Directus vs MockForge

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Directus compared with MockForge
Detail	Directus	MockForge
What it does	Collaborative backend and self-hostable headless CMS over any database	Open-source API mock server for multiple protocols
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	Not given	US
Pricing model	Not given	Freemium
Pricing	Core plan free with 3 seats and 25 collections. Team plan $499/month with 10 SSO seats and 50 collections. Enterprise plan with custom pricing. Open Innovation Grant available free for organizations under $5M revenue and 50 employees.	Free: $0/month with 10,000 requests/month and local mocks only. Pro: $29/month with 250,000 requests/month, 100,000 platform AI tokens/month, and 3 hosted mocks. Team: $99/month with 1,000,000 requests/month, 1,000,000 platform AI tokens/month, and unlimited hosted mocks. Annual plans include 2 mont
Key features	REST and GraphQL API generation No-code admin interface Digital asset manager Real-time updates via WebSockets Visual editing with live preview Role-based access control AI Assistant for translations and content creation Native MCP server Customizable dashboards	Multi-protocol support (REST, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSocket, Kafka, MQTT and more) Realistic data synthesis with template tokens and faker fields Latency and fault injection for testing retries and fallbacks Record and replay for capturing and replaying live traffic Modern admin UI for managing servers, overrides and metrics Configuration as code with OpenAPI specs and YAML Local-first development without account requirement CI integration with local endpoints HTTP bridge exposing gRPC services over REST BYOK AI integration with user provider keys
What makes it different	Works over any existing database without abstraction layer AI agents operate under same access policies as human users Self-hostable with cloud option included Teams can work independently on shared data without manual synchronization Full backend operational in minutes	Multi-protocol mocking from one configuration file Realism-first simulation with data synthesis and failure injection Open source with permissive MIT or Apache-2.0 licensing Local-first approach with optional cloud collaboration Deploy to cloud hosting with a single command
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	74 no change since last check	9 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	36	0
Citation Flow (Majestic)	51	17
Referring domains (Majestic)	2894	7

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