Open-Source Headless CMS Index

In recent years, headless CMSs have been a hot topic in IT infrastructure, and their open-source solutions represent a significant portion of that infrastructure. That’s why we have launched this dedicated index for open-source headless content management systems.

We automatically source the full list of open-source headless CMSs from jamstack.org and calculate daily updated metrics based on Github data. Then we include only top repos with 1000+ Github stars and 3+ active contributors (made commits in the repo in the last 12 months).

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Age	Github repo age in years
⭐️	Github repo stars
⑂	Github repo forks
NC	new contributors, who made their first commit in the repo in the last 12 months
AC	active contributors, who made commits in the repo in the last 12 months
TC	total contributors, who made commits in the repo since its inception
SG	annual star growth
ACG	annual active contributors growth
TCG	annual total contributors growth
HHI	the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index calculated by share of commits (decentralization metric)

Name	Age	⭐️	⑂	NC	AC	TC	SG	ACG	TCG	HHI
Strapi	10.5	71,718	9,591	94	139	1,157	9	85	9	612
Statamic	8.4	4,764	617	43	95	360	10	0	14	2,244
Ghost	12.9	52,182	11,400	49	89	792	7	-18	7	523
Directus	13.3	34,599	4,657	49	82	528	17	-29	10	2,213
Pimcore	14.4	3,741	1,505	21	68	635	6	-18	3	957
Netlify CMS	11.2	18,998	3,105	22	29	591	4	32	4	915
Tina	6.7	13,243	686	19	28	156	7	8	14	1,081
Craft CMS	9.2	3,561	684	12	27	289	7	-23	4	3,007
ApostropheCMS	13.1	4,545	625	6	13	134	3	8	5	1,407
Keystone	8.0	9,858	1,250	5	10	283	4	-47	2	942
Webiny	8.2	7,956	660	3	8	84	5	-20	4	3,318
Squidex	9.6	2,487	520	4	6	77	5	-33	6	9,148
Publii	7.8	7,146	456	1	3	23	8	-25	5	5,887

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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