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	10.1	70,376	9,265	69	104	1,111	10	51	7	621
Ghost	12.5	51,188	11,159	58	99	779	8	-12	8	539
Statamic	8.0	4,613	592	37	80	337	13	-19	12	2,734
Directus	12.9	33,497	4,465	47	78	494	19	-30	11	2,295
Pimcore	14.0	3,668	1,491	23	68	631	8	-38	4	965
Craft CMS	8.8	3,498	681	14	33	285	7	3	5	2,973
Netlify CMS	10.8	18,695	3,103	20	26	586	4	-35	4	933
Tina	6.3	12,910	670	17	26	149	8	8	13	1,110
Keystone	7.6	9,770	1,243	7	13	282	5	-41	3	941
ApostropheCMS	12.8	4,504	617	4	11	132	3	-27	3	1,418
Webiny	7.9	7,889	661	3	8	84	7	-33	4	3,342
Squidex	9.2	2,459	509	5	7	77	8	-22	7	9,158
Publii	7.4	6,962	451	1	3	23	10	-25	5	5,869

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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