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	10.7	72,331	9,737	123	169	1,196	8	114	12	603
Ghost	13.1	53,869	11,701	62	105	816	9	-7	8	509
Statamic	8.6	4,821	628	43	97	371	9	1	13	2,230
Directus	13.5	36,010	4,791	64	93	548	17	-14	13	2,167
Pimcore	14.6	3,780	1,509	23	66	639	6	-13	4	951
Netlify CMS	11.4	19,136	3,120	31	39	603	4	70	5	897
Tina	6.9	13,399	712	27	34	165	7	36	20	1,057
Craft CMS	9.4	3,577	698	12	28	293	4	-18	4	3,051
ApostropheCMS	13.3	4,566	638	8	15	136	3	67	6	1,404
Keystone	8.2	9,882	1,263	8	13	287	3	-28	3	943
Webiny	8.4	7,992	673	3	9	85	5	-10	4	3,322
Squidex	9.8	2,498	521	4	6	79	4	-46	5	9,135
Publii	8.0	7,218	458	0	3	23	7	-40	0	5,901

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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