# Contember

Open-source platform for building data-driven web applications, with a GraphQL API, PostgreSQL and a React administration interface.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/contember/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Listed since: 2026-10-23

## Record

### Links

- home: https://www.contember.com
- repository: https://github.com/contember/contember
- docs: https://docs.contember.com
- x: https://twitter.com/contember
- forum: https://github.com/orgs/contember/discussions

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Contember Limited
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2020
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: headless-cms, backend
- hosting: unknown
- language: javascript
- runtime: unknown
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: database
- databases: postgres
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: graphql
- templating: unknown
- i18n: yes, multi-language and translatable apps

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: npx @contember/create

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 2
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-07-14

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 192
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 522
- contributors: 28
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://www.contember.com/ (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/contember/contember (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://docs.contember.com/ (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/contember/contember/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/contember/contember (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/contember/contember/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://docs.contember.com/ (read 2026-10-23)
- contentStore: https://github.com/contember/contember/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- databases: https://github.com/contember/contember/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- headlessApi: https://github.com/contember/contember/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- adminUi: https://github.com/contember/contember/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://docs.contember.com/intro/installation (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://docs.contember.com/guides/self-hosted-contember (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://docs.contember.com/intro/installation (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://docs.contember.com/guides/self-hosted-contember (read 2026-10-23)
- i18n: https://docs.contember.com/ (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/contember/contember/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://registry.npmjs.org/@contember/interface/latest (read 2026-10-23)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/contember/contember/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/contember/contember/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://registry.npmjs.org/@contember%2finterface (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/contember/contember (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/contember/contember/contributors (read 2026-10-23)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/@contember/interface (read 2026-10-23)

## Notes

Contember is an open-source platform for building data-driven web applications. Developers describe the data model in TypeScript, and the engine provides a GraphQL API over a PostgreSQL database, with role-based access control and sign-in through OpenID Connect providers. The administration interface is built with Contember Interface, a React framework described in the docs. New projects start from the @contember/create scaffold, which installs Contember Interface, and the engine is published as a Docker image for self-hosting.

## Worth knowing

The company's homepage now leads with Contember Fabrika, a managed platform for building company apps, and lists the open-source framework and Contember Cloud among its products. Contember Cloud is the managed hosting option next to self-hosting. The GitHub API does not detect the license, while the LICENSE file names Apache License 2.0 for the content outside the third-party components.

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