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
Directus	12.4	30,478	4,203	77	110	481	19	-2	19	2,414
Ghost	12.0	49,253	10,782	68	110	751	7	-22	10	550
Statamic	7.5	4,370	567	52	98	321	27	13	19	2,789
Strapi	9.6	66,618	8,543	49	77	1,069	10	-15	5	633
Pimcore	13.5	3,564	1,471	28	75	614	11	-41	5	981
Craft CMS	8.3	3,417	671	11	32	278	8	10	4	2,972
Tina	5.8	12,504	643	19	25	137	12	67	16	1,130
Netlify CMS	10.3	18,335	3,071	15	20	569	5	-58	3	955
Keystone	7.1	9,537	1,193	9	19	279	7	-39	3	944
Squidex	8.7	2,389	487	8	11	75	10	57	12	9,171
Webiny	7.4	7,590	627	4	10	81	6	11	5	3,210
ApostropheCMS	12.3	4,434	604	1	9	128	4	-47	1	1,430
Publii	6.9	6,704	445	1	4	22	12	-33	5	5,874

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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