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	72,576	9,774	139	187	1,215	8	131	13	599
Ghost	13.2	54,218	11,763	77	121	834	9	3	10	502
Statamic	8.6	4,840	630	42	94	371	9	-1	13	2,226
Directus	13.6	36,401	4,809	65	92	551	17	-15	13	2,160
Pimcore	14.7	3,790	1,512	26	70	644	6	-7	4	945
Netlify CMS	11.5	19,189	3,117	32	40	605	4	111	6	892
Tina	6.9	13,605	725	28	35	166	8	40	20	1,052
Craft CMS	9.4	3,582	702	11	26	295	4	-30	4	3,059
ApostropheCMS	13.4	4,580	639	12	18	140	3	80	9	1,401
Keystone	8.2	9,902	1,265	8	13	287	3	-24	3	943
Webiny	8.5	7,994	675	3	9	85	5	0	4	3,316
Squidex	9.8	2,501	519	4	7	79	4	-36	5	9,132
Publii	8.0	7,230	460	0	3	23	7	-40	0	5,901

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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