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	10.5	71,860	9,632	97	143	1,164	9	81	9	611
Statamic	8.4	4,784	621	43	96	362	10	-1	14	2,239
Ghost	12.9	52,478	11,465	49	92	792	7	-13	7	522
Directus	13.3	34,780	4,698	52	83	532	16	-27	11	2,206
Pimcore	14.5	3,738	1,502	22	67	636	6	-16	4	956
Netlify CMS	11.2	18,997	3,113	22	29	591	4	38	4	915
Tina	6.7	13,266	688	19	28	156	7	12	14	1,075
Craft CMS	9.2	3,559	686	11	26	289	5	-28	4	3,007
ApostropheCMS	13.2	4,547	625	6	13	134	3	8	5	1,406
Webiny	8.3	7,960	664	3	9	84	5	-10	4	3,317
Keystone	8.0	9,860	1,247	4	9	283	4	-55	1	942
Squidex	9.6	2,485	520	4	6	78	5	-40	5	9,139
Publii	7.8	7,158	454	1	3	23	8	-25	5	5,887

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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