Strapi is an open-source headless CMS founded in Paris, France in 2015, leading its category with 65,000+ GitHub stars. Its visual content type builder auto-generates REST/GraphQL APIs with self-hosting and Strapi Cloud options.
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Storyblok is a visual headless CMS founded in Linz, Austria in 2017, known for component-based content and in-page live editing, with a free Starter and Growth at $90.75/month billed annually.
Sanity is a Norway-based structured content platform founded in 2015 with over $200M in funding. Its single Content Lake supports 3+ distribution channels, making it strong for content platform modernization.
Drupal is an open-source PHP CMS created by Dries Buytaert in 2000, the third most popular open-source CMS worldwide, with 40k+ modules on Drupal.org, native multilingual and headless support, suited to complex enterprise websites.
Contentful is a headless CMS platform founded in Berlin in 2013, valued at over $3 billion after its 2022 Series F round and serving brands such as Spotify and Audi. It delivers structured content to any channel including Web, App and IoT via REST/GraphQL APIs.
Gatsby is an open-source React-based static site generator that integrates various data sources through a GraphQL data layer to generate optimized, high-performance static sites, and offers Gatsby Cloud hosting.
Zesty.io is a headless CMS and digital experience platform (DXP) founded in the US in 2014, offering REST and GraphQL dual-API content delivery, visual editing, and AWS-based SaaS hosting for multi-channel content operations.
SilverStripe CMS is a New Zealand-maintained open-source PHP CMS publicly available since 2007. Its 2-layer architecture and $0 core licensing model fit teams that value code control and long-term maintainability.
Payload CMS is an open-source headless CMS and application framework built on Next.js and TypeScript, code-first and self-hostable, used in production by Microsoft, ASICS, and Blue Origin, and part of Figma since 2026.
Orchard CMS is an open-source .NET content management system from the ASP.NET ecosystem whose modern version, Orchard Core, is built on ASP.NET Core under the BSD-3-Clause license, with 8K+ GitHub stars and 2.4M+ NuGet downloads, ideal for .NET teams building content sites and applications.
dotCMS is an open-source enterprise CMS founded in Miami, US in 2003, built on the Java stack with dual-mode traditional and headless architecture, REST/GraphQL dual APIs and multi-site management, listed as a representative vendor by Gartner.
Directus is an open-source headless CMS and backend-as-a-service platform founded in Los Angeles, US in 2014 that automatically wraps any SQL database into REST/GraphQL APIs, with 25k+ GitHub stars, ideal for data-driven projects.
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2 results shownAPI Integration Guide: REST vs GraphQL Comparison and Selection
REST and GraphQL are the two mainstream API paradigms. This article compares their design philosophies, data fetching, and performance.
GraphQL Backend API Development Guide: Schema, Resolvers and Queries
A backend development guide based on the official GraphQL documentation covering the schema type system, resolvers, queries/mutations, and tooling.