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	12.0	28,299	3,948	86	117	455	19	11	23	2,537
Pimcore	13.1	3,432	1,443	51	108	610	12	-3	9	996
Ghost	11.6	47,691	10,418	61	108	723	7	-26	9	565
Statamic	7.1	4,132	541	56	99	303	33	18	23	2,849
Strapi	9.2	64,048	8,161	39	72	1,045	11	-43	4	641
Netlify CMS	9.9	18,000	3,052	26	36	566	5	-23	5	961
Craft CMS	7.9	3,287	638	9	34	272	6	21	3	2,960
Tina	5.4	12,055	612	18	23	133	16	21	16	1,146
Keystone	6.7	9,303	1,162	11	21	275	10	-59	4	941
ApostropheCMS	11.8	4,365	590	4	15	128	5	-17	3	1,439
Webiny	6.9	7,421	613	4	12	81	7	9	5	3,226
Squidex	8.3	2,284	458	7	9	72	12	80	11	9,184
Publii	6.5	6,355	419	0	3	21	12	-50	0	5,867

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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