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	12.4	29,958	4,155	80	112	479	18	-1	20	2,426
Ghost	12.0	49,036	10,719	61	104	743	7	-28	9	554
Statamic	7.4	4,342	567	50	97	318	28	16	19	2,802
Pimcore	13.5	3,545	1,470	31	77	614	12	-40	5	983
Strapi	9.6	66,249	8,489	48	77	1,067	11	-23	5	634
Craft CMS	8.2	3,397	660	13	36	278	8	24	5	2,965
Tina	5.7	12,438	637	20	25	137	12	56	17	1,132
Netlify CMS	10.3	18,276	3,069	15	20	569	5	-67	3	955
Keystone	7.0	9,501	1,188	11	20	279	8	-44	4	943
ApostropheCMS	12.2	4,422	601	1	12	128	4	-25	1	1,431
Squidex	8.6	2,377	477	8	11	75	10	57	12	9,172
Webiny	7.3	7,570	622	4	10	81	7	11	5	3,213
Publii	6.8	6,658	441	1	4	22	12	-33	5	5,855

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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