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	10.6	72,002	9,676	108	153	1,176	9	96	10	609
Statamic	8.4	4,795	623	42	97	365	10	-5	13	2,235
Ghost	13.0	52,667	11,512	49	90	793	7	-16	7	519
Directus	13.4	34,914	4,728	57	87	537	16	-22	12	2,198
Pimcore	14.5	3,747	1,504	22	64	636	6	-17	4	955
Netlify CMS	11.3	19,011	3,113	28	35	597	4	75	5	908
Tina	6.8	13,295	691	21	30	158	7	20	15	1,071
Craft CMS	9.2	3,558	689	12	27	290	5	-23	4	3,010
ApostropheCMS	13.2	4,551	626	6	13	134	3	8	5	1,406
Keystone	8.1	9,868	1,249	6	12	285	4	-37	2	943
Webiny	8.3	7,971	668	3	9	84	5	-10	4	3,322
Squidex	9.7	2,489	522	3	6	78	5	-46	4	9,140
Publii	7.9	7,165	453	1	3	23	8	-25	5	5,901

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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