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	10.4	71,447	9,516	85	129	1,144	10	74	8	614
Ghost	12.8	51,949	11,351	58	97	790	7	-5	8	527
Statamic	8.3	4,726	616	40	90	355	10	-9	13	2,255
Directus	13.2	34,343	4,586	45	77	519	17	-34	10	2,242
Pimcore	14.3	3,725	1,508	20	66	633	7	-28	3	959
Netlify CMS	11.1	18,968	3,104	20	27	589	4	-13	4	923
Craft CMS	9.1	3,541	681	12	27	288	6	-25	4	3,002
Tina	6.6	13,185	682	16	25	153	7	-4	12	1,088
ApostropheCMS	13.1	4,530	626	5	12	133	3	-20	4	1,408
Keystone	7.9	9,843	1,249	5	10	282	4	-47	2	943
Webiny	8.1	7,941	656	3	8	84	6	-20	4	3,326
Squidex	9.5	2,483	519	4	6	77	7	-33	6	9,151
Publii	7.7	7,103	459	1	3	23	8	-25	5	5,887

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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