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	50,241	10,991	83	128	770	8	20	12	544
Directus	12.7	31,923	4,331	65	100	488	19	-12	15	2,335
Strapi	9.9	68,986	8,839	61	89	1,083	11	24	6	628
Statamic	7.7	4,484	582	42	88	329	23	-9	15	2,760
Pimcore	13.8	3,604	1,472	23	65	619	9	-46	4	973
Craft CMS	8.5	3,463	677	18	38	285	8	31	7	2,980
Tina	6.1	12,677	657	13	24	141	9	9	10	1,118
Keystone	7.4	9,647	1,227	9	19	281	7	-30	3	942
Netlify CMS	10.6	18,516	3,087	9	15	575	5	-71	2	942
ApostropheCMS	12.5	4,473	614	3	10	131	4	-41	2	1,423
Squidex	9.0	2,429	498	7	10	75	10	67	10	9,174
Webiny	7.6	7,639	635	2	7	82	5	-46	3	3,208
Publii	7.2	6,843	450	1	4	22	12	0	5	5,874

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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