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
Ghost	11.0	45,700	9,952	108	157	682	6	107	19	584
Pimcore	12.5	3,185	1,397	52	130	585	12	-9	10	1,015
Directus	11.4	25,373	3,527	82	125	400	19	12	26	2,778
Strapi	8.6	59,917	7,512	63	111	1,015	12	-35	7	660
Statamic	6.4	3,393	465	45	93	267	30	1	20	3,063
Netlify CMS	9.3	17,498	3,019	48	64	554	6	327	10	977
Keystone	6.1	8,842	1,120	26	41	269	13	-24	11	941
Craft CMS	7.2	3,156	607	7	30	265	6	-36	3	2,934
Tina	4.8	11,090	555	8	18	117	27	-38	7	1,194
ApostropheCMS	11.2	4,256	584	8	17	127	6	-19	7	1,467
Webiny	6.3	7,105	570	1	9	77	9	-57	1	3,251
Squidex	7.7	2,161	429	5	7	67	14	17	8	9,200
Publii	5.9	5,965	398	2	6	21	10	100	11	5,929

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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