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
Ghost	12.3	50,482	11,021	82	128	770	8	17	12	544
Directus	12.7	32,230	4,358	57	101	488	20	-11	13	2,335
Strapi	9.9	69,369	8,901	61	89	1,083	11	24	6	628
Statamic	7.8	4,517	584	42	88	329	23	-9	15	2,760
Pimcore	13.8	3,621	1,477	18	68	618	9	-45	3	976
Craft CMS	8.6	3,469	678	18	38	285	8	31	7	2,980
Tina	6.1	12,735	659	13	24	141	9	9	10	1,118
Netlify CMS	10.6	18,554	3,089	9	21	575	4	-56	2	942
Keystone	7.4	9,674	1,230	8	19	281	6	-30	3	942
ApostropheCMS	12.6	4,478	614	3	10	131	3	-41	2	1,423
Squidex	9.0	2,437	501	5	10	75	9	43	7	9,174
Webiny	7.6	7,814	648	1	7	82	7	-46	1	3,208
Publii	7.2	6,862	450	1	4	22	12	-33	5	5,874

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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