Top 45 Headless CMS Tools — May 2026

Choosing among headless CMS tools is not just a feature comparison; teams also need to know whether a project looks actively maintained and whether it has enough adoption signal to reduce risk. For May 2026, this section uses the supplied ToolVitals dataset for Headless CMS Tools, including health score, shipping score, GitHub stars, ToolVitals score, and status for each ranked project.

The ranking is ordered by ToolVitals score first, with GitHub stars used as the secondary popularity signal when scores are tied. That puts the highest-scoring tools at the top while still giving some weight to visible GitHub adoption among projects with the same ToolVitals score.

Rankings

Rank	Tool	Health	Shipping	GitHub Stars	Score	Status
1	EmDash CMS	95	100	10296	94	🟢 Excellent
2	Sanity	97	100	6100	94	🟢 Excellent
3	Statamic	92	100	4800	94	🟢 Excellent
4	Craft CMS	97	100	3558	94	🟢 Excellent
5	Ycode	94	100	146	94	🟢 Excellent
6	dotCMS	88	100	943	93	🟢 Excellent
7	Grav	92	88	15476	90	🟢 Excellent
8	Pages CMS	89	88	3644	89	🟢 Excellent
9	Changelog	78	100	2767	88	🟢 Excellent
10	Kirby	94	80	1500	88	🟢 Excellent
11	Sulu	92	78	1330	86	🟢 Excellent
12	DNN Platform	89	88	1125	86	🟢 Excellent
13	Outstatic	88	80	3125	84	🟢 Excellent
14	AWCMS	88	80	10	84	🟢 Excellent
15	Microweber	85	72	3407	79	🟢 Good
16	Conrete CMS	82	72	828	78	🟢 Good
17	Lektor	74	72	3938	73	🟢 Good
18	Frappe Wiki	80	62	399	72	🟢 Good
19	lara-zeus Sky	86	55	210	72	🟢 Good
20	content	83	55	3634	70	🟢 Good
21	Concrete	80	55	828	69	🟢 Good
22	Vvveb	77	55	1052	67	🟢 Good
23	Backdrop CMS	77	55	1037	67	🟢 Good
24	Keystone	78	47	9874	64	🟢 Good
25	camaleon-cms	85	30	1235	60	🟢 Good
26	openblog	76	30	2	55	🟡 Fair
27	Archival	68	30	8	51	🟡 Fair
28	DokuWiki	79	0	4613	43	🟡 Fair
29	Astropress	52	30	0	42	🟡 Fair
30	Orchard Core	73	0	8073	40	🟡 Fair
31	ProcessWire	73	0	1121	40	🟡 Fair
32	Content Flow	45	30	1	38	🔴 Needs Attention
33	LinkBCMS	64	0	2	35	🔴 Needs Attention
34	LeadCMS	61	0	33	34	🔴 Needs Attention
35	VaahCMS	55	0	577	30	🔴 Needs Attention
36	Microfeed	52	0	3976	29	🔴 Needs Attention
37	cms	52	0	3907	29	🔴 Needs Attention
38	DoraCMS	52	0	3530	29	🔴 Needs Attention
39	Blogifier	52	0	1304	29	🔴 Needs Attention
40	CairnCMS	41	0	1	23	🔴 Needs Attention
41	OpenMark Blog	42	0	1	23	🔴 Needs Attention
42	Cockpit CMS	36	0	5399	20	🔴 Needs Attention
43	Rpub	32	0	62	18	🔴 Needs Attention
44	Contentive	29	0	1	16	🔴 Needs Attention
45	bhd-cms	23	0	1	13	🔴 Needs Attention

Top 3 Highlights

EmDash CMS ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 94, a health score of 95, and a shipping score of 100. It ties several other tools on ToolVitals score, but its 10,296 GitHub stars give it the strongest popularity signal among the 94-point group.

Sanity ranks second with the same 94 ToolVitals score and a 100 shipping score, plus the highest health score in the top tier at 97. Its 6,100 GitHub stars place it behind EmDash CMS on the tie-breaker but still show a substantial adoption signal.

Statamic ranks third with a 94 ToolVitals score, a 92 health score, and a 100 shipping score. Its 4,800 GitHub stars put it ahead of Craft CMS and Ycode within the tied 94-point group.

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