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	12.2	29,362	4,075	86	115	473	18	2	22	2,460
Ghost	11.8	48,516	10,576	59	102	732	7	-32	9	559
Statamic	7.3	4,268	554	53	99	313	30	14	20	2,816
Pimcore	13.3	3,490	1,463	38	93	613	11	-20	7	989
Strapi	9.4	65,222	8,362	41	73	1,057	11	-36	4	638
Craft CMS	8.1	3,328	645	13	36	276	6	29	5	2,956
Netlify CMS	10.1	18,163	3,064	21	31	569	4	-46	4	955
Tina	5.6	12,329	630	22	26	137	14	53	19	1,136
Keystone	6.9	9,435	1,180	10	19	277	8	-56	4	943
ApostropheCMS	12.1	4,401	598	4	15	128	4	-6	3	1,435
Webiny	7.1	7,516	621	4	10	81	7	11	5	3,215
Squidex	8.5	2,331	468	6	9	73	9	29	9	9,179
Publii	6.7	6,556	432	1	4	22	13	-33	5	5,851

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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