payloadcms/payload vs tryghost/ghost
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, payload and ghost both show healthy maintenance signals. payload was committed to 3 weeks ago with 20+ active contributors, while ghost was committed to 4 days ago with 11+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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payloadcms/payload
Strong maintenance signals
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Scorecard: dangerous CI workflow (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓20 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 14% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
tryghost/ghost
Healthy across all four use cases
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓11 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 34% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| payload | ghost | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 44,363 | 55,292 |
| Last commit | 24d ago | 4d ago |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 1,068 | 189 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 54% | 59% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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