OPEN SOURCE

The core, in the open.

Community Edition, a self-host path that takes minutes, and the MIT license — all on this page.

Community Edition · MIT licensed

odin-headless-cms-ce

Odin's foundation is open source. Self-host the editor, content pipeline and AI core on your own infrastructure — have a working newsroom in minutes.

BlockNote editor with inline AI assistance
UI-built content types, role-based permissions, REST & GraphQL APIs
Bring your own keys — OpenAI, Anthropic, or a self-hosted model

Self-host in minutes → Read the MIT license

~/odin-headless-cms-ce

$ cd odin-headless-cms-ce
$ docker compose up

✓ API     · http://localhost:3000
✓ Editor  · http://localhost:5173
✓ Mongo & Elasticsearch up

Self-host in minutes

Run it on your own stack.

No cloud lock-in. The Community Edition starts with Docker — editor, API, and data stores come up together.

Install Docker Desktop or Docker Engine on the host
Place the odin-headless-cms-ce package on the machine
From that folder, run docker compose up
Open the editor at localhost:5173 and the API at localhost:3000

compose

$ docker compose up

✓ API     · http://localhost:3000
✓ Editor  · http://localhost:5173
✓ Mongo & Elasticsearch up

Ready. Write the first story.

MIT license

Use it. Change it. Ship it.

Odin CMS Community Edition is released under the MIT License. You may use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and sell copies of the software, provided the copyright notice and permission notice are included.

LICENSE

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 AST Consulting

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