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Open source alternatives to Contentful

Contentful is a hosted headless CMS that stores structured content behind an API.

Published by Contentful. The projects below are sorted by GitHub stars. Star counts and last commit dates are read from the public GitHub API. The line under each name is generated from the category, the licence, and whether the project can be self-hosted. Fetched . 3 of 4 have an OSI-approved SPDX licence, a commit in the last 12 months, and a repository GitHub has not archived.

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  1. 1Strapi

    strapi/strapi

    Sites, content, and commerce. Licence: MIT. Self-hosted: yes.

    Licence
    MITOpen core
    GitHub stars
    73,312
    Last commit

    Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.

    Repository on GitHubProject site

  2. 2Ghost

    TryGhost/Ghost

    Sites, content, and commerce. Licence: MIT. Self-hosted: yes.

    Licence
    MIT
    GitHub stars
    55,539
    Last commit

    Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.

    Repository on GitHubProject site

  3. 3Payload

    payloadcms/payload

    Sites, content, and commerce. Licence: MIT. Self-hosted: yes.

    Licence
    MIT
    GitHub stars
    45,253
    Last commit

    Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.

    Repository on GitHubProject site

  4. 4Directus

    directus/directus

    Sites, content, and commerce. Licence: Source-available (MSCL-1.0-GPL). Self-hosted: yes.

    Licence
    Source-available (MSCL-1.0-GPL)
    GitHub stars
    38,502
    Last commit

    Does not count toward the open source minimum: Source-available (MSCL-1.0-GPL).

    Repository on GitHubProject site

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