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	12.4	30,001	4,158	80	112	479	18	1	20	2,424
Ghost	12.0	49,057	10,730	61	104	743	7	-28	9	554
Statamic	7.4	4,342	568	50	97	318	28	14	19	2,802
Pimcore	13.5	3,545	1,470	29	77	614	11	-40	5	983
Strapi	9.6	66,313	8,494	48	77	1,067	11	-22	5	634
Craft CMS	8.2	3,402	665	13	36	278	8	24	5	2,965
Tina	5.8	12,447	637	20	25	137	12	56	17	1,132
Netlify CMS	10.3	18,280	3,069	15	20	569	5	-67	3	955
Keystone	7.1	9,506	1,188	11	20	279	8	-46	4	944
ApostropheCMS	12.2	4,421	601	1	12	128	4	-25	1	1,431
Squidex	8.7	2,377	480	8	11	75	10	57	12	9,172
Webiny	7.3	7,571	622	4	10	81	7	11	5	3,213
Publii	6.9	6,663	441	1	4	22	12	-33	5	5,855

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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