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Ghost vs nextra
Ghost has 55,658 GitHub stars, 12,130 forks, 182 open issues and last shipped yesterday. nextra has 13,947 stars, 1,411 forks, 346 open issues and last shipped 3 months ago. Ghost leads on adoption by 299% (55,658 vs 13,947 stars). Ghost is written in TypeScript under MIT; nextra is written in TypeScript under MIT. Ghost has attracted 22% as many forks as stars, nextra 10%. Ghost was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| Ghost | nextra | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 56K | ★ 14K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | TypeScript | TypeScript |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-07-31 |
| Forks | ⑂ 12K | ⑂ 1.4K |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Ghost if
- You weight community size — 56K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick nextra if
- You want the nextra feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You evaluated both and nextra fits your workflow better
About Ghost
Ghost.org • Forum • Docs • Contributing • Twitter [!NOTE] Love open source? We're hiring! Ghost is looking staff engineers to join the team and work with us full time The easiest way to get a production instance deployed is with our official Ghost(Pro) managed service. It takes about 2 minutes to launch a new site with worldwide CDN, backups, security and maintenance all done for you. For most people this ends up being the best value option because of how much time it saves — and 100% of revenue goes to the Ghost Foundation; funding the maintenance and further development of the project itself. So you’ll be…
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About nextra
Nextra Simple, powerful and flexible site generation framework with everything you love from Next.js. Documentation Development Installation The Nextra repository uses PNPM Workspaces and Turborepo. 1. Run corepack enable to enable Corepack. If the command above fails, run npm install g corepack@latest to install the latest version of Corepack. 2. Run pnpm install to install the project's dependencies. Build nextra Watch mode: pnpm filter nextra dev Build nextra theme docs Development You can also debug them together with a website locally. For instance, to start examples/docs locally, run Any change to…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Ghost or nextra more popular?
Ghost has 55,658 GitHub stars and nextra has 13,947. Ghost has the larger community by that measure.
Are Ghost and nextra free?
Both are open source. Ghost is licensed under MIT and nextra under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Ghost and nextra?
Ghost is written in TypeScript and nextra in TypeScript. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Ghost or nextra?
Choose Ghost if you want the larger community (55,658 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose nextra if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.