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	10.6	72,212	9,726	115	160	1,186	8	105	11	606
Statamic	8.5	4,809	626	43	94	368	10	-7	13	2,236
Ghost	13.0	53,549	11,638	45	88	797	9	-21	6	515
Directus	13.4	35,829	4,772	55	84	539	17	-26	11	2,196
Pimcore	14.6	3,758	1,507	25	67	639	5	-10	4	952
Netlify CMS	11.3	19,065	3,118	28	35	599	4	59	5	903
Tina	6.8	13,344	705	26	33	163	7	32	19	1,063
Craft CMS	9.3	3,570	693	13	28	291	4	-15	5	3,048
ApostropheCMS	13.3	4,556	629	6	13	134	3	44	5	1,405
Keystone	8.1	9,873	1,255	7	12	286	4	-37	3	943
Webiny	8.4	7,978	671	4	10	85	5	0	5	3,323
Squidex	9.7	2,492	523	4	6	79	4	-46	5	9,138
Publii	7.9	7,188	457	0	3	23	7	-40	0	5,901

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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