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
Strapi	10.2	70,656	9,314	68	105	1,118	10	44	7	619
Ghost	12.6	51,360	11,228	57	99	781	8	-5	8	536
Statamic	8.1	4,654	597	34	77	339	12	-22	11	2,729
Directus	13.0	33,687	4,494	34	70	497	19	-43	7	2,282
Pimcore	14.1	3,688	1,494	22	67	632	7	-36	4	962
Craft CMS	8.9	3,521	684	13	30	285	7	-12	5	2,975
Netlify CMS	10.9	18,749	3,116	21	27	587	4	-23	4	932
Tina	6.4	12,972	675	17	26	151	7	8	13	1,100
Keystone	7.7	9,794	1,248	6	12	282	5	-46	2	942
ApostropheCMS	12.9	4,507	620	4	11	132	3	-27	3	1,415
Webiny	7.9	7,901	659	3	8	84	6	-33	4	3,352
Squidex	9.3	2,470	511	4	6	77	8	-33	6	9,158
Publii	7.5	7,003	454	1	3	23	10	-25	5	5,881

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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