Open-source alternative  ·  Headless CMS

Replace Sanity with Directus.

Open source data platform that wraps any SQL database with a real-time REST + GraphQL API. Admin app, flows, dashboards. Self-hosted, database-agnostic.

You'd keep~R19 200 to ~R66 000/year

Current licence  ·  Headless CMS

Sanity

~R19 200 – ~R66 000/yr

10-user estimate

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Directus

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R66 000/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Sanity's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Team

R19 200/yr

R1 600/month

With Directus

Keep R19 200/yr

Enterprise

R66 000/yr

R5 500/month

With Directus

Keep R66 000/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Sanity grows around 10% per year on average. Directus hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR29kR58kR88kR117kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R106kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.44M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

SanityDirectus, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.