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Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) Tools

Open source content management systems (cms) tools

projects 47 combined stars ★ 454K refresh nightly
Content Management Systems (CMS) is one of the most active slices of the open source world — the 8 projects below are ranked by GitHub stars, which makes this page roughly a community-voted shortlist rather than a vendor-curated catalogue. Every card shows the license and the last-commit date, so you can filter out the two failure modes of free software in one glance: restrictive licensing that blocks your use case, and abandonment that leaves you maintaining a fork. When two projects look comparable, prefer the one with more recent activity and the more permissive license (MIT/Apache-2.0 over AGPL) unless copyleft specifically serves your goals. Hover into any project for its full README — the documentation quality is usually the honest tell of engineering quality.

All Content Management Systems (CMS) tools

hugo ★ 90K

The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

rank001 licenseApache-2.0 written inGo typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
Strapi ★ 73K

Headless CMS with REST and GraphQL APIs out of the box

rank002 licenseNOASSERTION written inTypeScript typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
Payload ★ 45K

Headless CMS for developers, built with Node.js

rank003 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
halo ★ 40K

Halo 是一款强大易用的开源建站工具,从个人博客、知识库,到企业官网、在线商城,Halo 都能助您轻松实现,一站式满足您的多样化建站需求。

rank004 licenseGPL-3.0 written inJava typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
filament ★ 32K

A powerful open-source UI framework for Laravel • Build and ship apps & admin panels fast with Livewire

rank005 licenseMIT written inPHP typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
wagtail ★ 21K

A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience

rank006 licenseBSD-3-Clause written inPython typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
decap-cms ★ 19K

A Git-based CMS for Static Site Generators

rank007 licenseMIT written inJavaScript typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
TinaCMS ★ 14K

Visual editing for your Git-based content

rank008 licenseApache-2.0 written inTypeScript typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
frappe ★ 11K

Low code web framework for real world applications, in Python and Javascript

rank009 licenseMIT written inPython typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
Instatic ★ 8.7K

The open-source alternative to Webflow, Framer and WordPress. Agentic self-hosted visual CMS outputting clean static pages. Users, roles, plugins, content, data

rank010 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
OrchardCore ★ 8.2K

Orchard Core is an open-source modular and multi-tenant application framework built with ASP.NET Core, and a content management system (CMS) built on top of tha

rank011 licenseBSD-3-Clause written inC# typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
Publii ★ 7.3K

The most intuitive Static Site CMS designed for SEO-optimized and privacy-focused websites.

rank012 licenseGPL-3.0 written inHTML typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
sanity ★ 6.3K

Sanity Studio – Rapidly configure content workspaces powered by structured content

rank013 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
luban-h5 ★ 6.2K

[WIP]en: web design tool || mobile page builder/editor || mini webflow for mobile page. zh: 类似易企秀的H5制作、建站工具、可视化搭建系统.

rank014 licenseGPL-3.0 written inJavaScript typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
ponzu ★ 5.8K

Headless CMS with automatic JSON API. Featuring auto-HTTPS from Let's Encrypt, HTTP/2 Server Push, and flexible server framework written in Go.

rank015 licenseBSD-3-Clause written inGo typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
qor ★ 5.3K

QOR is a set of libraries written in Go that abstracts common features needed for business applications, CMSs, and E-commerce systems.

rank016 licenseMIT written inGo typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
Umbraco-CMS ★ 5.3K

Umbraco is a free and open source .NET content management system helping you deliver delightful digital experiences.

rank017 licenseMIT written inC# typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
joomla-cms ★ 5.1K

Home of the Joomla! Content Management System

rank018 licenseGPL-2.0 written inPHP typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
mediacms ★ 5.1K

MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django and React, featuring a REST API.

rank019 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inJavaScript typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
Statamic ★ 4.9K

Craft flexible, powerful websites with ease

rank020 licenseNOASSERTION written inPHP typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
Drupal ★ 4.3K

Build powerful websites with the open-source CMS

rank021 license written inPHP typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
Twill CMS ★ 4.0K

Craft flexible, beautiful digital experiences with ease

rank022 licenseApache-2.0 written inPHP typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
Craft CMS ★ 3.6K

Flexible CMS for custom digital experiences

rank023 licenseNOASSERTION written inPHP typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
terminusdb ★ 3.4K

TerminusDB is a distributed, collaborative database designed for building, sharing, versioning, and reasoning on structured data.

