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	30,031	4,169	79	111	479	18	-2	20	2,421
Ghost	12.0	49,070	10,732	61	104	743	7	-28	9	554
Statamic	7.4	4,344	568	51	99	319	28	19	19	2,798
Pimcore	13.5	3,545	1,470	29	77	614	11	-40	5	982
Strapi	9.6	66,348	8,501	48	77	1,067	11	-22	5	634
Craft CMS	8.2	3,402	666	13	35	278	8	17	5	2,966
Tina	5.8	12,454	637	20	25	137	12	67	17	1,132
Netlify CMS	10.3	18,288	3,070	15	20	569	5	-60	3	955
Keystone	7.1	9,509	1,189	10	19	279	8	-46	4	944
ApostropheCMS	12.2	4,424	601	1	12	128	4	-25	1	1,431
Squidex	8.7	2,377	480	8	11	75	10	57	12	9,172
Webiny	7.3	7,572	623	4	10	81	7	11	5	3,213
Publii	6.9	6,665	441	1	4	22	12	-33	5	5,855

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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