Strapi
Fully customizable JavaScript headless CMS for any digital experience
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Best Content Management Systems (CMS) Tools
Explore leading tools in the Content Management Systems (CMS) category, including open-source options and SaaS products. Compare features, use cases, and find the best fit for your workflow.
10+ open-source projects · 10+ SaaS products
Top open-source Content Management Systems (CMS)
These projects are active, self-hostable choices for knowledge management teams evaluating alternatives to SaaS tools.
Ghost
Modern publishing platform for blogs, memberships, and newsletters
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- 51,647
- License
- MIT
- Last commit
- 14 hours ago
JavaScriptActive
- Stars
- 40,038
- License
- MIT
- Last commit
- 11 hours ago
TypeScriptActive
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- 34,014
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- 12 hours ago
TypeScriptActive
- Stars
- 13,076
- License
- Apache-2.0
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- 1 day ago
TypeScriptActive
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- 11,145
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- 19 hours ago
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Fully customizable JavaScript headless CMS for any digital experience
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Self-hosted content management system with clean-slate content modeling, Twig templating, auto-generated GraphQL API, and built-in ecommerce for custom digital experiences.
Popular SaaS Platforms to Replace
Understand the commercial incumbents teams migrate from and how many open-source alternatives exist for each product.
Agility CMS
Headless content management system supporting composable, API-first architectures
Content Management Systems (CMS)
Alternatives tracked
18 alternatives
ButterCMS
Headless CMS and blog engine that integrates via API to let developers add content management to any app
Content Management Systems (CMS)
Alternatives tracked
18 alternatives
Contentful
API‑first headless CMS for structured content delivery
Content Management Systems (CMS)
Alternatives tracked
18 alternatives
Ghost
Publishing & membership CMS with built-in newsletters
Content Management Systems (CMS)
Alternatives tracked
17 alternatives
Hygraph
Next-generation GraphQL headless CMS for modern digital experiences
Content Management Systems (CMS)
Alternatives tracked
18 alternatives
Medium
Open publishing platform for stories and ideas
Content Management Systems (CMS)
Alternatives tracked
18 alternatives
Most compared product
10+ open-source alternatives
Agility CMS is a cloud-based headless Content Management System (CMS) that enables businesses to manage content and deliver it via APIs. As a MACH Alliance member, it promotes composable architectures and provides an intuitive interface for creating, organizing, and publishing content across channels.
Leading hosted platforms
Frequently replaced when teams want private deployments and lower TCO.
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