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	11.9	27,841	3,874	78	113	444	18	9	21	2,556
Pimcore	13.0	3,401	1,435	49	111	607	12	-7	9	998
Ghost	11.5	47,320	10,335	61	108	708	7	-20	9	570
Statamic	6.9	4,019	529	59	100	299	31	10	25	2,866
Strapi	9.1	63,528	8,065	35	68	1,035	11	-53	4	644
Netlify CMS	9.8	17,905	3,043	31	42	566	5	0	6	963
Craft CMS	7.8	3,271	635	7	30	270	6	0	3	2,968
Tina	5.3	11,927	605	19	26	132	22	30	17	1,148
Keystone	6.6	9,232	1,155	13	23	275	10	-59	5	939
ApostropheCMS	11.7	4,358	590	4	15	128	5	-17	3	1,443
Webiny	6.8	7,376	612	3	11	80	7	0	4	3,212
Squidex	8.2	2,261	453	7	9	71	12	50	11	9,184
Publii	6.4	6,279	415	0	3	21	11	-50	0	5,904

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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