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	11.0	73,230	9,883	173	221	1,261	4	148	16	587
Ghost	13.4	55,424	11,985	96	142	910	7	13	12	496
Directus	13.8	37,961	4,958	83	104	573	13	28	17	2,116
Statamic	8.8	4,899	643	46	102	382	7	17	14	2,181
Pimcore	14.9	3,855	1,514	25	59	653	5	-18	4	928
Netlify CMS	11.7	19,402	3,133	36	44	615	4	120	6	874
Tina	7.2	13,804	757	28	39	173	7	50	19	1,026
Craft CMS	9.7	3,608	704	15	30	300	3	-19	5	3,068
ApostropheCMS	13.6	4,628	653	11	18	142	2	80	8	1,400
Keystone	8.5	9,978	1,265	8	16	289	2	23	3	944
Squidex	10.1	2,507	522	4	8	81	2	-11	5	9,124
Webiny	8.7	8,044	677	3	8	85	2	33	4	3,341

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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