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	10.4	71,344	9,496	83	127	1,141	10	74	8	615
Ghost	12.8	51,865	11,332	54	93	786	7	-9	7	528
Statamic	8.3	4,722	612	41	91	354	11	-10	13	2,256
Directus	13.2	34,261	4,575	46	79	517	18	-31	10	2,247
Pimcore	14.3	3,720	1,507	20	66	633	7	-31	3	959
Netlify CMS	11.1	18,942	3,107	20	27	589	4	-13	4	924
Craft CMS	9.1	3,535	681	12	26	287	6	-28	4	2,999
Tina	6.6	13,151	683	16	25	152	7	0	12	1,090
ApostropheCMS	13.0	4,524	625	4	11	132	3	-27	3	1,408
Keystone	7.9	9,848	1,249	5	10	282	5	-52	2	943
Webiny	8.1	7,936	657	3	8	84	6	-20	4	3,329
Squidex	9.5	2,478	519	4	7	77	6	-13	6	9,154
Publii	7.7	7,085	459	1	3	23	8	-25	5	5,887

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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