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	50,965	11,107	72	113	776	8	9	10	542
Strapi	10.1	69,810	9,024	54	87	1,088	11	34	5	626
Directus	12.9	32,734	4,400	49	82	490	20	-33	11	2,319
Statamic	7.9	4,564	588	36	82	332	17	-16	12	2,748
Pimcore	14.0	3,651	1,481	20	68	627	9	-39	3	968
Craft CMS	8.7	3,483	680	15	36	285	7	20	6	2,984
Tina	6.2	12,804	662	14	25	145	8	0	11	1,114
Netlify CMS	10.8	18,612	3,093	14	21	580	4	-56	3	939
Keystone	7.5	9,717	1,232	6	13	281	6	-46	2	939
ApostropheCMS	12.7	4,489	615	3	10	131	3	-33	2	1,422
Squidex	9.1	2,449	507	7	9	77	9	13	10	9,157
Webiny	7.8	7,855	654	1	6	82	7	-54	1	3,343
Publii	7.3	6,904	453	2	4	23	11	33	10	5,884

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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