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	10.8	72,691	9,803	153	202	1,232	6	141	14	596
Ghost	13.2	54,480	11,818	81	127	884	9	3	10	508
Statamic	8.7	4,849	632	43	97	373	9	5	13	2,218
Directus	13.6	36,702	4,853	72	96	559	16	-5	15	2,145
Pimcore	14.7	3,807	1,513	31	71	649	6	4	5	941
Netlify CMS	11.5	19,250	3,113	33	40	607	4	100	6	889
Tina	7.0	13,668	733	28	35	167	8	35	20	1,044
Craft CMS	9.5	3,584	703	12	28	297	4	-26	4	3,062
ApostropheCMS	13.5	4,590	645	12	19	141	3	111	9	1,401
Keystone	8.3	9,922	1,263	8	13	288	3	-28	3	944
Webiny	8.5	8,016	676	3	9	85	5	29	4	3,321
Squidex	9.9	2,504	517	4	7	79	4	-30	5	9,132
Publii	8.1	7,261	463	0	3	23	7	-40	0	5,920

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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