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Strapi
Headless CMS for Node.js with a content-type builder, admin panel and REST and GraphQL APIs.
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Will it still be around?
Healthy
Score 98/100
Can a business use it freely?
Free core, paid extras
MIT · open source (permissive)
Flat Rate Deploy
A 25-seat team on Sanity Growth pays about $375 a month. Strapi on OpenTools costs $39 a month, setup included, so you save $336 a month, about $12,096 over three years.
Monthly cost
- Strapi on OpenTools
- $39
- Sanity
$375
You save each month
$336/mo
90% less than today
Saving from month one
You save
- Over 3 years
- $12,096
- In year one
- $4,032
List price checked 9 Oct 2026 · Source · Disclaimer
Health score: 98/100
Healthy · activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness, from GitHub
Score v2 · How it works
Activity
45% weight100/100
- Last commit yesterday (100/100).
- 1614 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- 50+ releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor
30% weight100/100
- Top contributor wrote 18% of the last 88 commits (past 12 months).
- 23 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness
25% weight92/100
- 98% of all issues are closed (219 open, 12091 closed) (100/100).
- 26 of 30 recent issues got a reply or were closed (87/100).
License
Free core, paid extras
MIT · Open source (permissive)
What you need to do
The core is free to use. Enterprise features, kept in a separately licensed part of the code, need a paid license in production.
For Strapi
The Community Edition is MIT; code under ee/ directories is the paid Enterprise Edition.
MIT (Community Edition) + Strapi Enterprise License · Open source (permissive). OSI-approved license with few conditions beyond keeping the copyright notice.
License text checked 2026-10-09 · Read it
GitHub activity
- Stars
- 73k
- Forks
- 9.9k
- Commits, 12 mo
- 1.6k
- last yesterday
- Releases, 12 mo
- 50+
- last 3 days ago
- Contributors
- 344
- 23 in last 88 commits
- Open issues
- 219
- 12k closed
Snapshot from 2026-10-09 · Funding: open collective
Top contributors
Points for pull requests merged into Strapi and reviews of them since 9 September 2026 (older history is still loading). Building something another user asked for earns more. 28 people have points on Strapi in all.
