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	11.1	73,364	9,894	179	227	1,280	5	134	16	582
Ghost	13.5	55,592	11,998	101	150	918	9	33	12	489
Directus	13.9	38,620	4,981	91	112	583	18	42	19	2,104
Statamic	8.9	4,910	651	49	101	387	8	19	15	2,162
Pimcore	15.0	3,879	1,515	23	61	655	6	-14	4	919
Tina	7.3	13,842	768	37	48	182	8	100	26	1,015
Netlify CMS	11.8	19,442	3,142	32	40	615	4	67	6	842
Craft CMS	9.7	3,622	710	17	33	302	4	-3	6	3,070
ApostropheCMS	13.7	4,653	653	15	22	146	4	120	12	1,398
Keystone	8.6	9,980	1,260	9	17	290	2	42	3	944
Squidex	10.2	2,512	526	4	8	81	3	0	5	9,125
Webiny	8.8	8,048	683	1	8	85	2	0	1	3,367

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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