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	10.9	73,044	9,854	166	214	1,251	5	141	15	591
Ghost	13.3	55,081	11,929	91	137	904	9	5	11	500
Statamic	8.8	4,879	641	45	99	378	8	11	14	2,201
Directus	13.7	37,698	4,915	78	98	567	17	13	16	2,125
Pimcore	14.8	3,838	1,517	25	61	652	6	-16	4	931
Netlify CMS	11.6	19,324	3,125	34	41	611	4	141	6	883
Tina	7.1	13,762	743	28	38	169	8	65	20	1,034
Craft CMS	9.6	3,606	706	13	27	298	4	-27	5	3,064
ApostropheCMS	13.6	4,609	647	11	18	142	3	80	8	1,401
Keystone	8.4	9,964	1,260	8	16	289	3	0	3	944
Squidex	10.0	2,509	521	5	9	81	3	13	7	9,123
Webiny	8.6	8,032	673	3	8	85	3	33	4	3,323

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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