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 500+ 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	contributors_qualified	AQC_4Q	Avg_DAU	Avg_WAU	Avg_QAU	SG	ACG	TCG	HHI
Ghost	8.6	43,232	9,396	126	37	56	393	103	23	4.1	9.1	24.0	6	-82	0	987
Gentics Mesh	7.1	552	108	116	5	11	29	13	9	1.6	2.4	5.5	2	-22	0	3,739
ApostropheCMS	9.0	4,051	546	113	14	22	95	47	12	1.9	3.1	9.0	5	-46	4	3,644
Directus	1.8	21,623	2,721	211	148	161	242	64	45	4.0	11.1	54.8	35	-85	3	4,270
Keystone	3.7	7,996	1,036	116	43	59	201	53	21	2.9	7.5	24.5	25	29	0	1,064
Ponzu	5.2	5,566	415	30	2	5	26	10	2	1.0	1.0	1.8	2	-22	0	8,258
dotCMS	9.7	727	442	627	6	20	69	49	15	2.9	7.8	15.3	8	77	19	776
Jekyll Admin	5.6	2,715	376	68	4	6	31	16	2	1.1	1.4	2.3	3	100	3	3,910
Pimcore	10.7	2,863	1,297	650	61	134	382	132	72	4.1	11.5	51.0	13	-24	12	1,233
Craft CMS	10.7	3,001	612	421	15	41	215	65	27	2.1	5.3	17.3	5	-37	2	3,365
Tina	2.4	8,799	465	79	20	31	82	50	15	2.3	4.2	13.0	18	-96	0	2,010
Statamic	4.1	2,728	395	464	49	77	160	56	30	2.6	6.7	33.0	44	-8	25	3,843
Daptin	4.5	1,699	108	17	4	6	11	3	4	1.2	1.7	3.0	8	-50	0	7,611
Webiny	3.9	6,553	531	252	14	20	60	20	9	2.1	4.2	9.3	17	255	0	3,774
Superdesk	8.5	654	212	59	1	5	51	34	3	1.1	1.2	2.0	4	-80	0	947
Cockpit	8.2	5,360	537	294	7	9	65	16	4	1.1	1.3	3.3	0	-67	0	5,503
Strapi	6.2	53,828	6,547	379	76	100	755	194	27	4.0	7.8	31.3	30	-99	0	1,398
Publii	3.5	5,429	353	148	0	4	16	9	4	1.2	1.6	3.0	38	-75	0	6,596

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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