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	72,844	9,820	159	209	1,243	6	132	15	592
Ghost	13.3	54,741	11,880	89	134	900	9	4	11	504
Statamic	8.7	4,866	637	42	96	375	9	8	13	2,209
Directus	13.7	37,302	4,902	76	95	564	17	-5	16	2,133
Pimcore	14.8	3,825	1,514	25	66	649	6	-10	4	934
Netlify CMS	11.6	19,291	3,122	33	40	609	4	150	6	885
Tina	7.1	13,721	738	27	36	168	8	50	19	1,041
Craft CMS	9.5	3,601	704	13	27	298	4	-29	5	3,063
ApostropheCMS	13.5	4,598	643	10	17	141	3	70	8	1,401
Keystone	8.4	9,939	1,260	7	14	288	3	-26	3	944
Squidex	10.0	2,511	519	6	9	81	3	0	8	9,123
Webiny	8.6	8,026	673	3	8	85	5	14	4	3,319
Publii	8.2	7,282	466	0	3	23	6	-40	0	5,938

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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