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	12.2	29,023	4,056	85	115	470	18	1	22	2,473
Ghost	11.8	48,354	10,532	59	103	731	7	-32	9	561
Statamic	7.2	4,239	549	52	98	309	31	17	20	2,827
Pimcore	13.3	3,479	1,459	43	96	612	12	-11	8	993
Strapi	9.4	64,959	8,318	41	72	1,055	11	-38	4	638
Craft CMS	8.0	3,316	642	11	34	274	6	21	4	2,950
Netlify CMS	10.1	18,125	3,066	22	32	569	4	-42	4	956
Tina	5.6	12,283	627	21	25	136	14	47	18	1,139
Keystone	6.9	9,415	1,177	11	21	276	8	-53	4	942
ApostropheCMS	12.0	4,393	596	4	15	128	4	-12	3	1,437
Webiny	7.1	7,500	623	4	10	81	7	11	5	3,215
Squidex	8.5	2,320	464	6	8	73	9	14	9	9,182
Publii	6.7	6,525	430	1	4	22	13	-33	5	5,839

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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