Open-Source Content Management Systems (CMS) Ranked #25

📈 Open-Source Content Management Systems Ranked #26–#50

Open-source content management systems are platforms whose source code is publicly available, allowing anyone to inspect, modify, and redistribute the software under open licenses.

They are typically used to build and manage websites with a high degree of flexibility, offering community-driven development, extensibility through themes and plugins, and the ability to self-host and customize functionality without vendor lock-in.

The following list shows the open-source content management systems ranked from 26th to 50th out of 112 tracked.

Rank	Name	Market share
26	CMS Made Simple An open-source, modular, enterprise-level CMS written in PHP. FreeOpen source	0.05%
27	Magnolia Münchenstein, Switzerland An enterprise content management system that's built for demanding multi-channel, multi-language and multi-site digital experience scenarios. FreeOpen source$3,500+/month	0.04%
28	Grav Evergreen, Colorado, United States A flat file CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony. FreeOpen source$30+	0.03%
29	Mastodon Berlin, Germany Mastodon is free, open-source software for running self-hosted, federated social networking services based on the ActivityPub protocol. FreeOpen source	0.03%
30	OpenCms Cologne, Germany An open source content management system based on Java and XML. FreeOpen source	0.03%
31	Bloomreach Experience Manager Mountain View, California, United States A Java-based digital experience platform available under open source and enterprise licenses. FreeOpen source$100,000+/year	0.02%
32	XOOPS An open-source CMS based on PHP and MySQL. FreeOpen source	0.02%
33	InstantCMS A modular open source CMS that allows you to build websites for any purpose. FreeOpen source	0.02%
34	Osclass Chtelnica, Slovakia An open-source classifieds script used to create, manage, and scale classifieds websites. FreeOpen source	0.02%
35	Ibexa DXP Oslo, Norway A technology platform that empowers businesses to create and manage content, deliver it across multiple channels, and personalize the customer experience. FreeOpen source€30,000+/year	0.02%
36	Payload CMS San Francisco, California, United States An open-source application framework and headless CMS built with Next.js that supports both self-hosting and cloud deployment. FreeOpen source	0.02%
37	Movable Type Tokyo, Japan A weblog publishing system written in Perl. FreeOpen source	0.02%
38	Orchard Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source content management system, the predecessor to Orchard Core. FreeOpen source	0.02%
39	Sulu Dornbirn, Austria An extensible open source content management system for building multilingual and multiportal websites based on PHP and the Symfony framework. FreeOpen source	0.02%
40	Bolt A fully open source, adaptable platform for building and running modern websites. FreeOpen source	0.01%
41	XpressEngine Seongnam, Korea A Korean open source content management system based on the Laravel framework and developed with the support of Naver. FreeOpen source	0.01%
42	Indexhibit An open-source CMS that is primarily used to create online portfolios. FreeOpen source	0.01%
43	Rhymix Daejeon, Korea A PHP-based open source content management system forked from XpressEngine. FreeOpen source	0.01%
44	dotCMS Miami, Florida, United States A scalable, Java-based, open source content management system. FreeOpen source$$$	0.01%
45	PyroCMS New York, United States A modular open source content management system built with PHP and Laravel. FreeOpen source	0.01%
46	BaserCMS An open-source content management system developed in Japan. FreeOpen source	0.01%
47	Orchard Core Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source, modular content management system and application framework built on ASP.NET Core that allows multiple sites to run from a single installation and supports both traditional and headless content delivery. FreeOpen source	0.01%
48	WebsiteBaker Mönchengladbach, Germany A German content management system based on PHP. FreeOpen source	0.009%
49	Apostrophe Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States An open-source full-stack content management system built with Node.js and MongoDB that can be used both as a traditional and headless CMS. FreeOpen source$199+/month	0.009%
50	Directus New York, United States An open-source headless CMS and data platform that lets developers build APIs from custom SQL data models while providing non-technical users with a friendly admin interface to manage structured content. FreeOpen source$$$	0.008%

Data is based on the analysis of 3,320,618 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.