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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	10.3	71,085	9,389	76	115	1,130	10	55	7	617
Ghost	12.7	51,685	11,300	57	100	784	7	-2	8	534
Statamic	8.2	4,686	601	35	76	342	11	-20	11	2,721
Directus	13.1	34,057	4,537	41	74	509	18	-36	9	2,269
Pimcore	14.2	3,703	1,505	21	67	633	7	-36	3	959
Craft CMS	9.0	3,527	683	14	31	287	7	-9	5	2,998
Tina	6.5	13,084	680	18	27	152	7	17	13	1,094
Netlify CMS	11.0	18,861	3,106	19	26	588	4	-24	3	928
Keystone	7.8	9,831	1,246	6	12	282	5	-46	2	942
ApostropheCMS	13.0	4,516	623	4	11	132	3	-27	3	1,412
Webiny	8.1	7,926	658	3	8	84	6	-20	4	3,345
Squidex	9.4	2,477	515	4	6	77	8	-25	6	9,159
Publii	7.6	7,055	457	1	3	23	9	-25	5	5,887

Open-Source Headless CMS Index

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