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	10.9	72,826	9,822	159	208	1,242	6	134	15	593
Ghost	13.3	54,724	11,872	87	132	897	9	3	11	505
Directus	13.7	37,270	4,897	76	95	564	17	-5	16	2,134
Statamic	8.7	4,863	637	41	95	374	9	6	12	2,209
Pimcore	14.8	3,823	1,514	26	67	649	6	-4	4	936
Netlify CMS	11.6	19,286	3,122	34	41	609	4	173	6	886
Tina	7.1	13,717	738	27	36	168	8	50	19	1,042
Craft CMS	9.5	3,600	704	13	27	298	4	-29	5	3,063
ApostropheCMS	13.5	4,597	643	10	17	141	3	70	8	1,401
Keystone	8.4	9,938	1,260	7	14	288	3	-26	3	944
Squidex	10.0	2,510	519	6	9	81	3	-10	8	9,123
Webiny	8.6	8,027	673	3	8	85	5	14	4	3,319
Publii	8.2	7,281	465	0	3	23	6	-40	0	5,938

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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