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	28,277	3,941	84	117	453	19	11	23	2,540
Ghost	11.6	47,644	10,391	61	108	722	7	-26	9	566
Pimcore	13.1	3,430	1,443	49	105	608	12	-5	9	997
Statamic	7.0	4,123	540	57	100	303	33	21	23	2,850
Strapi	9.2	63,997	8,153	39	71	1,045	11	-44	4	641
Netlify CMS	9.9	17,975	3,050	28	38	566	5	-16	5	961
Craft CMS	7.9	3,286	638	9	34	272	6	21	3	2,958
Keystone	6.7	9,298	1,162	12	22	275	10	-56	5	940
Tina	5.4	12,041	610	17	22	132	16	16	15	1,146
ApostropheCMS	11.8	4,366	590	4	15	128	5	-17	3	1,439
Webiny	6.9	7,415	613	4	12	81	7	9	5	3,226
Squidex	8.3	2,279	455	7	9	72	11	50	11	9,183
Publii	6.5	6,350	420	0	3	21	12	-50	0	5,867

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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