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	12.3	29,712	4,123	83	114	478	18	-3	21	2,439
Ghost	11.9	48,824	10,663	67	109	743	7	-28	10	555
Statamic	7.4	4,317	561	48	95	315	29	7	18	2,806
Pimcore	13.4	3,528	1,469	32	83	614	12	-32	6	987
Strapi	9.5	65,864	8,445	42	74	1,061	11	-31	4	635
Craft CMS	8.2	3,342	645	12	34	276	6	21	5	2,963
Tina	5.7	12,403	639	21	26	137	13	63	18	1,133
Netlify CMS	10.2	18,240	3,067	15	22	569	5	-65	3	955
Keystone	7.0	9,487	1,186	10	19	278	8	-49	4	943
ApostropheCMS	12.1	4,415	602	2	12	128	4	-20	2	1,433
Webiny	7.2	7,553	622	4	10	81	7	11	5	3,213
Squidex	8.6	2,361	473	6	9	73	10	29	9	9,180
Publii	6.8	6,620	439	1	4	22	12	-33	5	5,854

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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