Weegloo vs Directus

The short answer

Directus wraps your own database. Weegloo is a managed platform that includes the operations.

Said plainly, Directus is the strongest contender on this list. Data modelling, content management, localization, revisions, tags, comments, dashboards — on that list the two are effectively level. Someone who has used Directus will not find Weegloo strange, and the reverse holds too.

The difference is what each one stands on. Directus is a layer over a SQL database you already have, and that database and the server it runs on are yours. Weegloo is a managed platform that provides data, media, server logic, CDN, and hosting itself. Which is better depends on whether you already have a database, and whether you intend to keep operating it yourself.

What each one hands you out of the box

The two differences that actually decide it

1. Do you already have a database?

This is the first fork, and most of the rest follows from it.

If you already have a SQL database and it is the source of truth, Directus is strong. You put a management surface and an API over it without moving the schema. When other systems keep reading and writing that same database, few choices are more natural.

If you are starting fresh, or you would rather not operate a database, the picture changes. Using Directus means someone runs the database and the instance above it, and backups, upgrades, and scaling are that person's job. On Weegloo that work does not exist.

2. Outside the content — hosting, CDN, and cold starts

With data and CMS at parity, the difference opens up beyond them.

The site has to go somewhere. Directus does not host, so Vercel or Netlify goes alongside it, and a CDN sits in front separately. That is two or three vendors, and the outbound traffic moving between them accumulates as cost and latency. Weegloo has Web Hosting and CDN as features, so those round trips do not happen.

Server logic has no cold start. Weegloo's Script has no container to spin up, and direct call, content-change event, and cron scheduler all run the same Script. Sending email is a single statement.

The Marketplace — where you do not even build the front-end

The Directus marketplace installs extensions that widen Directus. The Weegloo Marketplace is not the widening kind but the wholesale kind — a whole service installs.

The Marketplace lists finished apps. One app can carry Content Type, Content, Media, SpaceRole, Locale, Script, Webhook, and the screens themselves as Web Hosting. Installing it brings all of that into your own Space — you are not a tenant on somebody else's service, you end up with a service where both the data and the screens are yours.

If the app includes screens, install it, swap in your own data, and it is a running service. If it has no front-end, you skip working out the data structures and writing Scripts from scratch — take what is already modelled and put your own front-end on top.

You do not have to use all of it

Use only the part you need. Keep working with your data in Directus and use Weegloo purely for media and CDN delivery, or only for static hosting. Moving everything and adding one piece are different decisions.

For the wider view, a table sets Weegloo against ten platforms across twenty criteria — Appwrite, Strapi, Payload, Sanity, Supabase, Firebase, Vercel, and Contentful included — in the comparison index. A capability a platform does not provide itself scores zero there.

Where Directus is the better choice

• An existing SQL database is the source of truth. Layering over it without moving the schema is something Weegloo cannot offer — especially when other systems keep reading and writing it.
• You want to hold SQL directly. If aggregations and window functions, your own indexes and query plans are the heart of the product, work with the database directly.
• You need open source, or to install and run it yourself. If the source code has to be in your hands to change, that is Directus. If only infrastructure separation or an air-gapped network is the requirement, a Weegloo Enterprise dedicated cluster covers it.
• Realtime subscriptions are needed. Directus provides them and Weegloo has no equivalent.
• You need to build your own extensions. Being able to drop in arbitrary code is not what Script is aimed at.

FAQ

Is Weegloo a Directus alternative?

For a product starting fresh, yes. It covers the same core — data modelling, CMS, localization, revisions, collaboration — and adds hosting, CDN, server logic with no cold start, and usage alerts. But if the goal is to wrap an existing SQL database, it is not an alternative. That is what Directus exists for.

Can I use my existing database?

No. Weegloo does not expose a database; data is modelled as Content Types and read through the delivery API. If your existing database is another system's source of truth and must stay that way, Directus is the right choice. If the data can move, the move itself is a script that reads from one API and writes to the other — a good task to hand an AI agent.

Do I have to operate it myself?

No. Weegloo is managed, so backups, upgrades, and scaling are not your job. Directus is open source, so you either run it yourself or use Directus Cloud — which is better depends on whether you want to hold the infrastructure.

Are hosting and CDN included?

Yes. Web Hosting puts a static front-end online with a custom domain, and CDN delivery comes with it. Directus is a data layer, so hosting sits elsewhere, and the outbound traffic between them accumulates as cost and latency.

Is realtime available?

No. Realtime subscriptions are Directus's and not Weegloo's. Reacting to a content change on the server works; a client subscribing to changes and receiving them live is a different capability.

Does it support scheduled jobs (cron)?

Yes. Scheduler runs a Script on a cron schedule. The same Script can be called directly or triggered by a content-change event, so running a scheduled job once, right now, is just a call.

How do I see usage? Will I know before I hit a limit?

Usage is shown in the console, per metric. And you can set a threshold as a percentage — when usage reaches it, an email arrives first.

Do I need an AI agent to use Weegloo?

No. There is a REST API and a console, and that is enough. It happens to expose its whole surface over MCP, so telling an agent like Claude, Cursor, or Codex what you want is usually faster.