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	12.2	49,905	10,935	78	123	764	8	12	11	546
Directus	12.6	31,730	4,305	70	101	487	19	-11	17	2,340
Statamic	7.7	4,458	576	44	90	326	24	-6	16	2,768
Strapi	9.8	68,421	8,767	56	83	1,078	10	5	6	629
Pimcore	13.7	3,600	1,470	24	67	617	10	-46	4	976
Craft CMS	8.5	3,453	672	18	38	285	8	31	7	2,977
Tina	6.0	12,633	652	13	25	139	10	19	10	1,123
Netlify CMS	10.5	18,482	3,078	15	20	574	5	-58	3	944
Keystone	7.3	9,627	1,207	8	17	279	7	-45	3	944
Squidex	8.9	2,418	495	7	10	75	9	43	10	9,174
ApostropheCMS	12.4	4,462	611	1	9	129	4	-50	1	1,424
Webiny	7.5	7,628	633	2	7	82	6	-46	3	3,208
Publii	7.1	6,815	452	1	4	22	12	0	5	5,874

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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