# Headless CMSs

Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/categories/headless-cms/
Facet: Categories — every value: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/categories/

12 projects are headless cmss, listed alphabetically. Written in 5 languages, most of them open source.

A headless CMS manages content in an admin interface and hands it to other software over a REST or GraphQL API, without rendering public pages itself. The front end is built separately, often with a [web framework](/categories/framework/) or a [static site generator](/categories/ssg/). A record carries this category when its documentation names API delivery as the main way content leaves the system. Some also render pages and carry [CMS](/categories/cms/) too. Products offered only as SaaS sit beside the register as hosted services. Directus and Payload are examples.

## Software (12)

- [Alinea](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/alinea/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/alinea.md
- [Atomic Server](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/atomic-server/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/atomic-server.md
- [baserCMS](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/basercms/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/basercms.md
- [Contember](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/contember/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/contember.md
- [CoreMedia Content Cloud](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/coremedia/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/coremedia.md
- [dotCMS](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/dotcms/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/dotcms.md
- [Easy CMS](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/easy-cms/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/easy-cms.md
- [microfeed](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/microfeed/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/microfeed.md
- [Payload](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/payload/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/payload.md
- [PocketBase](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/pocketbase/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/pocketbase.md
- [Statamic](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/statamic/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/statamic.md
- [Sveltia CMS](https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/sveltia-cms/) — https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/sveltia-cms.md

## Questions

### What is the best Headless CMS?

We can't tell from here. What suits an editor-heavy marketing site can be wrong for a static documentation site. The list is alphabetical and nobody paid for a place on it.

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