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	10.4	71,252	9,473	80	120	1,138	10	62	8	616
Ghost	12.8	51,777	11,322	55	96	786	7	-7	8	530
Statamic	8.2	4,708	608	39	87	350	11	-12	13	2,267
Directus	13.2	34,185	4,556	43	75	513	18	-35	9	2,261
Pimcore	14.3	3,713	1,507	20	66	633	7	-33	3	959
Craft CMS	9.0	3,529	681	13	28	287	6	-18	5	2,995
Netlify CMS	11.1	18,899	3,110	19	26	588	4	-19	3	928
Tina	6.6	13,112	683	16	25	152	7	0	12	1,092
ApostropheCMS	13.0	4,522	626	4	11	132	3	-27	3	1,411
Keystone	7.9	9,842	1,246	6	11	282	5	-48	2	943
Webiny	8.1	7,939	659	3	8	84	6	-20	4	3,339
Squidex	9.5	2,480	517	4	6	77	7	-25	6	9,159
Publii	7.7	7,075	459	1	3	23	9	-25	5	5,887

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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