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24 alternatives to Grav, an Open Source Flat-File CMS

Grav is a Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS, now with a first-party REST API and MCP server for headless and AI use.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Grav, an Open Source Flat-File CMS launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Grav 1.0▲364

    Modern open source flat-file CMS to build faster websites

    2015 · getgrav.org · its alternatives →

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    An open source flat file CMS, updated

    2016 · getgrav.org · its alternatives →

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    Grav▲7

    A Fast and Modern Flat-File CMS

    2015 · getgrav.org · its alternatives →

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    Zero-ops vector database for GenAI developers

    2024 · zilliz.com · its alternatives →

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    A modern, frontend only, open source, CSV importer

    2025 · hellocsv.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Pico▲125

    A stupidly simple and blazing fast, flat file CMS

    2014 · picocms.org · its alternatives →

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    Headless CMS that combines Git & Serverless platforms

    2024 · contentrain.io · its alternatives →

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    Toolkit for building serverless applications

    2019 · serverless.com · its alternatives →

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    A Python stream processing engine modeled after Yahoo! Pipes - nerevu/riko

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Dorik CMS▲242

    Simple and flexible white-label website building platform

    2022 · dorik.com · its alternatives →

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    prooV 2.0▲153

    Run PoCs with global enterprises, quickly and easily

    2017 · proov.io · its alternatives →

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    🔥 🔥 🔥Open Source & AI driven Data Onboarding Platform:Free flatfile.com alternative - yobulkdev/yobulkdev

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Your new Git-based headless CMS experience

    2022 · contentrain.io · its alternatives →

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    https://github.com/turboblack/HamsterCMS http://web1.0hosting.net/ - free hosting based on this CMS

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Over the past few months, I've been working on building Omni - a workplace search and chat platform that connects to apps like Google Drive/Gmail, Slack, Confluence, etc. Essentially an open-source alternative to Glean, fully self-hosted. I noticed that some orgs find Glean to be expensive and not very extensible. I wanted to build something that small to mid-size teams could run themselves, so I decided to build it all on Postgres (ParadeDB to be precise) and pgvector. No Elasticsearch, or dedicated vector databases. I figured Postgres is more than capable of handling the level…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Modern, Edge-Ready Headless CMS

    Jul 2026 · morphic-cms.com · its alternatives →

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    Bring the power of Grok into your terminal

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A simple golang application to automate the deployment of software releases. - skx/deployr

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A modular and lightweight open source CMS

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    A simple CMS :tomato:. Contribute to ketchuphq/ketchup development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An ultra-fast, single-binary MCP server written in Rust as a lightweight alternative to Node.js/Python. - StamManif/mcp-stama

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! We’re Yann, Edouard, and Bastien from Koyeb (https://www.koyeb.com/). We’re building a platform to let you deploy full-stack apps on high-performance hardware around the world, with zero configuration. We provide a “global serverless feeling”, without the hassle of re-writing all your apps or managing k8s complexity [1]. We built Scaleway, a cloud service provider where we designed ARM servers and provided them as cloud servers. During our time there, we saw customers struggle with the same issues while trying to deploy full-stack applications and APIs resiliently. As…

    2023 · koyeb.com · its alternatives →

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