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	10.3	70,817	9,339	73	110	1,124	10	47	7	619
Ghost	12.7	51,466	11,242	55	96	781	8	-9	8	536
Directus	13.1	33,810	4,511	37	73	504	19	-40	8	2,280
Statamic	8.1	4,666	597	34	73	339	12	-26	11	2,729
Pimcore	14.2	3,694	1,498	21	68	632	7	-36	3	961
Craft CMS	8.9	3,524	684	13	30	285	7	-12	5	2,976
Tina	6.4	13,019	675	17	26	151	7	8	13	1,098
Netlify CMS	10.9	18,773	3,111	19	25	587	4	-29	3	930
Keystone	7.7	9,816	1,247	6	12	282	5	-43	2	942
ApostropheCMS	12.9	4,507	620	4	11	132	3	-27	3	1,414
Webiny	8.0	7,908	660	3	8	84	6	-27	4	3,352
Squidex	9.3	2,471	512	4	6	77	8	-25	6	9,158
Publii	7.5	7,017	458	1	3	23	10	-25	5	5,886

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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