rank024 licenseApache-2.0 written inProlog typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
sveltia-cms ★ 2.8K

Leading Git-based headless CMS. Successor to Netlify/Decap CMS. Modern UX, first-class i18n support, mobile support + numerous improvements. Framework-agnostic,

rank025 licenseMIT written inJavaScript typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
vscode-front-matter ★ 2.5K

Front Matter is a CMS running straight in Visual Studio Code. Can be used with static site generators like Hugo, Jekyll, Hexo, NextJs, Gatsby, and many more...

rank026 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
squidex ★ 2.5K

Headless CMS and Content Managment Hub

rank027 licenseMIT written inC# typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
daptin ★ 1.9K

Self-hosted application server for schema-driven APIs, identity, files, automation, integrations, realtime, metering, and protocols.

rank028 licenseLGPL-3.0 written inGo typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
sonicjs ★ 1.7K

SonicJS - The edge-native headless CMS for Cloudflare Workers. Sub-100ms response times, zero cold starts, TypeScript-first. Built on D1, R2, and Hono.

rank029 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
revolution ★ 1.4K

MODX Revolution - Content Management Framework

rank030 licenseGPL-2.0 written inPHP typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
next-wp ★ 1.3K

Headless WordPress built with the Next.js App Router and React Server Components

rank031 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
typo3 ★ 1.2K

The TYPO3 Core - Enterprise Content Management System. Synchronized mirror of https://review.typo3.org/q/project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS

rank032 licenseGPL-2.0 written inPHP typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
agency-os ★ 973

The open source operating system for digital agencies. Built with Directus and Nuxt.

rank033 licenseMIT written inVue typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
mix.core ★ 888

🚀 A future-proof enterprise web CMS supporting both headless and decoupled approaches. Build any type of app with customizable APIs on ASP.NET Core/.NET Core.

rank034 licenseMIT written inC# typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
textpattern ★ 880

A flexible, elegant, fast and easy-to-use content management system written in PHP.

rank035 licenseGPL-2.0 written inPHP typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
studiocms ★ 833

Dedicated SSR (Server-side-rendered) Astro native Headless CMS, built from the ground up for the Astro community and by Astro community members

rank036 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
intlayer ★ 831

Per-component Internationalisation solution for JS application. Type-Safe. Translate with AI. Edit Visually.

rank037 licenseApache-2.0 written inTypeScript typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
velite ★ 813

Turns Markdown / MDX, YAML, JSON, or others into app's data layer with Zod schema.

rank038 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
wondercms ★ 740

Fast and small flat file CMS (5 files). Built with PHP, JSON database.

rank039 licenseMIT written inPHP typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
next-drupal ★ 711

Next.js for Drupal has everything you need to build a next-generation front-end for your Drupal site: SSG, SSR, and ISR, Multi-site, Authentication, Webforms, S

rank040 licenseMIT written inTypeScript typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
strapi-tool-dockerize ★ 623

Easy add support for docker to your strapi project

rank041 licenseMIT written inJavaScript typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
mesh ★ 593

Gentics Mesh - The open source headless CMS for developers

rank042 licenseApache-2.0 written inJava typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
pagible ★ 587

Easy, flexible and powerful cloud-native Laravel CMS package powered by AI with JSON:API, GraphQL API, templates, and themes

rank043 licenseMIT written inPHP typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
vaahcms ★ 573

VaahCMS is a laravel based open-source web application development platform shipped with a headless content management system (CMS).

rank044 licenseMIT written inPHP typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
fastschema ★ 573

All-in-One Backend as a Service with Headless CMS Power

rank045 licenseMIT written inGo typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
FluentCMS ★ 566

ASP.NET Core Blazor Content Management System (CMS)

rank046 licenseMIT written inC# typeContent Management Systems (CMS)
Marble CMS ★ 385

Simple content management for modern sites

rank047 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inTypeScript typeContent Management Systems (CMS)

Frequently asked questions

How many open source Content Management Systems (CMS) tools are there?

This registry tracks 47 open source Content Management Systems (CMS) projects, with 453,698 combined GitHub stars. The list is ranked by stars and refreshed nightly.

What is the most popular open source Content Management Systems (CMS) project?

hugo leads this category with 89,854 GitHub stars, followed by Strapi.

Are these Content Management Systems (CMS) tools free?

Yes — every project listed here is open source. Some also offer paid hosted versions alongside the free self-hosted option; the licence for each project is shown on its card.