Alternatives

Products that do what A truly open source modern headless CMS does

1. 1DF
   Directus – Free and Open-Source Headless CMS▲18

   2016 · getdirectus.com

2. 2SA
   Sanity – A Headless CMS Construction Kit in JavaScript▲90

   2017 · sanity.io

3. 3CO
   Contember – Open-source headless CMS development platform▲9

   2022 · contember.com

4. 4AO
   Alinea – open-source headless CMS▲8

   2022 · alinea.sh

5. 5GA
   GraphCMS – A GraphQL-based Headless CMS▲115

   2018 · graphcms.com

6. 6T1
   The 1-File Headless CMS▲9

   2024 · github.com

7. 7DH
   DatoCMS – Headless CMS for static websites▲55

   2017 · datocms.com

8. 8GM
   Gentics Mesh – An API-First headless CMS for Developers▲11

   2016 · getmesh.io

9. 9SA
   Scrivito, a serverless JavaScript CMS▲40

   2018 · scrivito.com

10. 10GM
    Gentics Mesh – Selfhosted Headless CMS▲5

    2018 · github.com

11. 11AN
    Axiom – No-code Browser Automation▲270

    2020 · axiom.ai

12. 12
    JustCMS▲255

    AI-powered, affordable, headless cms

    2025

13. 13TA
    TakeShape, a Headless GraphQL CMS and SSG▲60

    2018 · takeshape.io

14. 14OS
    Open Source Headless GraphQL CMS▲14

    2018 · github.com

15. 15OS
    Open-source app to turn headless Chrome into a normal browser▲64

    2019 · github.com

16. 16CA
    Coisas, an open-source client-side CMS for static site generators▲68

    2017 · github.com

17. 17CB
    Cloud browser – headless Chrome and image maps▲69

    2019 · cloudbrowser.website

18. 18FO
    Faceless – Open-source version of Secret▲91

    2014 · github.com

19. 19UA
    Urubu – A micro CMS for static websites▲80

    2016 · urubu.jandecaluwe.com

20. 20HA
    Hasp – A minimal CSS preprocessor using the M4 macro language▲72

    2015 · github.com

21. 21AD
    A Different (Code-First) Headless CMS for SPA’s Like Vue.js and React▲15

    2020 · contentblocks.io

22. 22SC
    Serverless Code Editor framework for any programming language▲57

    2017 · github.com

23. 23
    Fraym▲67

    A new open-source CMS

    2014

24. 24LO
    Lightweight, Open-Source CMS Powered by Cloudflare Pages/R2/D1 [video]▲6

    2024 · youtube.com

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