Directus Cloud is a tiered offering built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), delivering a proven backend infrastructure, lightning-fast performance, an intuitive dashboard, and a growing number of cloud-exclusive extensions.
Let's take a walk through the Cloud offerings and take an in-depth look at how our self-service, usage-based pricing model for Standard Cloud can save you money while delivering flexibility and scale for your project.
Free and Open-Source. Forever.
Community Cloud is free and ideal for demos, proofs-of-concept, and hobby projects.
Standard Cloud is perfect for small and medium-sized production projects and is delivered via a usage-based pricing model. With Standard Cloud, you can configure the exact hardware you need and apply customized auto-scaling rules with a wide array of configuration options.
Enterprise Cloud provides maximum flexibility and scale to power large projects or entire organizations. It’s completely tailored to your project and offers various features and custom extensions. It runs on dedicated servers in a single-tenant environment.
Community and Standard Cloud are self-service, while Enterprise is tailored to fit your requirements by our team of cloud specialists. When you sign up for Directus, you’ll have the opportunity to select the best cloud tier for your project. You can learn more about the differences between the three tiers here.
The core platform has unlimited users, access roles, content collections and items, content locales, API requests, and bandwidth. If you opt for Standard Cloud, you also get automated backups to ensure your data and applications are always protected. Another great feature of Standard Cloud is choosing the region for your servers, enhancing performance further.
We do the heavy lifting
What's the best thing about Directus? No matter what tier is chosen, we take care of all the infrastructure and maintenance, slashing the cost of DevOps and infrastructure to a minimum. For example, the Directus on-premises solution. While the software is 100% free and open-source, when self-hosting, you need to stand up enough servers and infrastructure to support it. When your needs increase, you need more infrastructure, adding to the capital cost and operating overhead.
Directus provides everything you need to take advantage of our software for pennies per hour, including the database, serverless cluster, load balancer, file storage, and a global CDN. You can get up and running immediately with Directus, without any capital expenses, and increase the size of your IT department with one click, benefiting from the expertise of Directus and DevOps specialists.
Understanding our Standard Cloud pricing
Our pricing model for Standard Cloud is revolutionary – none of our competitors offer such affordable and transparent pass-through pricing based solely on infrastructure usage. Since it’s so unique, let’s see how it works and how it will drastically reduce your DevOps overhead.
Standard Cloud is usage-based pricing, which means you pay as you go meaning you only pay for the infrastructure you use by the hour. Other vendors price their services based on how many content items you have or how many API requests you make in a given month. Directus Standard Cloud has no quotas or limitations or a monthly fee. Instead, you pay just $.0347 per node per hour you use the platform.
Directus Standard Cloud is a serverless solution – you can make it as big or small as you like. Configure it to be scalable for your infrastructure needs, vertically and horizontally, based on your capacity needs. Are you anticipating a spike in traffic? Reserve extra capacity to handle the overage. It doesn’t cost you a penny until you use it!
When you create your Directus Cloud project, choosing Standard Cloud enables multiple configuration options. First, you need a custom URL. Then, select a region based on the proximity to your primary end users or for compliance reasons.
The following three options determine your pricing:
Node Type: First, choose a Node Type for your project which enables vertical scaling. (You can change this option anytime, with no downtime.) The General Purpose tier offers a mix of server specs covering most use cases. Usage is billed at $.034/hour per node, roughly $25.00/month per node, assuming the nodes are running 24/7. The Performance tier offers improved data processing, parallel operations, and larger asset support. Again, usage is billed at $.068/hour per node or about $50.00/month per node.
Active Nodes: Active nodes provide load balancing by enabling infrastructure to scale horizontally, handling rapid spikes in usage or traffic. When you create your project, configure how many nodes you want to be available at all times.
Standby Nodes: During periods of high usage, standby nodes can be automatically added to ensure your project stays online. You are only billed for the hours that they are active, which adds a range to your cost estimate. All nodes are billed at the same rate, whether active or standby, either $.034 or $.068, depending on the tier you selected for your active nodes.
After selecting these options, you’ll be given an estimated monthly price, which is the price you would pay if your project runs 24 hours/day for the entire month. This estimate doesn’t include potential overages if standby nodes kick in.
Visit the Directus pricing page to learn more or get started now on Directus Cloud.