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Better is relative, but from Strapi and DatoCMS on the lower end to Contentful on the higher end, there's a whole lot of possibility outside of a first-generation, monolithic CMS like Drupal.

Drupal can do things, and in the hands of a developer who really knows the platform it can do things well. But I've been Drupal-adjacent for a decade and the vast majority of teams I've encountered landed on Drupal because a consultant they can no longer afford convinced them that it was the answer to all of their web publishing dreams and left them with hot mess. Especially in the civic and non-profit space the fact that Drupal powered the Obama campaign's web site kicked off a long era of cargo culting.

[colinjoy]

Self-hosted Drupal is an open source, community run project, that is free as in beer. A lot of headless CMS are SaaS products, it seems. Apples and oranges.

Is there a good resource listing/comparing the headless CMS options that are equally open and free as Drupal?

[btully]

To my knowledge, only Strapi CMS is comparatively free/open source headless CMS, in that it can be self-hosted and is not strictly SaaS. There's also a community of plugins, which also seem to be free/open source. Curious to hear of any others, as like you said, most are "freemium" SaaS products.

[kka]

I'm not familiar with all CMSs you mentioned but aren't they also monolithic (compared to microservices)?