing_visible

true

headline_phrasing

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tier_count

5

lowest_paid_entry_usd

99

free_tier

false

free_tier_terms

null

per_unit_price

null

annual_required

true

self_serve_paid_tiers

4

sales_only_tiers

0

public_api_docs_url

https://directus.io/docs

api_docs_auth_walled

false

ai_pricing_json_present

false

agents_txt_present

false

anonymous_purchase_path

false

per_unit_classification

null

usage_headline_present

false

custom_tier_present

true

agent_friendly

{"ai_pricing_json":false,"agents_txt":false,"llms_txt":false,"sitemap_xml":true,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false}

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Agent-Ready Spec
Directus
Approaching Agent-Ready

70

/ 100 (rubric v2.0)
Category

Headless Cms

Pricing model

Pricing | Self-hosting and Cloud — See what everyone's been building with Directus

Tier count

5

Free tier

No

Lowest paid entry

$99/mo

Self-serve / sales-only tiers

4 / 0

Public API docs

Public

Anonymous purchase path

No

Machine-readable pricing

Not published

Last refreshed

2026-05-09

Pricing intelligenceInsights extracted from directus.io/pricing/
Pricing model

Annual-only tier subscription

Agent-purchase verdict
Agent-ready
75/100 · v2.1
Canonical answer

Directus pricing starts at $0/mo for the Free plan; paid Professional plan at $99/mo billed annually. No monthly billing option is shown.

Cheapest entry

Free plan (Free)

Actions
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Verdict reflects Approaching Agent-Ready status under rubric v2.0. Source observed at https://directus.io/pricing/.
Agent-friendly features1 of 7 present
Discovery files and protocols
Side-channel signals — informational, not part of the score. Each protocol is independent; adoption signals the publisher is thinking about agent buyers.

ai-pricing.json

agents.txt

llms.txt

sitemap.xml

MCP Server Card

Agent Skills

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