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	12.5	51,053	11,131	71	108	777	8	0	10	541
Strapi	10.1	70,162	9,218	68	96	1,102	11	41	7	623
Directus	12.9	33,335	4,443	49	79	493	20	-31	11	2,307
Statamic	7.9	4,585	586	34	79	333	14	-21	11	2,742
Pimcore	14.0	3,656	1,486	24	70	631	8	-37	4	967
Craft CMS	8.8	3,489	680	14	34	285	7	10	5	2,972
Tina	6.3	12,852	666	15	24	147	8	-11	11	1,113
Netlify CMS	10.8	18,661	3,096	14	21	580	4	-56	3	939
Keystone	7.6	9,749	1,239	7	13	282	6	-44	3	939
ApostropheCMS	12.7	4,496	616	3	10	131	3	-33	2	1,420
Squidex	9.2	2,457	508	6	9	77	9	13	9	9,157
Webiny	7.8	7,869	657	3	8	84	7	-33	4	3,343
Publii	7.4	6,939	452	2	4	23	11	33	10	5,884

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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