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	10.2	70,470	9,277	70	104	1,115	10	47	7	620
Ghost	12.6	51,219	11,170	58	98	779	8	-10	8	539
Directus	13.0	33,519	4,472	47	80	496	19	-29	11	2,291
Statamic	8.0	4,624	594	36	79	338	13	-22	12	2,733
Pimcore	14.1	3,677	1,492	22	66	631	8	-38	4	964
Craft CMS	8.8	3,516	683	14	32	285	7	-3	5	2,973
Netlify CMS	10.8	18,709	3,110	20	26	586	4	-33	4	933
Tina	6.3	12,927	672	17	26	149	8	8	13	1,108
Keystone	7.6	9,778	1,243	7	13	282	5	-41	3	941
ApostropheCMS	12.8	4,505	619	4	11	132	3	-27	3	1,418
Webiny	7.9	7,893	659	3	8	84	7	-33	4	3,342
Squidex	9.2	2,463	508	5	7	77	9	-22	7	9,158
Publii	7.4	6,972	453	1	3	23	10	-25	5	5,873

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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