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Headless CMS

A Headless CMS enables a website author to manage content via a browser based UI. Many offer an API for loading data into your site while others run directly in your code base.

ApostropheCMS

Powerful open source CMS.

Hosting Self or Cloud
Source Available Yes
Cost Free & Paid
Supports SSGs All
Data Access REST API
https://apostrophecms.com

Builder.io

Builder.io is the only headless CMS that gives developers, marketers, and product managers the freedom they need to ship fast, flexible, multi-channel experiences without overwhelming your backlog.

Hosting Cloud
Source Available No
Cost Free & Paid
Supports SSGs All
Data Access API & SDK
https://www.builder.io

ButterCMS

A seamless CMS with a blazing fast API and marketing dashboard. Stop wasting dev time and free your marketers from your legacy CMS.

Hosting Cloud
Source Available No
Cost Free & Paid
Supports SSGs All
Data Access REST API & SDKs
https://buttercms.com

CloudCannon

The visual CMS that gives content teams full autonomy on your developer-approved tech stack.

Hosting Cloud
Source Available No
Cost Paid
Supports SSGs All
Data Access Git Based
https://cloudcannon.com

Contentful

Where content drives business momentum.

Hosting Cloud
Source Available No
Cost Free & Paid
Supports SSGs All
Data Access REST API or GraphQL
https://www.contentful.com

DatoCMS

Simply put, the most complete, user-friendly and performant Headless CMS.

Hosting Cloud
Source Available No
Cost Free & Paid
Supports SSGs All
Data Access REST API or GraphQL
https://www.datocms.com

Decap CMS

Open source content management for your Git workflow.

Hosting Self
Source Available Yes
Cost Free
Supports SSGs All
Data Access Git Based
https://decapcms.org

Directus

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content.

Hosting Self or Cloud
Source Available Yes
Cost Free & Paid
Supports SSGs All
Data Access REST API or GraphQL
https://directus.io

Ghost

Turn your audience into a business.

Hosting Self or Cloud
Source Available Yes
Cost Free & Paid
Supports SSGs All
Data Access REST API
https://ghost.org/

Hygraph

The federated content management platform for the era of composable architectures. Instant GraphQL content APIs to distribute content from anywhere to everywhere.

Hosting Cloud
Source Available No
Cost Free & Paid
Supports SSGs All
Data Access GraphQL
https://hygraph.com

Prismic

Headless page builder. Build a website that keeps getting better.

Hosting Cloud
Source Available No
Cost Free & Paid
Supports SSGs All
Data Access REST API or GraphQL
https://prismic.io

Sanity

Sanity delivers content anywhere (just like a headless CMS). Beyond that, Sanity gives you total composability. A fully decoupled, real-time content back end. Entirely customizable content workspaces.

Hosting Cloud
Source Available No
Cost Free & Paid
Supports SSGs All
Data Access GraphQL & GROQ
https://www.sanity.io

Statamic

Statamic is a modern, clean, and highly adaptable CMS that can run full-stack, headless, on flat files or databases, & as an SSG.

Hosting Self
Source Available Yes
Cost Free & Paid
Supports SSGs All & Built In
Data Access REST API or GraphQL
https://statamic.com

Storyblok

Build better content experiences faster, without limits. With Storyblok, the modern CMS beloved by 170,000 + developers & marketers.

Hosting Cloud
Source Available No
Cost Free & Paid
Supports SSGs All
Data Access REST API, GraphQL & SDKs
https://www.storyblok.com

Strapi

Manage Any Content. Anywhere. The leading open-source headless CMS. 100% JavaScript / TypeScript and fully customizable.

Hosting Self or Cloud
Source Available Yes
Cost Free & Paid
Supports SSGs All
Data Access REST API or GraphQL
https://strapi.io

TinaCMS

Tina is a fully open-source headless CMS that supports Git.

Hosting Self or Cloud
Source Available Yes
Cost Free & Paid
Supports SSGs All
Data Access GraphQL
https://tina.io

Wagtail

Wagtail is the leading open-source Python CMS.

Hosting Self
Source Available Yes
Cost Free
Supports SSGs All
Data Access REST API or GraphQL
https://wagtail.org/

WordPress

Create a place for your business, your interests, or anything else—with the open source platform that powers the web.

Hosting Self or Cloud
Source Available Yes
Cost Free & Paid
Supports SSGs All
Data Access REST API or GraphQL (via Plugin)
https://wordpress.org

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