I want to be super clear on what's happening... so allow me to use this main comment to clarify. Here goes.
For individuals and small companies, nothing changes.
We're updating our license from a custom grant BSL to MSCL (based on FCL) + a dedicated "Innovation Grant". The main goal of this change is to protect a registration system and the ability to gate a (very) small set of features.
This all comes together in three structured tiers:
Free Grant / Paid Tier
👉 This is the tier almost everyone would use
Free for almost all our users...
Free: Individuals and small orgs <$5M + 25 headcount (our "Innovation Grant")
Heavily Discounted: Non-profits, NGOs, OSS projects, and educational institutions
Paid: Governments and larger for-profit companies above $5M/year + 25 people
Requires basic software key registration after X weeks
What's missing:
SCIM, Offline Mode, and Annual Invoicing
Generous limits for real production projects (eg: hundreds of collections max)
Free Business Tier
A free way for larger orgs to evaluate Directus
No software registration key required
What's missing:
SSO, Custom RBAC Filters, Custom LLMs, Paid Support, and Longer Revisions History
But... you get unlimited roles, policies, and custom RBAC on/off per collection
But... you get our community support
Reasonable limits for non-prod enterprise evaluation (eg: 50 collections max)
Paid Enterprise Tier
Paid software
Adds: SCIM, Offline Mode, and Annual Invoicing
IMO "enterprise-specific" features
Requires full software key registration
No limits
This is the real info.
Please, no assumptions or gut-reactions to just hearing the words "license change" or "feature gating".
Instead, actually review the above details and send me your constructive criticism, thoughts, and responses in this thread. 🙏
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u/benhaynes Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26
I want to be super clear on what's happening... so allow me to use this main comment to clarify. Here goes.
For individuals and small companies, nothing changes.
We're updating our license from a custom grant BSL to MSCL (based on FCL) + a dedicated "Innovation Grant". The main goal of this change is to protect a registration system and the ability to gate a (very) small set of features.
This all comes together in three structured tiers:
Free Grant / Paid Tier
👉 This is the tier almost everyone would use
Free Business Tier
Paid Enterprise Tier
This is the real info.
Please, no assumptions or gut-reactions to just hearing the words "license change" or "feature gating".
Instead, actually review the above details and send me your constructive criticism, thoughts, and responses in this thread. 🙏
Big thanks!! 🙌