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
Ghost	12.2	49,591	10,873	71	115	757	7	-7	10	547
Directus	12.6	31,004	4,250	73	107	485	18	-5	18	2,395
Statamic	7.6	4,430	574	47	93	325	24	1	17	2,774
Strapi	9.8	67,160	8,656	55	81	1,076	9	-2	5	631
Pimcore	13.7	3,590	1,471	25	72	615	11	-42	4	979
Craft CMS	8.4	3,448	673	13	31	280	8	3	5	2,979
Tina	5.9	12,605	650	16	25	138	10	39	13	1,126
Netlify CMS	10.4	18,423	3,069	15	19	573	4	-60	3	949
Keystone	7.2	9,610	1,200	8	17	279	7	-47	3	944
Squidex	8.8	2,409	492	7	11	75	10	57	10	9,173
ApostropheCMS	12.4	4,452	611	1	9	128	4	-47	1	1,427
Webiny	7.5	7,614	631	3	9	82	6	-25	4	3,209
Publii	7.0	6,778	451	1	4	22	12	0	5	5,874

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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