Ranked by measurement

Best headless cms

9 tested · top 9 shown

Ordered by a seven-frame production-readiness benchmark measured from each product's public surface — not popularity, pricing or feature count. Nobody pays to appear here and the order is never edited. How it is measured →
How this field scores
low 68median 83best 98
  1. 1
    Build Blazing-Fast Websites.
    NextBlock is an open-source Next.js CMS targeting 100% Lighthouse scores with a visual block editor.
    Perf 84
    Acce 100
    Sec 100
    Priv 100
    Rel 100
    Std 100
    Disc 100
    nextblock.dev · measured 2026-08-19
  2. 2
    Prismic
    Prismic is a headless CMS with a visual page builder for content teams and developers.
    Perf 80
    Sec 90
    Priv 70
    Rel 100
    Std 100
    Disc 100
    1 not assessed
    prismic.io · measured 2026-08-18
  3. 3
    Storyblok
    Storyblok is a headless CMS for managing and delivering dynamic content.
    Perf 62
    Acce 100
    Sec 80
    Priv 100
    Rel 100
    Std 89
    Disc 75
    storyblok.com · measured 2026-08-10
  4. 4
    Directus
    Directus is an open-source data platform and headless CMS with a no-code studio interface.
    Perf 80
    Sec 55
    Priv 100
    Rel 100
    Std 75
    Disc 85
    1 not assessed
    directus.io · measured 2026-08-14
  5. 5
    Sanity.io
    Sanity.io is a headless CMS platform for structured content management.
    Perf 54
    Acce 100
    Sec 80
    Priv 70
    Rel 100
    Std 89
    Disc 85
    sanity.io · measured 2026-08-13
  6. 6
    strapi
    Strapi is an open-source, TypeScript-based headless CMS for building content APIs.
    Perf 52
    Acce 87
    Sec 45
    Priv 100
    Rel 100
    Std 87
    Disc 100
    strapi.io · measured 2026-08-17
  7. 7
    Payload
    Payload is an open-source, code-first headless CMS and app framework built on Next.js.
    Perf 44
    Acce 95
    Sec 80
    Priv 75
    Rel 100
    Std 92
    Disc 70
    payloadcms.com · measured 2026-08-17
  8. 8
    Prelo
    Self-hosted, MIT-licensed open-source CMS for handing websites over to clients.
    Perf 91
    Acce 95
    Sec 45
    Priv 25
    Rel 100
    Std 89
    Disc 35
    prelo.dev · measured 2026-08-25
  9. 9
    Webiny
    Webiny is an open-source, self-hostable CMS designed to be extended with AI and code.
    Perf 56
    Acce 91
    Sec 90
    Priv 0
    Rel 75
    Std 79
    Disc 85
    webiny.com · measured 2026-08-13
What this does not say
This ranks how production-ready each product's public surface is — not how well it does its job. For headless cms, that means it does not measure the quality of the work itself. Products whose sites block automated readers are left out rather than ranked last — we did not measure them, and bottom placement would claim something we never observed. Scores are floors: anything set at a CDN, a proxy or behind a login is invisible from the public surface.

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