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	12.1	28,695	4,002	85	116	466	18	-1	22	2,510
Pimcore	13.2	3,453	1,449	52	107	612	12	3	9	994
Ghost	11.7	48,000	10,468	60	105	726	7	-29	9	564
Statamic	7.1	4,193	547	54	98	307	32	17	21	2,837
Strapi	9.3	64,580	8,252	39	69	1,049	11	-43	4	640
Netlify CMS	10.0	18,071	3,058	26	35	568	5	-30	5	960
Craft CMS	8.0	3,302	638	9	34	272	6	21	3	2,963
Tina	5.5	12,172	615	19	23	134	15	35	17	1,142
Keystone	6.8	9,357	1,172	12	21	276	8	-56	5	942
ApostropheCMS	11.9	4,377	595	4	15	128	4	-12	3	1,438
Webiny	7.0	7,456	617	4	11	81	7	22	5	3,221
Squidex	8.4	2,294	463	6	8	73	11	14	9	9,181
Publii	6.6	6,416	424	1	4	22	12	-33	5	5,839

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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