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	11.0	73,200	9,879	173	220	1,260	5	150	16	588
Ghost	13.4	55,368	11,976	92	138	906	9	10	11	496
Statamic	8.8	4,894	641	48	104	382	8	22	14	2,183
Directus	13.8	37,927	4,953	81	102	571	17	24	17	2,117
Pimcore	14.9	3,849	1,514	25	59	653	6	-18	4	929
Netlify CMS	11.7	19,393	3,128	37	44	615	4	132	6	875
Tina	7.2	13,800	755	26	37	171	8	37	18	1,028
Craft CMS	9.7	3,609	705	15	30	300	4	-19	5	3,068
ApostropheCMS	13.6	4,622	652	11	18	142	3	80	8	1,400
Keystone	8.5	9,975	1,265	8	16	289	3	14	3	944
Squidex	10.1	2,510	522	5	9	81	3	13	7	9,123
Webiny	8.7	8,040	677	3	8	85	3	33	4	3,338

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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